(1) The colors of the 4Znd at Place Station, Montreal, on the day of the coming, » home. (2) Lt.-Col. G. 8. Cant} e, D.S.0., who took the 42nd-over--formerly df the C. P. R. (3) Pipers of the 42nd legd the Battalion in to Mons on the day the Armistice was (4): 42nd Highlanders) -f trainat Place Viger; t off the C. P. R. ontreal. (5) Home at last--42nd Highl Place Viger Station, Montreal: ders arrive at ) Originals of the 42nd Highlanders load the parade through Montreal, (7) Lt.Col. R. I. Ewing, M.C., DS.0, wh brought the 42nd home. (8) Half a million people welcomed the re. turning 42nd Highlanders to Montreal. Photos by courtesy of signed. . | working force and unti] Canadian Corps for ond to none amo Major Hooge, were its real b pt At the Somme notably ben and Zollern Trench e of the bloodi At Vimy ping off unit Highlander mage at Hill 7 Corps to Lens and when An came last year, the 42nd held in leash for a short time, broke through the left on the third day and completed the discomfiture of the Germans. In the battle for the Hindenburg line at Drocourt--Queant it took a mine but important part and when Ca brai was menaced by the Allies, the 42nd were the first to thrust om- selves into the town, having a race with a British Highland regiment driving the Huns from house to house and chalking up each street at it was taken so the Imperials would not capture it again" Valenciennes also figures on the esentcheon of this gallant battalion, which was the first to enter Mons on the day of the Armistice. When the Seventh Brigade of the Third Division was formed in, France on December 22, 1915, under Briga- dier-General A. C. Macdone!l now the commander of the Firat Division the 42nd Battalion had already been three months at the front, acting as an extra unit and taking an-aimost regular turn in the trenches. The battalion had been recruited and mo bilized In Montreal in February, 1915, and during its training In Canada it developed a splendid reputation for efficiency and smartness. After being attached to the First Division gs reserve in the Ploegsteert-Neuve Egliss area It join- ed the Seventh Brigade then about to take up its position on the south of he Ypres salient On arrival in front of Kemmel the battalion was sent into the line as a January 20th it was repairing, draining and building up sandbag defer at the same {ime patrolling long sections of trenches, being continually under the sniping fire from the enemy March 30th, after the battalion moved into the lime with the 48t%, relieving the Rritish 17th Brigade, which had saffsred Beavily. It was Mera that the Cana disns surprised the Germans by first using the Stokes mortar," tha Ger mane believing that the bombs whi: #ropped So accurately ia their trea. ll. mel five montha| & short rest, In| which more training was undergone,' flammenwe he defenders 1 the 45th maintained t In all the tacks at S the 8. In the r commander If an hour's delay would nave bee atal and annihilation of the rest pat- tallon. The lostes of the battalion at that time were p actieally 500 "men and fifty per but with no ms siderable time yed In the September Somme, From the 15th onwards for a month there came the 1 struggles for Coure switch lines. |The 42nd, with its bro ther battalions of the venth Bri. gade, moved up from U Hill through the ecrur olt trenches under 3 from the susplelous Ger It arrived on time and by it kept the Huns fully occupied the Second Division on the went after the famous sugar r and the beck Gral ridge whic} and the 42nd and Princ told off to take the Highlanders reached th ve in fifteen minues ary ba set In had established them es in the redoubl. Aun eitempt by the Roysi Canadian Regiment to go further and gain the Zo Trench was defeatad by heavy artillery fire and they too found themselves in the Faceck Gra ben. Later in the afternoon the 42nd drove forward In an attempt to take the Zotlern Trench but half way met a strong ccunterattack the Germans were Jaunching on Courcelette. This they broke b, on Zollern was stalemate, Heavy fighting before Regina Trench every day and night was the lot of the Highlanders until October 2nd, when the 42nd participsted in| the attack along the West Miranmont road, which it was hoped would give Us possession of Regina. The attack: failed, although the Highlanders held oa until compelied to fail back on! - . ie i lern by the ck of the battalion on their the Corps moved northward wag carri the 42nd 'par- Vimy objec. s to the right of ion reached this not favorable which was an three hours they that line weil cc of soners had fallen'to the kilted mea 1 Moritreal 1» they had casual All he day the 42nd i pn, 'suffe m an enfllading from Hill but never flinching, i t evening the Fourth Divi took the position that was 7, the 42nd Battalion found itse! h its division at Pas nda e Highlanders were Ode of the attacking units to the North East and after heavy fighting over > muddiest ground they had encountered, they were able to gain the main German trench Just outside the shattered village. It was the objective that was needed for the phase of the attack and on thelr relief by men of the First Division the cap ture of town which Imperial and Australians had attempted to take three times, was complete, In November, the battalion was! back again before Lens and later with the rest of the Corps, It faded into oblivien, that period when the Canadians underwent the open fight ing training which was later to stand them in such good stead. The day before the attack Amiens on Au Bust Sth, 1918, Highlanders were moved up to the support lines of the First Division, which was to have the homor of ju ping off. On the third day of the attack, when victory. Was £0 ete it needed vigorous following up to make it a rout for! the Germans, the Third Division with! It, the 42nd, went into the attack at Le Quesnoy. The village Was storm. ed and the thrust | landers took part after this was the. spearhead of the great battle, pleres ing the enemy's disorganized line for: several miles, Then came the breaking of the! Drocourt-Queant section of the Hf denburg system and again the High 2 TS Were at grips with the Huns | 2ine and St. Olles, two little villages strongly. held by the Huns, | i eir charges! On October Tut: rigade was in front of] ! and to the Highlanders went! T of being the first troops in 1e street fighting that! killed hundreds of Huns and cawe thréugh with light casual. ties. The battaifon was in the heavy Bghting at Tf plateau bey oy and the youd where the machine gun ne in their advance with the whippst tanks, - ! In what might be &alled the leisure. ly fighting to Valenciennes and Mons the Highitnders 41d their share but were In no particularly spectacular! fighting and when the armistice was declared they went forward gain at full streagth to hold thei- the Rhine, cleaned up scored of! . <