BATUKDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1919, or NT THE The Canadian V.C.'s How Men From Canada Earned the Empire's Highest Tribute for Bravery in the - Field of Battle. i on the "Lucky Bald- | | win" estate in northern California. Sergt. Pay®eld enlisted with the British recrv'ting mission at Los An- eles, In July, 1917. On coming to Vancouver he was first pus into a for- | estry corps At his own request he! transferred +. the fighting ranks, and left Vancouver, December, 1917, with | {a draft to the 7th Battalion, reaching | France in Avril, 1918, i i (Registered accordir iright Act of Canada, was employ : to the Copy- ook rights re- For most conspicuous lravery, de votion to duty and initiative ducng the operations east of Arras, from 2nd to 4th Scptember, 1918, Ahead of ka company hs rushed a trench, occupied by a large party of the enemy, personalix-payoneting two and taking en prisoners. Later he located and engaged w.th great skill under constant rifle fre SERGT. W. L. RAYFIBLD, VC. an enemy sniper who was causing many casualties. He then rushed the section of trench from which the srupershad been operating snd so demotalized the enemy by his coolness ani daring that 30 others! surrend ved %> him. Again, recardless of his persons refety he leit cover under hea machine gun fire ~nd carried in a badly woundcd éomrade. His indomitable courage, cool fore- sight and dar'ng reconnaissance were and an inspistion to all ranks. By Carolyn Cornell. The Hacking Cough Strains The Lungs The terrible, hacking, lung-wrack- ing cough that sticks to you in spite of everything you have dons to get rid of it is a great source of danger to your health and the fonger it is allowed to stick the more serious the menace becomes. You can easily get rid of the cough or cold at its inception by us- ing Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup, a remedy that has been universally used throughout Canada for the past 30 years. - Mra. Samuel Matthews, Portage, P. BE. I, writes: Last winter I caught a heavy cold, and was laid up for sometime. J had such a hacking cough 1 could not sleep at night, and did not think-¥ could ever get over it. One day a friend dropped in to see me, and was surprised to see how bad my cough was. She advised me to use Dr. Wood's Norway Pine SyMiID, so the next day I sent for a bottle and soon got relief, and by the'time I 'had. taken two bottles, my cough tas all gone. 1 doubt there is argthing to equal it." Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup is put up in & yellow Wrapper; 3 pine trees the trade mark; price 28c. and G0e, Manufactured only dy The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. {_ Ahead of his! company ran Fte. invaluable to bis company commander | Rayfield, of the 7th Battalion. With 1a Official Record. [trench held in strength by a large] |rumber of men. | accounted The Canadians crossed the fats of (then ten others threw u }scathed, but the voice of & wounded zerved.) Liked the Old Way Best, i Every scientific management sharp butts up, sooner: or later, the human element. "Look hors, 1 ls, | ard established themselves | beyond, by the end of Monday, 2, when Canada was celebrating the national fabor Day her forees overseas began one of the hardest pieces of work ever it ndertaken «+ men anywhere or at| any time. The objective that day was | the Drocourt Queant line, running along the ridge east of the Canadians' pant, oN position. The Germans had fallen | 8878 Ses that: we Sense on the August, 1915 slope » DAILY BRITISH WHIG _ ANY BODY GOT AN (DEA STUFF, WHAT WE BETTER po~? RENT RUNNING ON~ JONN- WE SIMPLY against | | my man," § sclentific management tific method you actually chap sald to a hod-carrter, "iet me more bricks in the hod." show you how to pack those bricks know," sald the hod-carrier, "but in your hod. You don't place them like the old way best." Why? Grea You should do it this way. Caesar's ghost! Eight more brick: By this new scien- I tell you! rs hod's easier to carry the old way got eigh: . boss." Yes, Canada's net debt shows consider- * less increase in October than Why?" "Because tae *Heptember. Lack to this line after the Hinden- ; burg line had been pierced the week | before. The Br & position Between lordly avenu itish Columbia troops held r front of Vis-en-Artois. ved stumps of a once * trees the Aras. Cambrai roe y befure them over | the hill-top. ; fahtn had been | encountered iu wie lowlands in which | the Hun had left pockets of machine- | gunners to fight a rear-defence ac-| tion in their retreat The Western Canadians had cleaned out these gun posts and taken up a position on firm | yround for the "kick-off" that Mon-| day morning | A fog covered the slope before the | attacking troops when in the dim light | before dawn they stood with bayonets | fixed awaitins the moment of advance. | At 5 o'clock the artillery opened the] attack, the big naval guns far behind | the line exuctly timed so that their] shells fell at the same moment as those of the smaller and nearer guns. In hundred-yard strides the barrage spanned the distance between the in- fantry lines and the German line on| | the top of the hill which was to be 'taken that day. At the pistol erack the infantry rang from its lines and followed curtain of fire, drawing up in front of it gt attention until- the | | curtain lifted, then in the face of ter- trifle fire from the enémy trenches ent forward again. iv spring he was into the German Rayfleld's bayunet two of the enemy, their hands ond marched docilely back through the Canadien lines to the rear, The morning wore on. The fight left many dead and wounded on the hillside on which the autumn sun now shone down with a warm redi- ance. Unheedful of the beauty of the Artois landscape the grim warriors, with the top of the ridge before them, climbed on. fighting every step of the way. From one part of the enemy's trench a sniper was taking heavy toll of the passing troops. Rayfield tted him and shot him. He then Jfushed the trench from which the sniper had been operativg. His Cash and cool courage demuralized the garrison and 30 of the men surrendered to the Canadians oe ; The wave, of battle over the hill. Rayefield had come through un- foi face and He comrade reached lis ears. In of machine', 1iré he left cover carried in the wounded q seemed to hear a charmed life, for again he Jetutned Snharmed. Jot 18 courage ® service during, the three days of attack perior| cfficers recommended him for the Victoria Cross. Walter Legh Rayfield was born at Richmond-on- Surrey, -Eng. He came to Canada in 1891, When cuite young, and five years later went to New York State. Since time he hat travelled extensively «ver the United Stotes, making his I eadquarters most of the time on the Pacific Coast. He spent several years ii Washington state and during the two years previous to his enlistment ELC BUY TO-DA WHY NOT A LITTLE AD | "IN THE FOR RENT car "THATS EASY, ISN'T 17 w= AND-IT WILL DO THE Pre. Sims, a crippled veteran of] It is stated that falling Toronto, died as the result of a mo- | sight of Viscount Re British tor ambulance overturning. 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