Introduction

Thousands of wives and mothers are scanning the news from France today; many thousand more Western wives and mothers are waiting for that sudden leap of heart to throat—that black pall that will come before the eyes with the news - “The Second Contingent is leaving for the Front;” “Our boys are going away to a foreign land to fight our battles.”—Some of them will not come back - many of them, probably, for this is the most murderous war in history. Can we do too much for them? This book is just a record of faces. One face, gazing bravely somewhere from the mass—to be looked at and treasured by a mother, a family, or wife, or sweetheart, or friend; and the mass itself to be looked at with the pride of National courage, by the people of Western Canada.

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