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image The British Ambulance Service
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Image from Nelson's Portfolio of War Pictures: No 4: Though motor ambluances are largely used in the rpesent war, the old-fashioned four-hourse Red Cross wagon is by no means superannuated. It is still used mainly for transferring the wounded from the actual fighting line and the dressinf stations immediately to the rear to the base, whwere smooth-travelling motors are assembled to convey the patients to the nearest hospital."

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image The Camosun 1916 Service Roll, page 1
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Service Roll from the Victoria High School publication The Camosun: The following is a partial list of Victoria High School graduates who are fighting at the front or have left the province to go to the front [including casualities and prisoners of war, if known]

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image The Camosun, 1916 Service Roll, page 2
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Service Roll from the Victoria High School publication The Camosun. The roll concludes with the quote:
this England never did, nor never shall / Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror ... - King John


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image The Camosun, Service Roll, 1917, page 1
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Service Roll, Victoria High School publication The Camosun; the list includes masters, nurses and students, and notes those killed in action.
The following is of necessity only a partial list of those high school masters and students who are either serving at the front or prearing to take their places there.


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image The Colonist,Service Roll, page 2
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Victoria High School publication The Camosun Service Roll for 1917 lists over 400 names.

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image "Canadian Troops Waiting to go into the Firing Line,"Canada in Khaki
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Image from Canada in Khaki.
See link above to read Canada in Khaki online (via Internet Archive)


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image "Canadians at Rest Behind the Lines on the Somme / An Early Morning Shave," Canada in Khaki
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Image from Canada in Khaki.
See link above to read Canada in Khaki online (via Internet Archive)


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image Nelson's Portfolio of War Pictures: No 4, cover
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Each issue of Nelson's Portfolio of War Pictures issue covered a single theme on the war, usually chosen relating to geographical location, with approximately 30 pages of photographs, illustrations and text.

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image The Camosun, December 1917, cover
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Victoria High School publication The Camosun

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