Gen. Sir Arthur Currie Meets Last Casualty

Intro to Recollections

With the presence of mind of an officer who was awarded the VD and was later the Commanding Officer of the Elgin Regiment, Lt. Col. Warren Andrews recorded his encounter with General Sir Arthur Currie, Commander of Canadian Troops and Kenneth Lawrence the last Canadian casualty of the Great War.  The occasion was a celebratory dinner for thousands in St. Thomas, Ontario in 1921. The encounter did not begin well.

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