1. The Memory of World War I And the Hughes/Currie battle

2. Currie/Hughes

3. The Attack on Mons, 11 November 1918 “Were I in authority, the officer, who four hours before the Armistice was signed...ordered the attack on Mons...would be tried summarily by court martial and punished so far as the law would allow.” Sam Hughes, House of Commons, March 1919

4. 1928: Currie Sues For Libel And wins But the trial comes at a physical cost Sir Arthur Currie dies (age 57) in 1933

5. How was the Great War Understood? Pointless ? “If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; Wilfrid Owen, “Dulce et Decorum est Pro Patria Mori”

6. Or as Noble? Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori –Homer, 27 BC –“It is sweet and seemly to die for one’s country.” The Myth of the War: –the myth of fallen; –the myth of nation-building; –the myth of pan-Canadian unity

7. The Memory of World War I “The Brooding Soldier” St. Julian, Belgium Sculptor: Frederick Chapman Clemesha Dedicated, 1923

8. Vimy Ridge, 1936 Walter Allward, Sculptor

9. Was the Great War rejected in the “popular memory” or embraced? Jonathan Vance, Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning and the First World War Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1997.