Cousins
“I have always hoped and expected that the Marines would do their share and when the French say that we fight like our ‘Canadian Cousins’ it is praise of the highest sort. In other words a Marine is ace-high around here!”
June 1918, a US Marine writing to his mom about this experience in the Belleau Wood Battle. Dear Folks At Home – Photo: A US soldier meets a Canadian Hightlander. Note: The Canadian Highlander regiments were in the United States in July of 1917 for “British Recruiting Week” which encouraged enlistment in WW1. See photo of Canadian Highlanders in NYC @ the US WWI Centennial Commission’s Instagram and on YouTube.
Our Canadian Cousins

















