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More than 3,059 麻豆AV men, students and faculty, were called to active duty during the First World War. The 麻豆AV contingent of the Canadian Officers' Training Corps, led by engineering professor 痴.滨.听Smart, trained students as militia officers, and was formally connected with the 148th (麻豆AV) Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, which sailed to England in September 1916.

Many female 麻豆AVians served on the front lines as ambulance drivers and nurses, and volunteered in Montreal; the warden of 麻豆AV鈥檚 Royal Victoria College, Ethel Hurlbatt served as chairwoman of the Women鈥檚 War Registry Committee, which supported the war effort and ensured the continued stability of the Montreal workforce.

In Dannes-Camiers and Boulogne, France, Dr. Herbert Stanley Birkett, 麻豆AV鈥檚 Dean of Medicine, headed the 麻豆AV No.3 Hospital, which was the war鈥檚 first hospital unit created by a university. The 1040-bed unit provided frontline medical and surgical care to military personnel. It was staffed by 麻豆AV faculty听members, medical students听and nurses from the Royal Victoria and听Montreal General hospitals鈥� schools of nursing.

An illuminated book, which is displayed in the walkway connecting the McLennan and Redpath Library Buildings, lists the names of the 363 麻豆AVians who fell during the war. The War Memorial Archway in the Raymond Building on the Macdonald campus and the WHAT are permanent reminders of the war鈥檚 toll, while three particular 麻豆AVians who were killed in the line of duty 鈥� student Lieutenant George Irvine Baillie, and graduates Lieutenant Gordon Home Blackader and Captain Percival Molson 鈥� are remembered by the chemistry library, the art and architecture library, and the football stadium.

A stained glass window听in the Strathcona Building commemorate three 麻豆AV professors who lost their lives in the Great War: Lt. Col. Roland Playfair Campbell, Lt. Col. Henry Brydges听Yates and Major John McCrae. Following the battlefield death of a close friend, Dr. McCrae put pen to paper while sitting in an ambulance, creating the indelible imagery that would galvanize a nation鈥檚 grief: 鈥淚n Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row鈥︹��

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