[Illustration: Map]
FROM THE VOSGES MOUNTAINS TO YPRES
Map showing the Northeastern frontiers of France, and neutral Belgium
through which the German armies poured in 1914. The battle line held
straight from Belfort to Verdun, with the exception of the St. Mihiel
salient. Above Verdun the line veered to the west, north of Rheims,
marking a wide curve toward St. Quentin and Arras and bending back to
Ypres, held by the Canadians throughout the war.
The work of the Canadian Red Cross Society included the building and
equipping of auxiliary hospitals to those of the Canadian Army Medical
Corps; providing of extra and emergency stores of all kinds, recreation
huts, ambulances and lorries, drugs, serums and surgical equipment
calculated to make hospitals more efficient; the looking after the
comfort of patients in hospitals providing recreation and entertainment
to the wounded, and dispatching regularly to every Canadian prisoner
parcels of food, as well as clothes, books and other necessaries: The
Canadian Red Cross expended on goods for prisoners in 1917 nearly
$600,000.
In all the Canadian Red Cross distributed since the beginning of the war
to November 23, 1918, $7,631,100.
The approximate total of voluntary contributions from Canada for war
purposes was over $90,000,000.
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