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MANY N.B. MEN ARE INSPECTED
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Lt.-Gen. McNaughton Sees 3rd Division Units in Daily Routine
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SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND, Sept. 9 (Canadian Press) - Well-satisfied with what he saw in a day-long inspection of 3rd Canadian Division units, Lt. Col. A.G.L. McNaughton, Canadian Corps commander, predicted that the latest troops to arrive from Canada
will soon be ready to take their place beside units of the 1st and 2nd divisions. The general, accompanied by Maj.-Gen. C.B. Price, divisional commander, spent a morning with two infantry brigades and the afternoon with divisional signallers, two field
regiments of the Royal Canadian Artillery and the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps.
The general inspected a French-Canadian unit from Quebec, saw a company commanded by Maj. Paul Mathieu of Quebec training with rifles and spoke to Pte. M. Heut from the Magdalen Islands who was operating a Bren gun.
Members of a New Brunswick regiment were on reconnaissance duty getting information about the district and learning how to send it back. With the C.O. and the acting second in command, Maj. J. A. MacNaughton of Black River Bridge, N.B., Gen. McNaughton
tramped through woods to inspect groups receiving instruction from Lieutenants R.H. O’Brien of Dalhousie, N.B., and W.R. Pell of Newcastle N.B.
The morning inspection ended with a visit to a Nova Scotia unit where C.S.M. Joseph Henry of Springhill, N.S., and Sgt. J. Herwell, River Hebert, N.S., were putting a company through bayonet drill.
Other members of the unit were studying first aid under the medical officer, Capt. W.S. Gilchrist of Pictou, N.S.
After watching a group of soldiers bind Pte. J. R. O'Hanley of Mount Stewart, P.E.I. to a stretcher made from rifles, the general remarked that "we fight in small packets these days and when you get hit it's comforting to know that the other fellow can
fix you up."
At the field ambulance, a number of men who had arrived from Canada only the day before inspected, include Ptes. Gordon Abrams, George Wilson and Arthur Waters, all Moncton, N.B., Pte. John Vautour, Saint John, N.B., and Pte. Beverley Munroe, Sussex,
N.B.
Staff Sgt. Fred B. Doyle, former railwayman from Charlottetown, thought he had done something wrong when the general singled him out after watching a stretcher drill in gas masks but said later "all he wanted to know was where I came from and what I did
before I joined the army."
The inspected ended at headquarters of the R.C.A.S.C. where a group of officers, including Maj. J.R.W.T. Bessonette of Halifax were introduced.
