View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Wilfrid Laurier University Canadian Military History Volume 11 | Issue 3 Article 5 1-20-2012 Death at Licourt: An Historical and Visual Record of Five Fatalities in the 1st Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade, 25 March 1918 Cameron Pulsifer Canadian War Museum Recommended Citation Pulsifer, Cameron (2002) "Death at Licourt: An Historical and Visual Record of Five Fatalities in the 1st Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade, 25 March 1918," Canadian Military History: Vol. 11: Iss. 3, Article 5. Available at: http://scholars.wlu.ca/cmh/vol11/iss3/5 This Canadian War Museum is brought to you for free and open access by Scholars Commons @ Laurier. It has been accepted for inclusion in Canadian Military History by an authorized administrator of Scholars Commons @ Laurier. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Pulsifer: Death at Licourt Death at Licourt An Historical and Visual Record of Five Fatalities in the 1st Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade, 25 March 1918 Cameron Pulsifer ajor William Battersby, advanced closest to the canal, had no Mcommander of "A" Battery of the time even to turn around and were 1st Canadian Motor Machine Gun forced to back down the road in column. Brigade, waited anxiously at Cizancourt Battersby's car was the last to leave and on the west bank of the Somme Canal hence the closest to the enemy assault. in France as the sky cleared in the early Inside were Battersby, 36 years old, morning of 25 March 1918.