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Excerpt from Our Absent Hero: Poems in Loving Memory of Captain William Arthur Peel Captain 58th Battalion, Peel Captain Durie, to whom this volume is reverently dedicated, was killed in action December 29th, 1917, while his battalion was holding the line at St.' Emile, near Lens, France. On the evening of October 26th, 1917, during the attack at Passchendaele, after heavy fighting throughout the day, he went five times through drum-fire to save the wounded, who had lain since the early morning on the field: an incident that will be for ever associated with his name. No eulogy of his 'life would be complete that did not place emphasis on his fearlessness in action, his devotion to duty and his gallantry in the field. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.