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Excerpt from Letters From the Front, Vol. 1: Being a Record of the Part Played by Officers of the Bank in the Great War, 1914-1919 The fervour evidenced throughout Canada in the early days of the war was infinitely more than the flag waving and the patriotic exercises of peaceful times; it was a heartfelt desire to be at one with the motherland in sacrifice and in the service of right. Nowhere in the Dominion was the call of duty more resonantly heard than in the Canadian banks. From our own institution 460 of our best young men went forth in the first year of fighting, and all through the war. when a steady stream of recruits was needed to give Canada's effort in France and Flanders its required strength, the efflux from The Canadian Bank of Commerce continued in full measure until over 1,700 men had enlisted from our service. This gradual depletion of our staff of men presented a problem hitherto unknown, and in the case of the banks, as in that of all of Canada's organizations of commerce and industry, the women of our kind came to the rescue. Right nobly did they buckle to their tasks, and through their devoted labours our young men were freed for active service, and the business of a nation at war went on. The idea of permanently recording the war service of the staff of The Canadian Bank of Commerce was conceived by Mr. Charles Lyons Foster, Staff Inspector. 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.