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March 2002 CANADIAN WW-I VETERAN LAST POST : Robert Peterson has died. Mr Peterson was one of the original members of the 202nd Infantry Battalion, also known as the Edmonton Sportsmen's Battalion. He was just 19 when he saw action in the bloody battle for Vimy Ridge in April 1917. Post war, he worked as a printer for the Edmonton Journal and in 1938 moved to Cowichan on Vancouver Island where he worked as press foreman of the Cowichan Leader. Three years ago Mr Peterson received the Legion of Honour medal from France as part of a programme to honour Allied veterans on the 80th anniversary of the Armistice. Mr Peterson leaves a son, a daughter, five grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. Robert Alfred Talbot Peterson died March 1, 2002 at age 103. LEST WE FORGET

The following poem was recently composed by Mr. Stan Scislowski of Ontario. A veteran with a most honourable record with the Perth Regiment. Private Scislowski fought with the Perths throughout the bitter Italian campaign.
In addition to having written a most interesting account of his experience, "Not All of Us Were Brave"- (Dundurn Press), he has recently composed the following poem, submitted by Gavin Watt of the Perth Regiment Living History Museum, (see links)

Night Guard at the Front

The night is long, and darker than a dark
My eyes had ever known before.
Fear rises in me and grows with every trifling sound.
This dark hole in which I stand, I fear
Will be my grave before the grey coming of the dawn.

The tall stack of hay behind me, I'm afraid
Might be the torch that burns my flesh,
And when the flames die down,
Will leave nothing but my dusty ash

Fear, greater than all the fears my young life has known
Takes hold of every single fibre and sinew
Of this young and virile body of mne
It grows and grows and I'm afraid will consume me,
As I stand all alone in this forbidding dark.

As the hours creep slowly by one behind the other,
I find I'm only a shell, still pulsing, though empty,
Empty of what it takes to be a man,
The soldier I had always wanted to be.