Excerpt from Memorial of the Great War, 1914-1918: A Record of Service "Courage - 'Tis the mysterious soul which never yields, But hales us on and on to breast the rush Of all the fortunes we shall happen through, And when Death calls across his shadowy fields, Dying, it answers 'Here - I am not dead.'" Galsworthy This book has been conceived, executed and sent forth as a tribute to those "gentlemen unafraid" of the Bank of Montreal who deliberately closed their ledgers, laid aside pen and pencil, left the calm routine of a great institution, the security of a well-ordered business life, and went forth with sublime courage, not only to endure the disheartening and glamour-dispelling weeks of preliminary training that was necessarily the portion of our noble volunteers, but to face the most relentless and ingeniously evil foe that ever menaced civilization. For more than one hundred years the Bank of Montreal has expanded without weakening in the process of expansion, and this successful development has been characterized and sustained by an individual spirit of unselfish devotion and a subordination of personal ambition that have long since become traditional. When the time of national trial arrived it was these qualities, united with a fearless patriotism and a hatred of evil, that sent, as if inspired, four teen hundred and nine members of our staff to fight for King and Empire. 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.