The other two civilians were a London chartered accountant and a Canadian volunteera young Oxford manwaiting for his regiment.

In a speech that he made before the whole army at Boulogne he said: "In France everybody is brave; so the civilian who does a noble deed shall be the brother of the soldier, and they shall stand together under the flag of honor."

Civilians were ciphers in the new order, and if it served any military purpose to dump us into the river, in we would have gone with no questions asked.

To them every civilian was a possible spy.

Sir Robert Borden is the central figure of the seated row, and the other civilian in the picture is Mr. Calder.