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Lest we forget ...
The 196th Western Universities Battalion, No. 5 Platoon, pose for a photo in about 1916.
University Archives photo, A-1130
During the First World War, the University of Saskatchewan's first president, Walter Murray, wrote the following:
"The struggle in Europe is narrowing down not to a conflict between armaments, or money, or even between masses for food. The issue is being decided by manpower, by human hands directed by human minds and reinforced by human wills. In the last analysis it is man and not his possessions or his products that will decide the great issue.
"This University has contributed its quota - not of armament, not of money, not of military experience - but of men and boys, many of them not out of their teens. Over 320 have gone. Forty-two will not return; nearly seventy more have suffered wounds and many sickness. They are giving to humanity, to human freedom and human peace nothing but human life, the only priceless gift."
- University President's Report, 1917-18 by Walter C. Murray
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