Riding into Battle

The untold story of how Canadian Cyclists came into their own during the Hundred Days campaign of the Great War.Canada s Cyclists spent most of the First World War digging trenches, patrolling roads, and delivering dispatches. But during the Hundred Days campaign at the end of the Great War, Canada s cycling troops finally came into their own. At Amiens, Cambrai, and especially the Pursuit from the Sensee, the Cyclists made pioneering contributions to the development of the Canadian Corps s combined arms strategy and mobile warfare doctrine, all the while exhibiting the consummate professionalism the Corps became renowned for.