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General Sir Arthur William Currie, GCMG, KCB (5 December 1875 – 30 November 1933) was a senior officer of the Canadian Army who fought during World War I. He had the unique distinction of starting his military career on the very bottom rung as a pre-war militia gunner before rising through the ranks to become the first Canadian ...
Sir Arthur William Currie (changed from Curry in 1897), soldier, educator (born 5 December 1875 in Adelaide (near Strathroy ), ON ; died 30 November 1933 in Montréal, QC ). Currie was the first Canadian commander of the Canadian Corps during the First World War (his predecessors were two British generals, E.A.H. Alderson and Sir Julian Byng ).
Battle of Mons. Battle of Passchendaele. World War I. Sir Arthur William Currie (born Dec. 5, 1875, Napperton, Ont., Can.—died Nov. 30, 1933, Montreal) was the first Canadian commander, from 1917, of Canada’s overseas forces in World War I. Currie taught school before going into business in Victoria, B.C.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Under Currie’s leadership, the Canadians cemented their reputation as an elite assault formation, with an unbroken string of major victories in 1917-1918 that included Hill 70, Passchendaele, Amiens, Arras, and the Canal du Nord. He is widely considered to have been among the finest generals of the war.
General Sir Arthur Currie, born December 5th, 1875, in Napperton, ON, would go on to become a monumental Canadian for his actions during the First World War. General Currie began his early life in the Canadian Militia where, for several years prior to the First World War, he honed his military knowledge and skills.
Canadians, whether they know it or not, have Sir Arthur Currie. Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Currie was made commander of the Canadian Corps in June 1917. Dr. Tim Cook’s bestselling new book, The Madman and the Butcher, details the war of wills between two of Canada’s military titans.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt1vxm9zt.16. The most important Canadian in the First World War, Arthur Currie was an extraordinary successful field commander in a war that produced few successful generals...
