Lieutenant-Colonel C.C. Ferrie
Seaforth Highlanders of Canada

Our sergeants, as the Vimy Dinner night approached, looked for ways and means to put on their annual dinner. Rationing was in effect, as were strict regulations against the purchase of poultry and meats. They scurried around the countryside and located a farmer who would sell a young pig, at a price. It had to be very “hush, hush” … however, and could not be slaughtered on the premises.

The pig was collected in the vehicle. Then the fun began.

(Ferrie quoted in Roy, The Seaforth Highlanders, 79)

Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on 18 January 1895, Colin Campbell Ferrie enlisted with the 196th (Wester Universities) Battalion in April 1916, gained a commission one year later in England and joined the 72nd (Seaforth Highlanders) Battalion in France. He was wounded at Amiens on 11 August 1918 at the start of the Hundred Days campaign.

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