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About Sam Gloade
- Sergeant Sam Gloade (Glode), DCM (April 20, 1878 – October 25, 1957) was a decorated Mi'kmaq soldier from Milton, Nova Scotia.
- He served in World War I and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
- He trained first with the 64th Battalion, CEF, an infantry reinforcement holding unit in England, and then joined the 1st Canadian Tunnelling Company, Canadian Engineers.
- Sam was in the Battle of Messines (1917).
- He reported: Late that afternoon the German artillery on Messines Ridge began to shell our trench and kept it up for a long time.
- They scared us bad, I tell you.
- We were all green hands, and we would leave our rifles and run along the trench away from shell burst.
- Then another shell would burst near us and we would run down the trench again.
- Some fellows got hit and they hollered and there was a lot of blood.He dug trenches under Vimy Ridge, patched roadways near Amiens and defused mines after the war.
- On one occasion he was in charge of 20 soldiers who got trapped underground.
- He is credited with having single-handedly dug for hours before he was able to borrow a hole to the surface.
- He worked from the La Clytte Camp (close to Ypres in Belgium) for over a year.
- Glode was also in the Battle of Passchendaele and Battle of Amiens (1918). Gloade is buried in the St.
- Gregory's Roman Catholic Church Cemetery, Milton, Nova Scotia.
- His son Louis was a member of the Nova Scotia Highlanders and was wounded by a piece of shrapnel.
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