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CANADIAN TANK DRIVER WAS IN CAMBRAI FIGHT.

G. H. Merrick of Ottawa Was in Practically Every Battle.

St. John, N.B., Jan. 7 -- The first tank driver to return from the battlefield has reached here in the person of G. H. Merrick, of Ottawa. Driver Merrick took part in the big tank offensive at Cambrai. He is a member of the Imperial Army.

"I endeavored to enlist in the Canadian army at the outbreak of the war,' he told reporters, "but they refused to take me owing to my lack of height. I applied to the Imperial army and they accepted me. I crossed to England and was put on a tank after much training. It was my luck to become a tank driver in France and I was in practically every battle in which the tanks participated. In the big drive at Cambrai I was at the wheel, and we certainly did take the Germans by surprise."