Quote Originally Posted by ThistleDown View Post
You are referring to the Reel of the 51st, Canuck. It was created in a POW camp by officers of the 51st Highland Regiment captured during their defense of troops retreating after Dunkirk. Not, in other words, by the CEF.

Canadian forces are in Kandahar along with those of six other nations, and have lost lives disproportionate to their numbers, but the Kandahar Reel was invented by the Black Watch of the RROS, not by the Canadian Black Watch regiment.
OK I am forced to admit defeat of the Canadian invention idea and also to contratulate the UK officers on their fine development. If I misheard "Ross Highlanders" for "51st Highlanders" than anything certainly becomes possible- must be that quinine-based tonic water that came up on another note string (quinine allegedly causes deafness, even when mixed with heathful gin).