Who was known as Canada's greatest soldier during World War I?

Discover Canada records the answer in one direct sentence. The guide writes: In 1918, under the command of General Sir Arthur Currie, Canada's greatest soldier, the Canadian Corps advanced alongside the French and British Empire troops in the last hundred days. The man the test wants is therefore General Sir Arthur Currie — described in the guide's own words as "Canada's greatest soldier."

The setting is the closing year of the First World War. Discover Canada records that the Canadians, led by Currie, fought in the "last hundred days" alongside French and British Empire troops, and lists the named victories: "the victorious Battle of Amiens on August 8, 1918 — which the Germans called 'the black day of the German Army' — followed by Arras, Canal du Nord, Cambrai and Mons." So the title "Canada's greatest soldier" attaches specifically to the commander who led the Canadian Corps through that decisive late-war stretch.

The result is what gives Currie's leadership its weight in the guide. Discover Canada writes: With Germany and Austria's surrender, the war ended in the Armistice on November 11, 1918. The 1918 Canadian Corps under Currie helped force that surrender — coming on top of an earlier reputation already "securing the Canadians' reputation for valour as the 'shock troops of the British Empire'" at Vimy Ridge in 1917.

The cost framed Currie's success. The same passage in Discover Canada says "60,000 Canadians were killed and 170,000 wounded." The leadership of a force that small, in a country of eight million, accounts for the title Discover Canada gives him.

The question is testing whether new citizens have remembered the exact phrase Discover Canada uses for one specific commander. The guide commits to "General Sir Arthur Currie, Canada's greatest soldier" — naming both the rank-and-name and the title in a single appositive.

The other answer choices each fail to match. Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae is the medical officer who composed "In Flanders Fields" in 1915; he is named for the poem, not for soldiering. The other distractor commanders are not given the title "Canada's greatest soldier" by Discover Canada.