Mentioned in Despatches Lieutenant Allen Otty and the 5th CMR. at Passchendaele, 30 October 1917
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A bstract: A recip ien t o f the V ictoria Cross fo r his actions at P a ssch en d a ele, M a jor George R .P ea rkes of the 5th CMR has been credited with turning a disastrous advance into a highly effective defence.R arely m en tioned in the B a ttle of Vapour F a rm , however, was the sim ultaneous attack by L ieu ten a n t A llen O tty on a critica l G erm an pillbox only 200 yards away.W hile P e a r k e s' leadership may have saved the day fo r the C an ad ia ns, it was O tty who saved P earkes by securin g the Canadian fla n k and elim inating as many as five enem y m achine guns.T his article exam ines that fa tefu l engagem ent fro m the p oin t o f view o f a sold ier who was ultim ately rejected fo r the E m p ir e 's highest award.U I u n d e r sta n d t h a t you are now selecting officers for the training of conscripts under the Military Service A ct," wrote Norval O tty to Lieutenant-Colonel James McAvity on 31 October 1917.Only days into the Passchendaele campaign that so captivated Canadian readers, O tty was clearly concerned for the safety of his son, Lieutenant Allen O tty of the 5th Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles (cmr), and begged the officer appointed to train New Brunswick's Depot Battalion to bring his son home from the Front."He is our only son, and his mother and I would both be glad to see him home again for a while."1Little did he know that the 5th cmr were already hours into 1 New Brunswick Museum (Archives and Research) [NBM], Marianne Gray Otty Papers, F14-9, Norval Otty to Lieutenant-
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.106 | 0.024 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".