Snipers Remembered

A look back at two of the most prolific snipers in the history of combat. Francis Pegahmagabow has long been considered the most prolific killing machine of the First World War as he has been credited with over 378 deaths. Working as both a sniper and scout, the Canadian/British Army allowed him to roam freely throughout the "No Man's Land" region of France where he took down German troops working by himself. Despite his heroics, he would later suffer from "shell shock" (now known as post-traumatic stress disorder) and was deemed a "mental case" by the local Indian agents who oversaw his tribal band.Billy Sing was a Chinese Australian soldier who served in the Australian Imperial Force during World War I, and best known as a sniper during the Gallipoli Campaign.He took at least 150 confirmed kills during that campaign, and may have had over 200 kills in total. He miraculously survived both the Gallipoli Campaign and the Western Front only to come home to die as a broken and forgotten hero.