According to the article: > One theory was that Canadians were perpetually avenging the “Crucified Canadian,” a battlefield rumour of a captured Canadian offic

According to the article: > One theory was that Canadians were perpetually avenging the “Crucified Canadian,” a battlefield rumour of a captured Canadian officer that Germans had supposedly crucified to a barn door near Ypres. The crucifixion was almost certainly fabricated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crucified_Soldier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crucified_Soldier