Sounds good to me.. I probably wouldn't have thought of it myself off the top off my head, as it's more a french (as in from France) idiom than a french-canadian one, but I do believe it's pretty widely used there, and even more so back then. That's my (slight) problem when it comes to idioms, such things vary a lot even in the same language. It would be like an american trying to speak like a brit, or an aussie. The language is basically the same, but the expressions change a lot.
That was interesting about the rankings in the legion, and the lack of officers. I like learning about stuff like that. I learned recently, for example, that a lot of career military people got promoted pretty darn quick during WWII, mostly in order to fill in positions with the huge influx of draftees and what not, only to go back to their previous ranks (or one step above) once the military went back to peace-time strenght. I also learned the difference (in the Marine Corps, at least) between saying "yes sir" and "aye, aye, sir".
