Tier 1 — Direct factual lookup (10 questions)
Tests basic retrieval: does the right chunk come back for a clear factual query?

What unit was the Calgary Highlanders' Dog Coy attacking on 15 September 1944, and what was the location?
Who signed the 5 CIB war diary for September 1944?
On what date did the Calgary Highlanders force the Albert Canal crossing?
What was the grid reference of the lock gates the Calgary Highlanders crossed at on 22 September 1944?
Who was singled out for distinction during the Albert Canal crossing, and what coy/platoon were they in?
What was the date of the Dieppe march past attended by the Calgary Highlanders?
What was the Black Watch's location at the start of September 1944 (per the cover sheet)?
How many German prisoners did the Calgary Highlanders take on 14 September 1944 in the action toward Fme Geersen?
What was the H-hour given in the Black Watch field message of 10 September 1944, 0025 hrs?
What route was issued under 5 CIB Mov Order No 5 on 1 September 1944?


Tier 2 — Cross-document synthesis (10 questions)
Tests whether the system can combine information from multiple sources to answer a single question.

Compare the Calgary Highlanders and Black Watch officer strength at the start and end of September 1944. What does the trend suggest?
On 22 September 1944, the Calgary Highlanders were ordered to take over a crossing the Black Watch had failed to make. What did the Black Watch war diary say about that failed attempt?
What does the 5 CIB war diary narrative say about the Calgary Highlanders' actions on 7–10 September 1944, and how does it compare to the Calgary Highlanders' own narrative for those dates?
Which battalion in 5 CIB had the highest other-rank strength in the week ending 9 September 1944?
Trace the movement of 5 CIB from Totes to the Dunkerque outpost line using the Move Orders (No 4, 5, 6, 7) and the brigade narrative.
What enemy defences were the Calgary Highlanders likely to encounter at Bourbourgville based on the SHAEF and APIS traces in the Black Watch and brigade files?
On 5 September 1944, what was 5 CIB's planned route at the divisional level (per the 2 Cdn Inf Div Route Card) and how does it compare to the brigade's own Mov Order No 6?
Identify all the locations mentioned in any 5 CIB document for the date 1 September 1944. What movement is implied?
Which sister battalion was closest to the Calgary Highlanders' position on 9 September 1944?
What casualties did 5 CIB units sustain in the first ten days of September 1944, and where would that information be found?


Tier 3 — Operational and tactical reasoning (10 questions)
Tests whether the system can answer questions that require understanding military context, not just text retrieval.

What was 5 CIB's tactical role between 1 and 10 September 1944 — exploitation, set-piece attack, defensive holding, or something else? Cite evidence.
Where was the Calgary Highlanders' advance party on 16–18 September 1944, and what does that suggest about brigade movement plans?
What was the significance of the Calgary Highlanders crossing at Fort 1 on the Albert Canal rather than at the original Black Watch crossing point?
Based on the patrol activity recorded around Loon Plage 9–13 September 1944, what was the tactical situation?
What artillery support was available to the Calgary Highlanders during the Bourbourgville–Loon Plage operations? Where would that be documented?
The 5 CIB war diary for September mentions "Dunkerque outpost line." What does that mean operationally, and which 5 CIB documents add detail to that picture?
Why did the Calgary Highlanders move from France to Belgium between 18–19 September 1944, and what was the operational objective?
What evidence exists in the brigade and battalion war diaries for the strength and quality of the German garrison the Calgary Highlanders were facing in early September 1944?
Was the Calgary Highlanders' advance from Bourbourgville to Loon Plage opposed, lightly opposed, or heavily opposed? Cite specific document evidence.
What changes in unit identifications from PW interrogations (per the GO-1 ISUM) might have affected 5 CIB's understanding of the enemy in early September 1944?


Tier 4 — Reinforcement / personnel queries (5 questions)
Tests the "His War" use case directly — reconstructing what an individual soldier would have experienced.

A reinforcement arriving at the Calgary Highlanders on or about 1 September 1944 would have been part of which company actions in the following ten days? Walk through what they would have experienced day by day.
What named reinforcements arrived at the Calgary Highlanders during 16–17 September 1944?
If a soldier joined the Calgary Highlanders as a reinforcement in late August 1944, what was the strength of the battalion when they arrived (per the field returns), and how did it change over September?
What activities did the Calgary Highlanders conduct that were not direct combat operations during 1–10 September 1944 (parades, baths, religious services, etc.)?
A Calgary Highlanders soldier killed or wounded on 8 September 1944 at Bourbourgville would have their casualty recorded in which document(s), and on what dates would those documents have been filed?


Tier 5 — Stress tests and adversarial queries (5 questions)
Tests failure modes — does the system hallucinate when the answer isn't in the corpus, or does it correctly say "I don't know"?

What were the Régiment de Maisonneuve's casualties on 8 September 1944? (R de Mais inventory not provided in pilot — system should say it doesn't have that source, not invent an answer.)
What did General Crerar say in his speech at the Dieppe march past? (Speech text is not in the inventory; the march past is mentioned but the speech content isn't. Correct answer: "not in available sources.")
What was the weather on 7 September 1944 at Bourbourgville? (May or may not be in the war diaries; system should answer from source if present, otherwise say so — not pull from external knowledge.)
Who commanded the German garrison at Dunkerque in September 1944? (Likely not in 5 CIB sources; tests whether system stays within corpus or hallucinates from training data.)
What does the war diary say about Calgary Highlanders operations on 5 October 1944? (October is in scope for the pilot but not yet inventoried in our session — tests whether system handles dates within scope but in un-verified portions of the corpus.)