Letters Of A Canadian Stretcher Bearer

Author : Anon - R.A.L.
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782893066

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Letters Of A Canadian Stretcher Bearer by Anon - R.A.L. Pdf

The witty, bitter and caustic memoirs of an anonymous Canadian stretcher-bearer who served during some of the fiercest fighting on the Western Front in 1916 and 1917 before being invalided back to his native land. “FOR military reasons, it has been judged wiser to withhold the full name of the Canadian Stretcher Bearer until the close of the war. “However, it may interest his readers to know that he is an Old Country-man, although he is now in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and earlier had lived in the States. On the 31st May, 1915, he enlisted. Six weeks later, with the earliest of our letters, we find him in England, and rebelling against the unsatisfactory nature of service in what he caustically terms a Safety-First battalion. It was only a matter of time, however, before he caused himself to be transferred to hospital service, crossing to France to take a place as orderly in No. 3 Canadian General Hospital at Boulogne, where he arrived early in 1916. From that time on until the 23rd August, 1917, when he was gassed and sent to Blighty, the story has been left entirely in his own hands, to tell it as convincingly as may be. “Since then, he has been, first in hospital in England, then in the First Reserve Battalion, awaiting the call back to service in the trenches. “This call, however, is sounding fainter and more remote. A cable has been received, this morning, saying that he is being sent back to Canada, his active service at an end.” OTTAWA, Fifth December, 1917

Author : R. A. L.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033490806

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LETTERS OF A CANADIAN STRETCHER BEARER by R. A. L. Pdf

Author : Ralph B. Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 0659104350

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Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer by Ralph B. Watson Pdf

Author : R A L
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1016322488

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Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer by R A L Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : R. A. L.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1331328934

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Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer (Classic Reprint) by R. A. L. Pdf

Excerpt from Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer For military reasons, it has been judged wiser to withhold the full name of the Canadian Stretcher Bearer until the close of the war. However, it may interest his readers to know that he is an Old Country-man, although he is now in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and earlier had lived in the States. On the 31st May, 1915, he enlisted. Six weeks later, with the earliest of our letters, we find him in England, and rebelling against the unsatisfactory nature of service in what he caustically terms a Safety-First battalion. It was only a matter of time, however, before he caused himself to be transferred to hospital service, crossing to France to take a place as orderly in No. 3 Canadian General Hospital at Boulogne, where he arrived early in 1916. From that time on until the 23rd August, 1917, when he was gassed and sent to Blighty, the story has been left entirely in his own hands, to tell it as convincingly as may be. Since then, he has been, first in hospital in England, then in the First Reserve Battalion, awaiting the call back to service in the trenches. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Anna Chapin Ray,Little Brown & Company
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1010431412

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Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer by Anna Chapin Ray,Little Brown & Company Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Anna Chapin 1865 Ray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1374067741

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LETTERS OF A CANADIAN STRETCHE by Anna Chapin 1865 Ray Pdf

Author : R. A. L.
Publisher : T. Allen
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Hospitals
ISBN : UOM:39015047784098

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Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer by R. A. L. Pdf

Author : Charles Horton
Publisher : Lion Books
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780745955667

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Stretcher Bearer! by Charles Horton Pdf

Among the thousands of men who shivered and suffered in the trenches during the First World War, some did not even have the protection of a weapon. Members of the Royal Army Medical Corps (the RAMC) were there not to take lives, but to save them. Many chose this difficult and dangerous work because of their principles - including volunteer Charles Horton, who went through the horrors of Passchendaele, Ypres and the Somme, fighting to get the injured away from the guns, to the safety of the field hospitals and beyond. After the war, Horton felt that the RAMC and their sacrifices were forgotten, and so in 1970 he wrote down his memories. In this glorious book, full of first hand detail, he takes us back to the trenches in France and the mountains of Italy. This is a wonderful authentic account into one man's struggle to survive - and to keep others alive. With the approval of Horton's family, author Dale le Vack has edited Horton's journals for clarity, and added more text to provide background. The result is a superb memoir of one of the darkest periods in history.

Author : Martha Hanna
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228004592

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Anxious Days and Tearful Nights by Martha Hanna Pdf

What was it like to be a soldier's wife in Canada during the First World War? More than 80,000 Canadian women were married to men who left home to fight in the war, and its effects on their lives were transformative and often traumatic. Yet the everyday struggles of Canadian war wives, lived far from the battlefields of France, have remained in the shadows of historical memory. Anxious Days and Tearful Nights highlights how Canadian women's experiences of wartime marital separation resembled and differed from those of their European counterparts. Drawing on the letters of married couples separated by wartime service and the military service records of hundreds of Canadian soldiers, Martha Hanna reveals how couples used correspondence to maintain the routine and the affection of domestic life. She explores how women managed households and budgets, how those with children coped with the challenges of what we today would call single parenthood, and when and why some war wives chose to relocate to Britain to be nearer to their husbands. More than anything else, the life of a war wife - especially a war wife separated from her husband for years on end - was marked and marred by unrelieved psychological stress. Through this close personal lens Hanna reveals a broader picture of how war's effects persist across time and space.

Author : Brian Douglas Tennyson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810886803

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The Canadian Experience of the Great War by Brian Douglas Tennyson Pdf

Although the United States did not enter the First World War until April 1917, Canada enlisted the moment Great Britain engaged in the conflict in August 1914. The Canadian contribution was great, as more than 600,000 men and women served in the war effort—400,000 of them overseas—out of a population of 8 million. More than 150,000 were wounded and nearly 67,000 gave their lives. The war was a pivotal turning point in the history of the modern world, and its mindless slaughter shattered a generation and destroyed seemingly secure values. The literature that the First World War generated, and continues to generate so many years later, is enormous and addresses a multitude of cultural and social matters in the history of Canada and the war itself. Although many scholars have brilliantly analyzed the literature of the war, little has been done to catalog the writings of ordinary participants: men and women who served in the war and wrote about it but are not included among well-known poets, novelists, and memoirists. Indeed, we don’t even know how many titles these people published, nor do we know how many more titles were added later by relatives who considered the recollections or collected letters worthy of publication. Brian Douglas Tennyson’s The Canadian Experience of the Great War: A Guide to Memoirs is the first attempt to identify all of the published accounts of First World War experiences by Canadian veterans.

Author : Tim Cook
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735235274

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The Secret History of Soldiers by Tim Cook Pdf

There have been thousands of books on the Great War, but most have focused on commanders, battles, strategy, and tactics. Less attention has been paid to the daily lives of the combatants, how they endured the unimaginable conditions of industrial warfare: the rain of shells, bullets, and chemical agents. In The Secret History of Soldiers, Tim Cook, Canada's foremost military historian, examines how those who survived trench warfare on the Western Front found entertainment, solace, relief, and distraction from the relentless slaughter. These tales come from the soldiers themselves, mined from the letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral accounts of more than five hundred combatants. Rare examples of trench art, postcards, and even song sheets offer insight into a hidden society that was often irreverent, raunchy, and anti-authoritarian. Believing in supernatural stories was another way soldiers shielded themselves from the horror. While novels and poetry often depict the soldiers of the Great War as mere victims, this new history shows how the soldiers pushed back against the grim war, refusing to be broken in the mincing machine of the Western Front. The violence of war is always present, but Cook reveals the gallows humour the soldiers employed to get through it. Over the years, both writers and historians have overlooked this aspect of the men's lives. The fighting at the front was devastating, but behind the battle lines, another layer of life existed, one that included songs, skits, art, and soldier-produced newspapers. With his trademark narrative abilities and an unerring eye for the telling human detail, Cook has created another landmark history of Canadian military life as he reveals the secrets of how soldiers survived the carnage of the Western Front.

Author : Hugh Gray (writer on Canada.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1809
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600018439

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Letters from Canada, written during ... 1806, 1807, and 1808 by Hugh Gray (writer on Canada.) Pdf

Author : Tim Cook
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774841801

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No Place to Run by Tim Cook Pdf

Historians of the First World War have often dismissed the important role of poison gas in the battles of the Western Front. Tim Cook shows that the serious threat of gas did not disappear with the introduction of gas masks. By 1918, gas shells were used by all armies to deluge the battlefield, and those not instructed with a sound anti-gas doctrine left themselves exposed to this new chemical plague.This book provides a challenging re-examination of the function of gas warfare in the First World War, including its important role in delivering victory in the campaign of 1918 and its curious postwar legacy.

Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783037230

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Vimy by Pierre Berton Pdf

The bestselling, award-winning author of The American Invasion of Canada “has given great drama and immediacy to that turning point in Canadian history” (Maclean’s). On Easter Monday 1917 with a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France seized and held the best-defended German bastion on the Western Front—the muddy scarp of Vimy Ridge. The British had failed to take the Ridge, and so had the French who had lost 150,000 men in the attempt. Yet these magnificent colonial troops did so in a morning at the cost of only 10,000 casualties. The author recounts this remarkable feat of arms with both pace and style. He has gathered many personal accounts from soldiers who fought at Vimy. He describes the commanders and the men, the organization and the training, and above all notes the thorough preparation for the attack from which the British General Staff could have learned much. The action is placed within the context both of the Battle of Arras, of which this attack was part, and as a milestone in the development of Canada as a nation. “This wonderful book brings to life the amazing men who came across the Atlantic nearly a century ago and won a famous victory which helped change a nation forever . . . the wonderful prose of Pierre Berton is all from the heart and you should share in it.” —War History Online “The cinematic writing plunks the reader in the midst of the actual battle, and a judicious use of quotes from soldiers’ diaries and letters helps provide a ground-level perspective.” —Quill & Quire