Georges Vanier: Soldier
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Georges Vanier: Soldier

The Wartime Letters and Diaries, 1915-1919

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Georges Vanier: Soldier

The Wartime Letters and Diaries, 1915-1919

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East Sandling Camp. 1 June 1915

"Captain Boyer and I are leaving for London to buy a motor car for the regiment. We will be staying at the Savoy."

Flanders. 27 October 1915. Diary entry: 4: 00 p.m.

"Returned to the trenches. After two days of rain, they are in a deplorable state. There is mud up to our knees. The parapets have collapsed in several spots. The nights are frigid, our feet are cold, and we have not yet received our supplies of wood and charcoal."

In the field. 1 August 1918.

"You will pardon the brevity and the looseness of this letter when you know under what conditions it has been written. What you wish to know above all I can tell you at once. I am well - in fact I do not think I have ever been quite so well in body and in spirit. I have been protected in a special manner during the last three days. I have seen so many narrow escapes myself that I am beginning to think that one should not worry much about possible eventualities."

No. 8 British Red Cross Hospital, Boulogne. 6 September 1918.

"By this time you will have received reassuring cablegrams and field postcards and possibly letters from friends of mine.

"First, to be quite frank, I will admit that I have not been in fit condition to write a coherent letter …"

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Information

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Year
2000
Print ISBN
9781550023435
eBook ISBN
9781459713017

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Editor’s Notes
  7. Prologue—The Call of War
  8. The War So FarĀ .Ā .Ā .
  9. 1. The Van Doos Sail for Europe—May 1915
  10. 2. ā€œTo Be at Last in Franceā€ā€”September 1915
  11. 3. ā€œOh, the Mud of Flandersā€ā€”October 1915
  12. 4. A ā€œSpecial Taskā€ā€”January 1916
  13. 5. The Big Push—February 1916
  14. 6. Trench Warfare Intensifies—April 1916
  15. 7. Convalescence in Britain—June 1916
  16. 8. Return to the Battlefield—October 1916
  17. 9. The Campaign Heats Up—Spring 1917
  18. 10. ā€œSuch Frightful Carnageā€ā€”March 1918
  19. 11. Casualty of War—August 1918
  20. 12. Continued Convalescence, and Armistice—November 1918
  21. Epilogue
  22. Chronology
  23. Endnotes
  24. Acknowledgements
  25. Suggested Reading
  26. Index

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