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Medicine and Duty Harold W. McGill

Medicine and Duty von Harold W. McGill

Medicine and Duty Harold W. McGill


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Zusammenfassung

A World War I memoir of Harold McGill, a medical officer in the 31st Alberta Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, that was compiled & written by McGill in the 1930s.

Medicine and Duty Zusammenfassung

Medicine and Duty: The World War I Memoir of Captain Harold W. McGill, Medical Officer, 31st Battalion C.E.F. Harold W. McGill

The story of the individual always grips us - it is why biography remains so popular. But in Medicine and Duty we receive a double serving: the story of Medical Officer Captain Harold W. McGill coupled with the story of the many men who served in the 31st Battalion and what they together managed to achieve against such long odds. - Patrick Brennan, Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary Medicine and Duty is the World War I memoir of Harold McGill, a medical officer in the 31st (Alberta) Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. McGill attempted to have his memoir published by Macmillan of Canada in 1935, but, unfortunately, due to financial constraints, the company was not able to complete the publication. Decades later, editor Marjorie Norris came upon a draft of the manuscript in the Glenbow Archives and took it upon herself to resurrect McGill's story. Norris's painstaking archival research and careful editing skills have brought back to light a gripping first-hand account of the 31st Battalion and, on a larger scale, of Canada's participation in World War I. A wealth of additional information, including extensive notes and excerpts from letters written from the trenches, lends a new sense of immediacy and realism to the original memoir and provides a fascinating, harrowing glimpse into the day-to-day life of Canadian soldiers during the Great War.

Über Harold W. McGill

Marjorie Barron Norris is a writer and historian who lives in Calgary. She has previously written about the history of nursing in World War I and on the history of the Calgary Local Council of Women.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Threat of War. The Outbreak of War. Mobilisation. Life in Barracks. The Move to England. Baptism of Fire. Our Enemy the Mud. The Dawn of new Year. The Battle of St Eloi. The Coming of General Byng. The Battle of Sanctuary Wood. The Summer in Belgium. The Journey to the Somme. The Battle of the Somme (cont/d.). After the Battle. The Souchez Sector. Out of the Line. The Storming of Vimy Ridge. Beyond the Ridge. Summer Holidays. The Lens Sector. Epilogue. Appendix: 31st Battalion Casualties to 11 November, 1918. Index.

Zusätzliche Informationen

CIN1552381935A
9781552381939
1552381935
Medicine and Duty: The World War I Memoir of Captain Harold W. McGill, Medical Officer, 31st Battalion C.E.F. Harold W. McGill
Gebraucht - Gut Gelesen
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University of Calgary Press
20070601
406
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