About This Book
A series of wartime sketches that portray life with a Canadian infantry battalion during the First World War, mixing wry character portraits and camp routine—mud, leaking canvas, tent music, mules and rations—with plain accounts of front-line experience, including fighting at Courcelette and moments of carnage. The pieces catalogue duties and roles (batmen, adjutants, scouts), encounters with aeroplanes and anti-aircraft fire, relations with local inhabitants, marches, sickness and the strain of action, shifting between anecdotal humour and sober reflection while registering a steady longing for home.
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