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Clay-Kickers Of Flanders Fields: Canadian Tunnellers At Messines Ridge 1916-1917, Brian Pascas

Canadian Military History

This article explores the Canadian tunnelling companies’ military mining organisation and accomplishments in underground galleries during the Great War. This comprehensive study explains the crucial role played by the Canadian engineers, in conjunction with British and Australian engineers, in the successful detonation of nineteen deep mines at Messines Ridge, Belgium on 7 June 1917. The tunnellers’ perseverance and skill were evident that morning when they slammed home plungers and threw switches igniting the largest planned explosion up to that time. However, daily hardships and dangers of underground warfare from the claustrophobic environment to the stress from the eavesdropping enemy led …

Struck Off Strength And From Memory: A Profile Of The Deserters Of The 165th (Acadian) Battalion, 1916, Gregory Kennedy

Canadian Military History

This article uses an exceptional archival source, the register of deserters for the 165th (Acadian) Battalion, to study the little understood phenomenon of desertion during the recruitment and training of new units in Canada during the First World War. By 1916, national enrollment numbers were in stark decline, and yet this Acadian unit was able to attract nearly 900 recruits. However, approximately 200 of them deserted before the unit left for Europe. Employing techniques of longitudinal analysis with military records and national censuses, the article identi

"Two Years Below The Horn: Operation Tabarin, Field Science, And Antarctic Sovereignty, 1944–1946 (Book Review)" By Andrew Taylor, Edited By Daniel Heidt And P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Matthew S. Wiseman

Canadian Military History

Review of Two Years Below the Horn: Operation Tabarin, Field Science, and Antarctic Sovereignty, 1944–1946 by Andrew Taylor, edited by Daniel Heidt and P. Whitney Lackenbauer.

"Waste Into Weapons: Recycling In Britain During The Second World War (Book Review)" By Peter Thorsheim, Alex Souchen

Canadian Military History

Review of Waste into Weapons: Recycling in Britain during the Second World War by Peter Thorsheim.

"American Grand Strategy In The Mediterranean During World War Ii (Book Review)" By Andrew Buchanan, Alexander Salt

Canadian Military History

Review of American Grand Strategy in the Mediterranean during World War II by Andrew Buchanan.

"No Free Man: Canada, The Great War, And The Enemy Alien Experience (Book Review)" By Bohdan S. Kordan, Richard Roy

Canadian Military History

Review of No Free Man: Canada, the Great War, and the Enemy Alien Experience by Bohdan S. Kordan.

"Filling The Ranks: Manpower In The Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918 (Book Review)" By Richard Holt, Curtis B. Robinson

Canadian Military History

Review of Filling the Ranks: Manpower in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918 by Richard Holt.

"Vimy: The Battle And The Legend (Book Review)" By Tim Cook, Katrina J. Pasierbek

Canadian Military History

Review of Vimy: The Battle and the Legend by Tim Cook.

"The Bytown Gunners: The History Of Ottawa’S Artillery, 1855-2015 (Book Review)" By Kenneth W. Reynolds, Major (Ret'd) M.R. Mcnorgan

Canadian Military History

Review of The Bytown Gunners: The History of Ottawa’s Artillery, 1855-2015 by Kenneth W. Reynolds.

"Unwanted Warriors: The Rejected Volunteers Of The Canadian Expeditionary Force (Book Review)" By Nic Clarke, Mark Humphries

Canadian Military History

Review of Unwanted Warriors: The Rejected Volunteers of the Canadian Expeditionary Force by Nic Clarke.

"Invisible Scars: Mental Trauma And The Korean War (Book Review)" By Meghan Fitzpatrick, Russell W. Glenn

Canadian Military History

Review of Invisible Scars: Mental Trauma and the Korean War by Meghan Fitzpatrick.

"Creating Canada’S Peacekeeping Past (Book Review)" By Colin Mccullough, Thirstan Falconer

Canadian Military History

Review of Creating Canada’s Peacekeeping Past by Colin McCullough.

"Reluctant Warriors: Canadian Conscripts And The Great War (Book Reivew)" By Patrick Dennis, David Borys

Canadian Military History

Review of Reluctant Warriors: Canadian Conscripts and the Great War by Patrick Dennis.

"Zombie Army: The Canadian Army And Conscription In The Second World War (Book Review)" By Daniel Byers, Brian Bertosa

Canadian Military History

Review of Zombie Army: The Canadian Army and Conscription in the Second World War by Daniel Byers.

'Whatsoever A Man Soweth:' Sex Education About Venereal Disease, Racial Health, And Social Hygiene During The First World War, Brent Brenyo

Canadian Military History

In 1917, the British War Office released a film directed by Joseph Best titled Whatsoever a Man Soweth. The 38-minute silent film used intertitles to convey dialogue, and the film’s narrative, which focuses on three Canadian soldiers on leave in London, England, was intended to provide sex education for soldiers. This paper examines how the film reflected and constructed a wartime reality through cultural representations, as increased attention was paid to the threat of venereal disease and its impact on racial health and the British Empire during the First World War. Ultimately, this sex education film provided soldiers with …

“The Most Vivifying Influence:” Operation Delta In Preparing The Canadian Corps For The Hundred Days, William F. Stewart

Canadian Military History

Preparation and training for Operation Delta in May and June 1918 provided the Canadian Corps with vital experience for the types of operations conducted during the Hundred Days. Delta was a proposed attack on the southern portion of the Lys salient formed by the German April offensive in Flanders. The operation represented a clear break with the operational concepts employed in 1917 prior to Cambrai. It was a difference between seeing a play diagrammed on a blackboard and actually running it in conditions just short of combat. Having a concrete plan to prepare schemes against was an invaluable element in …

Notes On Canadian Units And Formations Engaged: Battles Of The Somme, March-April 1918, Archer Fortescue Duguid

Canadian Military History

Although the Canadian Corps did not participate directly in the German Spring Offensives that began on 21 March 1918, detached Canadian cavalry, artillery, and motor machine gun units serving with British divisions played important roles at various points in the battles. In one of the better known instances, Canadian cavalry were instrumental in delaying a German drive on 30 March south of Amiens at Moreuil Wood where, in one of the most dramatic cavalry actions of the war, Lieutenant Gordon Flowerdew led a mounted charge with sabres drawn. For that action, he was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross.

Le Corps …

Wild Mares: My Lesbian Back-To-The-Land Life By Dianna Hunter And The New Farm: Our Ten Years On The Front Lines Of The Good Food Revolution By Brent Preston, Kristin Van Tassel

The Goose

Review of Dianna Hunter's Wild Mares: My Lesbian Back-to-the-Land Life and Brent Preston's The New Farm: Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution.

Nature, Place, And Story: Rethinking Historic Sites In Canada By Claire Campbell, Emma K. Morgan-Thorp

The Goose

Review of Claire Campbell's Nature, Place, and Story: Rethinking Historic Sites in Canada.

The Forgotten Campaign: Newfoundland At Gallipoli, Tim Cook, Mark Osborne Humphries

Canadian Military History

Gallipoli has no place in the collective memory of most Canadians and even among Newfoundlanders, Gallipoli has not garnered as much attention as the ill-fated attack at Beaumont Hamel. Although largely forgotten, Newfoundland’s expedition to Gallipoli was an important moment in the island’s history, one that helped shape the wartime identity of Newfoundlanders. Like other British Dominions, Newfoundland was linked to the Empire’s world-wide war experience and shared in aspects of that collective imperial identity, although that identity was refracted through a local lens shaped by the island’s unique history. Gallipoli was a brutal baptism of fire which challenged and …

Samuel Holland: From Gunner And Sapper To Surveyor-General 1755-1764, Frederick J. Thorpe

Canadian Military History

The British Army engaged, in 1755, the young Dutch officer, Samuel Holland (whose patron was already the Third Duke of Richmond), to serve in North America as an artillery and engineering subaltern. Following many months’ service directly under the field commander, Holland became deeply involved in the siege of Louisbourg (1758) as the engineering assistant to James Wolfe. The latter warmly commended Holland to Richmond for his superior efficiency and his bravery under constantly heavy enemy fire. After the siege, Holland drew an accurate plan of the fortified port, illustrating the steps of the siege-attack and defence. He became busy …

In Search Of The Fisherman’S Path: Rethinking The American Assault On Queenston Heights, Guy St-Denis

Canadian Military History

Canadian historians of the War of 1812 tend to associate a fisherman’s path with the initial success achieved by the Americans at the Battle of Queenston Heights. Unobserved, they made their way to the top of the escarpment and forced Brock to evacuate the redan battery located just below the brow of the heights. Desperate to retake this commanding position, Brock launched the ill-fated charge which resulted in his untimely death. It is a standard interpretation. But as this study reveals, the Americans had no particular need of a fisherman’s path.

Coal: A Significant Factor In Germany’S Defeat In World War I, Joseph Zeller

Canadian Military History

More than a hundred years have passed since the outbreak of the World War I, but there are still fundamental gaps in our understanding of the conflict. It has been generally recognized that the British blockade of Germany played the central role in bringing about Germany’s surrender. The German economy, industry and military came to suffer as a result of domestic shortages of all kinds, but especially of coal. In the gridlock of devastation and military force that had developed by 1916 coal came to represent a most effective tool of British allied force that Germany could not counter and …

“Representing Canadian Interests In All Matters Relative To Canadian War Dead:” Lt. Col. J.A. Bailie And The Recovery, Concentration And Burial Of The “C” Force Casualties In Japan And Hong Kong, Mark Sweeney

Canadian Military History

Abstract : The processes and rituals of grieving, memorializing and remembering a nation’s war dead are well known, while the project of recovering, concentrating and preparing wartime casualties for burial is less clearly understood. The task of burying the Canadian war dead in the Pacific fell to one individual, former pow, Lt. Col. J.A. Bailie. This paper investigates Bailie’s experience that began with his pow journals and ended with the consecration of the Yokohama and Sai Wan Military Cemeteries in Japan and Hong Kong. Bailie’s efforts and the relationships he developed with Canada’s allies heralded successful results, despite meagre resources …

"The First World Oil War (Book Review)" By Timothy C. Winegard, Corbin Williamson

Canadian Military History

Review of The First World Oil War by Timothy C. Winegard

"Training Aces: Canada’S Air Training During The First World War (Book Review)" By Peter C. Conrad, Brian Douglas Tennyson

Canadian Military History

Review of Training Aces: Canada’s Air Training During the First World War by Peter C. Conrad.

"Sounding Thunder: The Stories Of Francis Pegahmagabow (Book Review)" By Brian D. Mcinnes, Eric Story

Canadian Military History

Review of Sounding Thunder: The Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow by Brian D. McInnes

"Stopping The Panzers: The Untold Story Of D-Day (Book Review)" By Marc Milner, Brad St. Croix

Canadian Military History

Review of Stopping the Panzers: The Untold Story of D-Day by Marc Milner

"Sister Soldiers Of The Great War: The Nurses Of The Canadian Army Medical Corps (Book Review)" By Cynthia Toman, Eliza Richardson

Canadian Military History

Review of Sister Soldiers of the Great War: The Nurses of the Canadian Army Medical Corps by Cynthia Toman.

"Resister: A Story Of Protest And Prison During The Vietnam War (Book Review)" By Bruce Dancis, Jeremy Maxwell

Canadian Military History

Review of Resister: A Story of Protest and Prison during the Vietnam War by Bruce Dancis