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Book Synopsis Fighting Newfoundlander by : Gerald W.L. Nicholson
Download or read book Fighting Newfoundlander written by Gerald W.L. Nicholson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fighting Newfoundlander is a vivid history of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment - the "Blue Puttees" - and its heroic contributions to the war effort. Gerald Nicholson details the harrowing experiences of the Newfoundland Regiment (the only Canadian unit) at Gallipoli and later at Beaumont Hamel where 710 of the 801 officers and men who took part in the assault were casualties. He also follows them to the Third Battle of Ypres and Cambrai, for which they were granted the title "Royal" - the only army unit to receive such a distinction during World War I.
Book Synopsis More Fighting Newfoundlanders - a History of Newfoundland's Fighting Forces in the Second World War by Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson, C.D. by : Newfoundland. Parliament
Download or read book More Fighting Newfoundlanders - a History of Newfoundland's Fighting Forces in the Second World War by Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson, C.D. written by Newfoundland. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis More Fighting Newfoundlanders, by G.w.l. Nicholson by : G. w. l Nicholson
Download or read book More Fighting Newfoundlanders, by G.w.l. Nicholson written by G. w. l Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis More Fighting Newfoundlanders by : Gerald William Lingen Nicholson
Download or read book More Fighting Newfoundlanders written by Gerald William Lingen Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis More Fighting Newfoundlanders by : Gerald W. L. Nicholson
Download or read book More Fighting Newfoundlanders written by Gerald W. L. Nicholson and published by St. John's? : Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Fighting Newfoundlander by : Gerald William Lingen Nicholson
Download or read book The Fighting Newfoundlander written by Gerald William Lingen Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Fighting Newfoundlander. A History of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment by Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson ... Maps Drawn by Sergeant E.H. Ellwand by : Newfoundland. Army. Royal Newfoundland Regiment
Download or read book The Fighting Newfoundlander. A History of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment by Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson ... Maps Drawn by Sergeant E.H. Ellwand written by Newfoundland. Army. Royal Newfoundland Regiment and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders by : Greg Malone
Download or read book Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders written by Greg Malone and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story, drawn from official documents and hours of personal interviews, of how Newfoundland and Labrador joined Confederation and became Canada's tenth province in 1949. A rich cast of characters--hailing from Britain, America, Canada and Newfoundland--battle it out for the prize of the resource-rich, financially solvent, militarily strategic island. The twists and turns are as dramatic as any spy novel and extremely surprising, since the "official" version of Newfoundland history has held for over fifty years almost without question. Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders will change all that.
Book Synopsis The Fighting Newfoundlander by : E. H. Ellwand
Download or read book The Fighting Newfoundlander written by E. H. Ellwand and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Royal Newfoundland Regiment in the Great War by : Frank Gogos
Download or read book The Royal Newfoundland Regiment in the Great War written by Frank Gogos and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 400 photographs and 40 maps, this history of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment is a tribute to those who served and a guide for those who wish to retrace the soldiers' steps. It is the essential travel companion to the battlefields and memorials of the Newfoundland Contingent in the Great War. In 1914, the Dominion of Newfoundland stepped forward to stand to arms in aid of the British Empire, mobilizing a generation of young volunteers to fight the Central Powers. Unlike her Imperial cousins, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, this rugged North Atlantic country did not have a standing army. From this inauspicious beginning, the 1st Newfoundland Regiment evolved into one of the toughest and most respected fighting units in the First World War, the only Regiment serving in the armies of the British Empire to be awarded the title "Royal" during these hostilities. But the fighting cost them dearly. Suffering great losses, the Royal Newfoundland Regiment left many of its soldiers behind on the battlefields of France, Belgium, and Gallipoli. After the war, Padre Thomas Nangle of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment pioneered the commemoration of these soldiers through proper burials and the creation of magnificent memorials to the fallen. More than a hundred years have passed since the beginning of the Great War, and new generations are visiting these memorials to bear witness to the heroism and sacrifice of their forebears. This book is a must-have for anyone making the pilgrimage to those battlefields.
Download or read book On to Civvy Street written by Peter Neary and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the origins of the Veterans Charter, a program that shaped the future of a generation of Canadians.
Download or read book Out Here written by Melvin Baker and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vice Admiral Sir Humphrey Thomas Walwyn (1879–1957) was the British-appointed governor of Newfoundland from 1936 to 1946 – a period of remarkable change that would culminate in Newfoundland’s union with Canada in 1949. Assembling records from the British national archives and the provincial archives in Newfoundland and Labrador, Out Here presents readers with Walwyn’s quarterly reports to the secretary of state for dominion affairs in London throughout his tenure as governor. Walwyn’s position offered him a unique vantage point on the political and economic situation in Newfoundland throughout this tumultuous period. His reports bear witness to profound change, chronicling the economic downturn experienced in the final years of the Great Depression, followed by the unprecedented prosperity sparked by the Second World War that set the stage for debates over governance and for significant constitutional advance. The detailed accounts of Walwyn’s daily life in Newfoundland feature rich descriptions of capital city, company town, and outport mores; they paint a picture of coastal life in the mid-twentieth century and introduce the wide array of characters the governor encountered. Throughout, the candid insider accounts of Governor Walwyn are augmented by expert historical context and illustrated with a generous selection of contemporary photographs. As a whole, Out Here stands as an invaluable primary-source record and an important trove of information on wartime experiences in Atlantic Canada.
Download or read book The Last Word? written by Jeffrey Grey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-11-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official history is a misunderstood genre of historical writing, which attracts much negative comment from (non-official) historians but about which very little detail is actually known. This book examines the development of official history programs in Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand over the course of the twentieth century, looking at the ways in which they developed and the contributions each made to their respective national historiography. The second part of the work develops some themes from the first and takes the official histories of the Second World War as case studies. Drawing on programs in Australia, Britain, and the United States, these essays examine the relationship between the histories, the historians, and their sponsoring institutions. They assess the impact of the histories on historical understanding of the Second World War. They also consider the impact that contemporary events during the Cold War had on the writing of the official history.
Book Synopsis S.S. Nerissa, the Final Crossing by : William Dziadyk
Download or read book S.S. Nerissa, the Final Crossing written by William Dziadyk and published by BD Pro Inc.. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable human story, one that is worth reading. - Maritime Engineering Journal Fascinating story is told in a thorough and interesting manner, highly recommended. - Action Stations magazine, Canadian Naval Memorial Trust, HMCS Sackville Book is intriguing. Recommended for navy enthusiasts and more casual readers alike. - Starshell magazine, Naval Association of Canada --- Second Edition, with an Addendum. In the written histories of the Battle of the Atlantic, the S.S. Nerissa is overlooked. She was the only ship transporting Canadian Army troops to be lost to enemy action during the entire Second World War. The details of the sinking were highly classified until almost 50 years after the event. The tragic loss of this ship resulted in the third largest loss of life for a ship sunk by U-boats in the approaches to the British Isles. These human losses touched not only Canadian families, but also families in allied nations and in the neutral United States … and these losses are largely unknown to our current generation. Two hundred and seven lives were lost: 81 Merchant Navy; 73 Canadian Army; 10 Royal Canadian Navy; 4 Royal Navy; 8 Royal Air Force; 11 American pilots (UK Air Transport Auxiliary); 3 Royal Norwegian Air Force; 3 Canadian government employees; and 14 civilian passengers (including 3 children). After these many years, their stories deserve to be told. Included are eye-witness accounts from many of the survivors and some stories of those who perished. The first torpedo exploded into the Engine Room. Six minutes later, as the lifeboats were being lowered, U-552 (Erich Topp) fired a coup de grâce torpedo into the already stricken Nerissa. Of the ship’s eight lifeboats, only one was successfully launched, one was upright but flooded, four were capsized and two were pulled down with the ship. Much of this true story is based on the analysis of testimony, recollections and official reports taken from survivors, as well as declassified Canadian, British and German documents. Nerissa usually sailed independently, not in escorted convoys. This book focuses on the events which led up to the sinking by U-552 and the deadly 10 hours awaiting rescue about 80 miles off the coast of Ireland. Only eighty-four survivors were alive to be rescued by HMS Veteran, while HMS Hurricane and RAF 502 Squadron aircraft provided anti-submarine sweeps. The book also provides humanizing details to a very tragic story. Addressed is the public relations dilemma related to informing families of their losses, while the allied authorities enforced security restrictions related to a major wartime incident. Also included is relevant historical context of Britain’s overall war efforts at that time; and in particular Bletchley Park’s significant advances in decrypting German naval Enigma encoded messages … in the few weeks before and after the sinking. --- The Addendum summarizes results of recent collaborative analysis, by the author and a retired Irish journalist, of various historical records which may now allow identification of bodies from the S.S. Nerissa which washed ashore onto the Irish coast, but had not been identified during the war.
Book Synopsis The Canadian Rangers by : P. Whitney Lackenbauer
Download or read book The Canadian Rangers written by P. Whitney Lackenbauer and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canadian Rangers stand sentinel in the farthest reaches of our country. For more than six decades, this dedicated group of citizen-soldiers has quietly served as Canada's eyes, ears, and voice in isolated coastal and northern communities. Drawing on official records, interviews, and participation in Ranger exercises, Lackenbauer argues that the organization offers an inexpensive way for Canada to "show the flag" from coast to coast to coast. The Rangers have also laid the foundation for a successful partnership between the modern state and Aboriginal peoples, a partnership rooted in local knowledge and crosscultural understanding.
Book Synopsis Occupied St John's by : Steven C. High
Download or read book Occupied St John's written by Steven C. High and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2010 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories and memories of those who lived through the Second World War in Newfoundland.
Book Synopsis Through Footless Halls of Air by : Floyd Williston
Download or read book Through Footless Halls of Air written by Floyd Williston and published by GeneralStore PublishingHouse. This book was released on 1996 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
