The young girl from the Ottawa Valley who served as a nurse in North Africa with only a helmet of fresh water a day, the teenage soldier from Fredericton who stole pig swill to survive in a Hong Kong prisoner of war camp, the English woman who survived the sinking of the Athenia to become a war-bride, and an Alberta airman who crashed off the icy coast of Greenland, these are but only four of the thirty compelling personal accounts of war experiences.
Many private photographs from their own albums illustrate these stories, which reflect the world wide aspect of the war from the Indian Ocean to the North Atlantic, from Poland to the Middle East, and the varied activities and duties of these young men and women. Their hardships, their adventures, frustrations, fears, joys and romances are chronicled in a poignant and often humorous manner.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 940.54/81/71
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 19
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9780919670952 9781770700529
- LCCN
- D811.A2
- LCCN Item number
- H624 1985eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (267 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00214567 (OCoLC)719733672 (CaOOCEL)413806
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Foreword 7
- Preface 8
- SEA 10
- 1 Athenia Survivor 12
- 2 Aboard the Algonquin 23
- 3 Sinking of the S.S. Sinkiang 33
- 4 Salty Old Salt 45
- 5 To the Far Shore 47
- LAND 58
- 6 Acceptance 59
- 7 Here and There with a Hasty Pee 61
- 8 Lost Dentures and Un Peu de Bren 69
- 9 Sister, Who Cares? 79
- 10 Guns and Mud and Luck 87
- 11 With First Overseas Draft of the CWACS 97
- 12 Joking in the Face of Death 111
- 13 Biscuit, Book, and Candle in Hong Kong 116
- 14 Capturing Pig Swill 121
- 15 Casualty Clearing 123
- 16 Headaches for a Fusilier Mont-Royal 135
- 17 Take Your Rosary, Son 140
- 18 No Nervous Breakdowns 148
- 19 It Could Always Be Worse 156
- 20 Canadian Girl in the A.T.S. 165
- 21 Modern Weapons 170
- 22 Resistance in Holland 172
- 23 War and Love – A Soldier's Lot 182
- AIR 200
- 24 Special Squadron, Special Duties 201
- 25 Close Shaves and Steady Nerves 209
- 26 Red-Letter Memories of an Air Gunner 216
- 27 RCAF (Women's Division) One of the First 226
- 28 Sand and Flies and Spitfires 230
- 29 Beating the Odds 237
- 30 Greenland Ordeal 251
- Bibliography 263
- Acknowledgements 264
- Photography Credits 265
