Lieutenant Owen William Steele of the Newfoundland Regiment diary and letters
Title:
Lieutenant Owen William Steele of the Newfoundland Regiment diary and letters
Author:
Steele, Owen William.
ISBN:
9780773524286
9780773570528
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Publication Information:
Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxiv, 253 p.) : ill.
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Foreword: A Family History JAMES H. STEELE -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Pleasantville to Salisbury Plain -- Scotland -- Aldershot to Egypt -- Suvla Bay -- Evacuation -- Egypt and Europe Bound -- Louvencourt to Eve of Battle -- The Battle of Beaumont Hamel -- A Family Grieves -- A Nation Mourns -- Appendix: Acrostics and Poems -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
"Lieutenant Owen William Steele volunteered for the famed Newfoundland Regiment in late summer 1914. His war diary, begun as he embarked for England, relates the experiences of his regiment training on Salisbury Plain and in Scotland, baptism of fire at Gallipoli, recuperation in Egypt, and, finally, the battlefields of France. Along the way his sense of adventure turns to a growing weariness with war, a desire to return home, and an underlying hope that he will survive. His diary ends twenty-two months later on the eve of the Battle of the Somme at Beaumont Hemel, a few days before his death."--Jacket.
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