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Riding into war: the memoir of a horse transport driver, 1916-1919

By James Robert , New Brunswick Military Heritage Project.;Johnston

Book information

Publisher
Goose Lane Editions and the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society
ISBN
0864924127, 9780864925848, 0864925840
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4397022 bytes)
Series
New Brunswick military heritage series 4
Pages
(103 pages) : illustrations, cartes\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1897-1976;Guerre mondiale1914-1918 -- Récits personnels1914-1918 -- Transport;Guerre mondiale1914-1918--Transport;Livres numériques;Johnston1914-1918;Guerre mondialeGuerre mondialeJames Robert

Description

On the battlefields of World War I, Jimmie Johnston drove teams of pack horses carrying ammunition and hauling guns to the front lines. Two decades after the war ended, he wrote this memoir of his wartime experiences on a trip back to Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele. In Riding into War, Johnston marvels at how jokes and pranks and the funny side of even the most terrible events have stuck in his mind. Yet, even in the face of horror and suffering, his sense of humour rarely deserted him. James Robert Johnston grew up in New Brunswick and enlisted in 1916, when he was 18. After the war he worked for the railway and as a surveyor. World War I, Canadian Military History, Personal Memoir, Canadian Author.

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