Heard Amid the Guns: True Stories from the Western Front, 1914-1918

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Cover Copyright Page Contents Prologue: Two Grandfathers Charles Wellington Camden Chapman Louisa “Bebe” Watson Small Peat Holiday Truce What Happened at the Front Marrying Well Yesteryear’s Social Media Timeline 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1: Going on to War A Territory Goes to War Too Young Three Years a Prisoner in Germany 2: Wartime Racism In the Air, on the Ground Yes, in the Great War: Code Talkers Washington State to BC to War Most Decorated with Three Military Medals Brigadier-to-Be from the Six Nations A Brilliant Reflection of His People Colour Barriers Brave is . . . The Caribbean at War Honoured Decades Late Anyone’s War: Muslims Fighting for the Allies Crossing that River Valour before Citizenship Forgotten Medals 3: In the Trenches Ground Zero: Ypres, Wipers, Ieper First Gassed at Kitcheners’ Wood: They Held the Ground A Rare Place at the Front: Poperinge Lijssenthoek: Where Names Match Bones Veiled in Shadow: Vancouver Corner Birth of a Poem and a Legend: Essex Farm Mad about Lusitania From New York City to the Front Immigrant Home to Stay How to Bury a Man at Sea On the Trail of Five Bronze Caribou Heroic Even in Death Regret to Inform Awful Somme The Whole Side Wall Had Come Out Walking Wounded Leave the Light On Hockey Hall of Famers Front Fare Little Brown Jug Wartime Humour 4: Women's Work Rosie the Riveter of Her Day The Only English Woman Soldier In His Place A Stamp for Her Nobel Winner and X-Rays Nurses at the Forefront Leading in Research Fundamentally a Pacifist Patriotism Is Not Enough Air Raid Claims Full Military Honours Talent for the Troops Who Put the Poppy on Your Lapel? 5: Not Wanting to Fight Baby Talk: Conscientious Objectors Make Me: Propaganda Shot at Dawn Execution Squad Talk This Out 6: 1917 and 1918 April 1917: America Joins the Frayed Over There Unforgettable Death Penny Take This Ring: A Will at the Front Finishing the Journal Alberta Olympian Inuit Hero on Thin Ice Passchendaele No Time for Tenderness Why Me? Super Sniper Brave Rush Out Past the Onions: Memorial to the Fighting 85th Step into History: The Passchendaele Museum Take to the Skies July and August in March: Julius Bauer and August Buhler Seven Pebbles Dogged Optimism: More Lives Than a Cat Family Sacrifice: Far from Pleasant Family of Service Please Send My Brother Home An Unwilling Sacrifice Reprieve Too Late War and Politics: Conscription, American Style Conscription au Canada Give the Other Vote to the Sister We Have Stolen Mrs. Black Damn the Torpedoes Promises to Keep Two Members of Parliament A Close, Close Call 7: Final Push - The Last One Hundred Days One Pilgrim’s Progress: Escape Keep Your Mouth Shut! Armageddon in the Argonne His Burden of Leadership Envisioning a Future after the War Someone Else’s Journal, Someone Else’s Souvenirs Poor Consolation A Stamp for Billy Bishop Piling on the Years Angel of the Trenches Tres Meses Muy Largos 8: The Animals' War Good Horse, Poppy Ballarat A Bond with Their Horses POV: War Horse The Mystery of the Chestnut Gentleman Full of Life, Never Gets Tired Hitched to a Wagon Canine Heroes: Red Cross Dogs Gentleman in Fur Good Little Fundraiser The Stuff of Movies: Sergeant Stubby From War-Torn Europe to Hollywood Famous Inspiration One Tough Pigeon 9: The End and What Came Next Minutes before Armistice The Last Belligerent Bookending the Beginning and the End Pandemic in the Peace Finishing Wonderful See You at the Reunion Noble Duty Bravely Done: CLC Coming Home “After They’ve Seen Paree” O Little Town of Arkholme The Aftermath of War for Some Literary Fallout A Round Door Relationships That Began under Intense Circumstances Bring Her Home Turning Luck Promises Fulfilled 10: Keeping Remembrance Alive When He Sees: Hill 145 at Vimy Stained Glass and Cigarettes Names without Graves The 42nd Rainbow Division Soldier Statues They Shall Not Grow Old Remembering Them The Canadian Letters and Images Project, VIU Redpatch Percy: A Story of 1918 Remembered in Tattoos Kitcheners Epilogue Why Shoot a Man You Never Knew? Lessons from the Western Front Acknowledgements Bibliography Index