Hillmer Norman - Battle lines: eyewitness accounts from Canadas military history

J. L. GRANATSTEIN is a Toronto historian and former director of the Canadian War Museum, and NORMAN HILLMER is professor of history and international affairs at Carleton University. This is their sixth collaboration, including two other volumes in this series, First Drafts: Eyewitness Accounts from Our Past and The Land NewlyFound: Eyewitness Accounts of the Canadian Immigrant Experience, and the national bestseller, Prime Ministers: Ranking Canadas Leaders.

EYEWITNESS
ACCOUNTS FROM
CANADAS
MILITARY HISTORY

BATTLE LINES

J. L. Granatstein Norman Hillmer

Introduction and commentary copyright 2004 by J.L. Granatstein and Norman Hillmer

First paperback edition, introduction and commentary copyright 2010 by J.L. Granatstein and Norman Hillmer

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Battle lines : eyewitness accounts from Canadas military history / [edited by] J.L. Granatstein, Norman Hillmer.

ISBN 978-0-88762-618-0

1. CanadaHistory, Military. I. Granatstein, J. L., 1939
II. Hillmer, Norman, 1942

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CONTENTS

ANONYMOUS

CAPTAIN JOHN KNOX

MAJOR DUNCAN

SIR GUY CARLETON

THOMAS ANBUREY

W.H. MERRITT

ANNE PREVOST

CAPTAIN JACQUES VIGER

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL MATTHEW ELLIOTT

ANONYMOUS

ANDREW DREW

LIEUTENANT ANDREW AGNEW

CAPTAIN W.D. OTTER

COLONEL P. ROBERTSON-ROSS

COLONEL SIR WILLIAM BUTLER

WALTER F. STEWART

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL GEORGE T. DENISON

HARRY BROCK

CAPTAIN WILLIAM PARKER

F.H. MAYNARD

TOM WALLACE

DOUGLAS MCPHERSON

STANLEY M. BROWN

J.C. WALKER

C.F. HAMILTON

CHARLES AND BERT ROOKE

ARTHUR TURNER

REAR ADMIRAL WALTER HOSE

ALBERT HERBERT JOHN ANDREWS

LIEUTENANT ALEXANDER THOMAS THOMSON

PRIVATE WILLIAM PEDEN

ROBERT G. COMBE

PRIVATE WILLIAM PEDEN

ANONYMOUS

ALBERT EDWARD ROSCOE

MAJOR JOHN MCRAE

PRIVATE ATHANASE POIRIER

LIEUTENANT ALEXANDER THOMAS THOMSON

PRIVATE S.E. ADAM

LIEUTENANT JAMES THORPE

ERNEST M. TAYLOR

ARCHER TOOLE

PRIVATE MICHAEL DUGGAN

LIEUTENANT E.J. WATKINS

ARCHIE MACKINNON

HAROLD W. MCGILL

CAPTAIN GEORGE HICKS

SECOND LIEUTENANT JOHN B. BROPHY

HART LEECH

SECOND LIEUTENANT W.J. TEMPEST

JAMES HEPBURN

ARCHIBALD MACKINNON

THOMAS EARL WALKER

HAROLD W. MCGILL

MAJOR PERCY MENZIES

SUB-LIEUTENANT WALTER P. FLETT

CHARLES HENDERSHOT

PRIVATE THOMAS P. HARRIS

PRIVATE JOHN P. SUDBURY

ARTHUR TURNER

LIEUTENANT ARTHUR G. STARKINGS

KEITH MACGOWAN

WILBERT C. GILROY

JOHN ALLEN HUNTER/CHAPLAIN J.S. DARCEY

LIEUTENANT ANDREW WILSON

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR ARTHUR CURRIE

LAMBERT GRIFFITH

FRED LONGLAND

NURSING SISTER KATHERINE MACDONALD

IVAN CLARK MAHARG

LIEUTENANT LEWIS HONEY

WARREN HENDERSHOT

JOHN MENZIES

CLARENCE ELDER

JOHN GAITZ

OFFICER COMMANDING, MILITARY DISTRICT NO. 10

T.F. COOPER

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GUY SIMONDS

CHARLES VINING

AGNES MACPHAIL, MP

COLONEL J. SUTHERLAND BROWN

REAR-ADMIRAL FRANK HOUGHTON

MAJOR J. MURRAY SAVAGE

BRIGADIER-GENERAL ROBERT BENNETT

W.L. MACKENZIE KING

MAJOR E.G. WEEKS

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GUY SIMONDS

W.L. MACKENZIE KING

REAR ADMIRAL R.W. TIMBRELL

MAJOR-GENERAL HARRY FOSTER

MAX BASQUE

NURSING SISTER ELAINE WRIGHT

LIEUTENANT WILLIAM H. PUGSLEY

LIEUTENANT E.T. SIMMONS

BRIGADIER JOHN H. PRICE

GEORGE S. MACDONELL

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL MAURICE POPE

CATHRYNE BLACKLEY ARMSTRONG

FIELD MARSHAL MONTGOMERY OF ALAMEIN

DENNIS JOHN QUINLAN

KEN HUTCHINSON

MAJOR THE REVEREND MIKE DALTON

GRANT ODUM PHILLIP

LIEUTENANT H.W. HOCKIN

NEVA BAYLISS

SERGEANT JOHN PAYNE

ALEX BATEMAN

PRIVATE JACK GRISS

FLIGHT LIEUTENANT F. LAWRENCE PARKER

JACK WALLACE

VINCENT MASSEY

CAPTAIN HARRY BUTCHER

MAJOR ROY DURNFORD

MAJOR A.T. SESIA

VARIOUS

JAMES KESHEN

BRIGADIER-GENERAL CHRISTOPHER DE L. KIRBY

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GUY SIMONDS

CAPTAIN HARRY JOLLEY

GREGORY CLARK

LEO HAMSON

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL MAURICE A. POPE

JACK AINSWORTH

FRASER MCKEE

MAJOR-GENERAL CHRIS VOKES

BRIGADIER WILLIAM MURPHY

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL G.S. CURRIE

BRIGADIER WILLIAM MURPHY

SERGEANT EDWARD WORDEN

ROSS MUNRO

MAJOR T.L. BULLOCK

TROOPER KEN HUTCHINSON

MATTHEW HALTON

PILOT OFFICER WILLIAM WATSON

JACQUES GOUIN

GUNNER JAMES P. BRADY

FREDERICK GRIFFIN

NURSING SISTER JEAN M. ELLIS

BRIGADIER WILLIAM MURPHY

BILL BOSS

LIEUTENANT J.E. BOULET

FLIGHT LIEUTENANT ALEX GRAHAM

IAN H. FOWLER

SERGEANT W.L. LARGE

BURTON FITCH

CHAPLAIN SAM CASS

WARRANT OFFICER DON SCOWEN

GUNNER JAMES P. BRADY

EDNA WILSON

CAPTAIN PAT BATES AND PEGGY BATES

STANLEY WINFIELD

SQUADRON LEADER TED APLIN

CAPTAIN KEN CALDER

RODOLPHE CORMIER

EDITOR, Our Free Holland

MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN M. ROCKINGHAM

MAJOR RODERIC BRIAN MEREDITH

HARRY POPE

LIEUTENANT DON DALKE

MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN M. ROCKINGHAM

PRIVATE ROY DOOLEY

LIONEL SHAPIRO

COLONEL CHARLES P. STACEY

CAPTAIN G.R. TOMALIN

MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGES P. VANIER

ANONYMOUS

FLIGHT LIEUTENANT MICHAEL BELCHER

ROBERT BURNS

LIEUTENANT (N) RICHARD GIMBLETT

ROBERT PROUSE

COURT MARTIAL TESTIMONY

SERGEANT PAUL GLINAS