LEADER 03354nam 22005175 450 001 9910149437003321 005 20230515055004.0 010 $a1-4426-3775-7 010 $a1-4426-5321-3 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442653214 035 $a(CKB)3710000000926023 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4730296 035 $a(DE-B1597)479349 035 $a(OCoLC)992526426 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442653214 035 $a(OCoLC)962125450 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_107472 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000926023 100 $a20170607d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aBut This is Our War /$fGrace Morris Craig 210 1$aToronto : $cUniversity of Toronto Press, $d[2017] 210 4$dİ1981 215 $a1 online resource (177 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) $cillustrations 225 1 $aSocial History of Canada ;$v35 311 $a1-4426-3946-6 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 Then we were young -- $t2 Alf's story -- $t3 The crossing -- $t4 Up the line -- $t5 The home front -- $t6 All in the game -- $t7 Reunion -- $t8 No more mud -- $t9 The last battle -- $tEpilogue 330 $aPembroke. August 4, 1914. On a verandah in town four young people anxiously await news that will change irrevocably the course of their lives. A fifth arrives, out of breath, with the latest bulletin from the telegraph office. War has been declared - and it is their war. At the age of ninety, Grace Craig looks back to her youth and tells the story of the impact of the Great War on her family and friends. Letters from the young men on the Western Front are interwoven with her own memories of the war. Her brother Basil, youngest officer in the No. 1 Canadian Tunnelling Company, fights underground driving mineshafts deep below the tortured earth of no man's land; later, as an observer in the Royal Flying Corps, he flies above the enemy lines amidst the bursting shells. His older brother Ramsey, a lieutenant in the 38th Battalion, fights in the constant mud on the ground, and must lead his men 'over the top' in the face of enemy fire. At home their sister knits socks and scarves, packs boxes to be sent overseas, serves vast quantities of apple pie and ice cream in the canteen at nearby Camp Petawa, and leads the assembled troops in stirring war songs. In November 1916 she braves the U boats and the North Atlantic to spend time with her brothers while they are on leave in England. Divided by danger and distance, letters alone allowed contact. The soldiers yearned for everyday news of home; and in Pembroke one waited for, and kept forever, those precious scraps of paper from beyond the sea. But This is Our War is a moving, absorbing document of young Canadians at war. 410 0$aSocial history of Canada ;$v35. 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$vPersonal narratives, Canadian 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$zCanada 607 $aCanada$vBiography 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918 676 $a940.4/81/71 700 $aCraig$b Grace Morris.$0925276 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910149437003321 996 $aBut This is Our War$92077209 997 $aUNINA