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

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