Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures and Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 3
6. The View from Above: A Canadian Pilot in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette 21
7. “When Told to Advance, They Advanced”: War Culture and the CEF 45
8. The Voiceless Dead: Francis Jenkins, Regina Trench, and Living and Dying on the Western Front 63
9. “Going over the Ground Again”: Major Samuel Bothwell, 1st CMR, and Vimy Ridge 84
10. Soldier or Ward? Hill 70 and the Lived Experience of Private Wilfred Lickers 109
11. Talbot Papineau: The Life and Death of an Imperial Man 130
12. Fallen Sisters: Gender, Military Service, and Death in Canada’s First World War 151
13. Religion and the Great War: The Canadian Experience 175
14. Replacing Leaders: Lieutenant Roy Duplissie and the Hundred Days Campaign 199
15. “Scars upon My Heart”: Arnold and Clarence Westcott, Brothers and Soldiers 224
16. The CEF during the Hundred Days: Desertion and Punishment 249
17. Conclusion 265
18. Selected Bibliography 286
19. Contributors 300
20. Index 301
21. Studies in Canadian Military History 315