An American Soldier, Letters - Couverture souple

Abbey, Edwin Austin

9781117166599: An American Soldier, Letters

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1117166597 ISBN 13 : 9781117166599

Editeur : BiblioLife, 2009

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The letters are printed, with little or no editing, as they were written from the engineers shack in the Canadian woods, or from overseas in camp, trench, or hospital. There was, of course, no idea in the mind of the writer that they would ever be published. That they are is due to the insistent request of many who have found in them both illumination and inspiration. They tell their own story. The summer of 1915 was spent in superintending the construction of the bridge at Shaws Creek, which was completed at the end of September. On October 2d, the writer of the letters enlisted in the Second Canadian Pioneer Battalion, in Toronto, going overseas on December 6th, and arriving at the Flanders Front on the 11th of March, 1916. Early in the morning of A pril 23d, Easter Day, Lance Corporal E. A. Abbey was wounded, and a week later sent to England, where he remained seven months. On December 1st he was returned to France, gazetted Lieutenant, Fourth Canadian Mounted Rifles, and went at once to the front, where he was killed in action at Vimy Ridge, on the morning of Easter Tuesday, A pril 10, 1917. W. B. A. AND K. E. A.
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