Going the Extra Mile: Stories from the History of Aviation Medicine - Couverture souple

Gaunt, Alan

 
9781861515308: Going the Extra Mile: Stories from the History of Aviation Medicine
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ISBN 10 : 1861515308 ISBN 13 : 9781861515308
Editeur : Memoirs Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Cecil Packer was a farm labourer, a factory worker, a shepherd and a devoted family man from Wiltshire who like so many others was sent to France to fight for his country in the First World War, and never returned. Cecil survived both the Gallipoli and Somme campaigns, so for his descendants, his death on the Western Front when his battalion was far from the front line was a mystery as well as a tragedy. Alan Gaunt, whose wife Shirley is Cecil s great-granddaughter, set about researching Cecil s humble but interesting life and finally established the tragic circumstances of his accidental death in December 1916 at the age of 31. This is not the story of a traditional hero in the mould of Nelson or Wellington but that of a village shepherd, a local man who did not come from the nobility or the ranks of the nation s leaders but simply loved his family and died in the service of his country.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Cecil Packer was a farm labourer, a factory worker, a shepherd and a devoted family man from Wiltshire who like so many others was sent to France to fight for his country in the First World War, and never returned. Cecil survived both the Gallipoli and Somme campaigns, so for his descendants, his death on the Western Front when his battalion was far from the front line was a mystery as well as a tragedy. Alan Gaunt, whose wife Shirley is Cecil’s great-granddaughter, set about researching Cecil’s humble but interesting life and finally established the tragic circumstances of his accidental death in December 1916 at the age of 31. “This is not the story of a traditional hero in the mould of Nelson or Wellington but that of a village shepherd, a local man who did not come from the nobility or the ranks of the nation’s leaders but simply loved his family and died in the service of his country.”

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Éditeur
Memoirs Publishing
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1861515308
ISBN 13 
9781861515308
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
386
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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