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CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: FLANDERS FIELDS

1980-0123

Sound

1 of 1

1964-03

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

interviewer, Frank Lalor

World War I veteran, Jack Booker [John?], talks about his war experiences beginning with his enistment with the listment with the 2nd Infantry Battalion and his training at Valcartier as a dispatch rider in the Eastern Ontario Regiment. Focusing on his first experience of warfare during the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915, he describes trench warfare and the enemy snipers who killed almost all of the officers creating confusion among the untried troops. He also describes his participation in battle at Armentiers reinforcing the Bedford Regiment of the 10th Infantry Battalion and later at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Other topics include his wounding at St. Pierre, evacuation to an American hospital in France and later in England and finally, his return to Canada in 1918.

English

Open

GAD 0FD547

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