Fighting Newfoundlander
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2006
- Category
- General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773583665
- Publish Date
- Oct 2006
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
The Fighting Newfoundlander is a vivid history of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment - the "Blue Puttees" - and its heroic contributions to the war effort. Gerald Nicholson details the harrowing experiences of the Newfoundland Regiment (the only Canadian unit) at Gallipoli and later at Beaumont Hamel where 710 of the 801 officers and men who took part in the assault were casualties. He also follows them to the Third Battle of Ypres and Cambrai, for which they were granted the title "Royal" - the only army unit to receive such a distinction during World War I.
About the author
Colonel Gerald W.L. Nicholson (1902-1980) served with the Prince Albert Volunteers. He is the author of The Canadians in Italy, 1943-1945 and Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919, both part of the official history of the Canadian Army.