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History of the 31st Canadian Infantry Battalion C.E.F.

by (author) Horace C. Singer

edited by Darrell Knight

Publisher
Brush Education
Initial publish date
Jan 2006
Category
Canada
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781550593167
    Publish Date
    Jan 2006
    List Price
    $19.95

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Out of print

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Description

For more than six long years, from late 1931 to 1938, Major Horace Cecil Singer, late of the Royal Canadian Artillery, patiently labored to write this outstanding account of the 31st Battalion’s fighting record in World War One. Armed with little more than pencil and pad of paper, and assisted intermittently by two stenographers operating a manually-operated Number 5 Underwood typewriter, Major Singer travelled extensively at his own cost to flesh out the records, and to secure the information he required for the text from numerous sources in western Canada, from the Department of National Defence in Ottawa, and from other sources in London, England. Year by year, the text was slowly compiled, edited, typed—and then read and reviewed for final edit again by A.A. Peebles, of Lethbridge, Alberta—before being collated and re-typed as a final manuscript.

The original book is reproduced in its entirety, with additions of comment, pictures, and minor alternations.

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