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Riding Into War: The Memoir of a Horse Transport Driver, 1916-1919 (The New Brunswick Military Heritage Series, 4) - Softcover
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On the ghastly battlefields of the First World War, Jimmie Johnston drove teams or pack horses carrying ammunition and hauling guns to the front lines. One night, Johnston was hauling guns back from the front line. Suddenly, in the darkness and pouring rain, he, his team, the wagon, and the guns pitched into an old trench. After disentangling the horses from their harness, Johnston found a trenching tool, dug away...
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"I believe my saddle horse knew more than I did . . . He took care of me."
The popular image of the Great War is of the trenches, but Jimmie Johnston experienced the triumph of Vimy and the hell of Passchendaele from a saddle. A horse driver in the transport section of the Canadian Machine Gun Corps, he hauled machine guns and ammunition to the front...
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James Robert Johnston (1898-1976) grew up on a farm at Notre Dame, New Brunswick. Knowing nothing about the army, he enlisted in April 1916, when he was 18, and was posted to the transport section of the Canadian machine gun corps. Johnston served at Vimy, at Hill 70, Lens, Ypres, Valenciennes, and other places, and finally at Passchendaele. He was gassed, watched Billy Bishop give a flying demonstration,...
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- PublisherGoose Lane Editions
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0864924127
- ISBN 13 9780864924124
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages112
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Soft cover. Condition: As New. As New; Volume 4 in the New Brunswick Military Heritage Series. The popular image of the Great War is of the trenches, but Jimmie Johnston experienced the triumph of Vimy and the hell of Passchendaele from a saddle. A horse driver in the transport section of the Canadian Machine Gun Corps, he hauled machine guns and ammunition to the front lines through shellfire, darkness, driving rain, and suffocating mud. James Robert Johnston grew up on a farm at Notre Dame, near Moncton, New Brunswick, and enlisted when he was 18 years old. In 1964, he toured the battlefields he remembered so vividly and recorded his recollections. Riding into War is his gripping memoir. Seller Inventory # 008851
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