A Family of Brothers: Soldiers of the 26th New Brunswick Battalion in the Great War (New Brunswick Military Heritage, 25) - Softcover

Wilson, J. Brent

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0864929234 ISBN 13: 9780864929235

Publisher: Goose Lane Editions, 2018

Synopsis

The powerful story of over 5,700 brothers in arms.

They fought at Ypres in the fall of 1915, on the Somme at Courcelette and Regina Trench in 1916. They carried on to Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, and Passchendaele in 1917. They were part of the battles at Amiens and the Hundred Days campaign of 1918. The 26th Battalion was the only infantry unit from New Brunswick (and one of only 24 from the rest of Canada) to serve continuously on the Western Front from 1915 until the Armistice in 1918. More than 5,700 soldiers passed through its ranks during the First World War: 900 were killed and nearly 3,000 were wounded.

A Family of Brothers tells the powerful story of the “Fighting 26th,” from their mobilization to the aftermath of the war. Using letters, newspaper accounts, war diaries, and other official documents, Brent Wilson offers a compelling account of the soldiers at the front and those behind the lines, their experiences of the war and how their lives would be transformed upon their return to the Canada.

A Family of Brothers is volume 25 of the New Brunswick Military Heritage Series.

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From the Back Cover

They fought at Ypres in the fall of 1915, and at the Battle of the Somme at Courcelette and Regina Trench in 1916. They carried on to Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, and Passchendaele in 1917. They were part of the battles at Amiens and the Hundred Days campaign of 1918. The 26th Battalion was one of only a few Canadian infantry units to serve continuously on the Western Front from 1915 until the Armistice in 1918. More than 5,700 soldiers passed through its ranks: 900 were killed and nearly 3,000 were wounded. Only 117 of the original 1,150 recruits returned home after the war ended.

A Family of Brothers tells the powerful story of the "Fighting 26th," from their mobilization to the aftermath of the war. Using letters, newspaper accounts, war diaries, and other official documents, Brent Wilson offers a compelling account of the soldiers at the front and those behind the lines, their experiences of the war and how their lives would be transformed upon their return to the Canada.

A Family of Brothers is volume 25 of the New Brunswick Military Heritage Series.

About the Author

J. Brent Wilson teaches in the history department at the University of New Brunswick and has worked at the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society since 1989. He is the editor of Hurricane Pilot: The Wartime Letters of W.O. Harry Gill, D.F.M., 1940-1943, Vol. 10 in the New Brunswick Military Heritage Series, and a co-author of Kandahar Tour: The Turning Point in Canada's Afghan Mission.

About this edition

• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0864929234
• ISBN 13: 9780864929235
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296