Letters from the front
Subtitle: being a record of the part played by officers of the Bank in the great war, 1914-1919
Series: Harvard College Library preservation digitization program
Publisher: Southam Press
Published: 1920
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Registers; Canadian Personal narratives; Soldiers; Biography
Description: The 2 volumes in this work provide a detailed historical record of the services provided to the war effort in the Great War by employees of all branches of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. Volume 1 contains letters from various Canadian Bank of Commerce staff members while they served with the allied forces engaged in the war, and a list of all 1701 staff members who enlisted to fight, including the 258 who gave their lives. Volume 2 was created to augment the previous volume by providing more detailed biographical information of the staff members whose names, ranks, dates of enlistment, and branches were listed in that first volume.
Notes: "The 'Letters from the front' pamphlets edited by Charles Lyons Foster have been supplemented, and incorporated in this volume by William Smith Duthie"--Vol. 1, p. [iii].

v.1: Introd. 1920; v.2: Introd. 1921.

Biographies in v. 2 compiled and edited by A.D. Golden and D.P. Wagner-- Cf. v.2, p. viii.