Brave battalion
Subtitle: the remarkable saga of the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish) in the First World War
By: Mark Zeuhlke.
Publisher: J. Wiley & Sons Canada
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Mississauga, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780470154168
Subjects: Canada. -- Canadian Army. -- Battalion, Canadian Scottish, 16th; Canada. -- Canadian Army -- History -- World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories -- Canada
Description: "Mark Zuehlke ... tells the story of the average Canadian who volunteered for the Canadian Expeditionary Force through the lens of one battalion -- the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish) of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division. This Highland regiment fought in the Ypres Salient and in the Somme, at Vimy and Amiens. It suffered the first gas attack; its ranks were decimated as it fought at virtually every major battle in the European theatre. From the declaration of war to the cessation of hostilities, Zuehlke follows the battalion from marshalling and training in Canad, across the Atlantic to England, and then landing in Europe. In graphic detail, he takes the reader into the trenches and onto the shell-pocked battlefields, through assaults on ridges and wooded valleys"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-271) and indexes.