| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 253 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Foreword: A Family History JAMES H. STEELE -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Pleasantville to Salisbury Plain -- Scotland -- Aldershot to Egypt -- Suvla Bay -- Evacuation -- Egypt and Europe Bound -- Louvencourt to Eve of Battle -- The Battle of Beaumont Hamel -- A Family Grieves -- A Nation Mourns -- Appendix: Acrostics and Poems -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"Lieutenant Owen William Steele volunteered for the famed Newfoundland Regiment in late summer 1914. His war diary, begun as he embarked for England, relates the experiences of his regiment training on Salisbury Plain and in Scotland, baptism of fire at Gallipoli, recuperation in Egypt, and, finally, the battlefields of France. Along the way his sense of adventure turns to a growing weariness with war, a desire to return home, and an underlying hope that he will survive. His diary ends twenty-two months later on the eve of the Battle of the Somme at Beaumont Hemel, a few days before his death."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-245) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Steele, Owen William -- Diaries
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Steele, Owen William -- Correspondence
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| SUBJECT |
Steele, Owen William fast |
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Great Britain. Army. Newfoundland Regiment, 1st -- Diaries
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain. Army. Newfoundland Regiment, 1st fast |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories -- Newfoundland and Labrador
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, Newfoundland
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Africa, North
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Soldiers -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Diaries
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Soldiers -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Correspondence
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War I.
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Military campaigns
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Regimental histories
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Soldiers
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Eerste Wereldoorlog.
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North Africa
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Newfoundland and Labrador
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Western Front (World War (1914-1918))
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Diaries
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Personal correspondence
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Autobiographies.
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Personal narratives.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Récits personnels.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Facey-Crowther, David R. (David Richard), 1938-
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| ISBN |
9780773570528 |
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0773570527 |
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1282860704 |
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9781282860704 |
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9786612860706 |
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6612860707 |
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