Harold Peat enlisted with the first Canadian contingent in 1914, trained in England and went to France with the Third Battalion. He describes the camps, the trenches, gas, chaplains, comrades and the fighting at Ypres in plain soldier’s language, beginning with the intention of writing a book of smiles and finding the seriousness creeping in.
A popular wartime memoir, later filmed, honouring the boys who never came back. Download the free EPUB.