Into the Blizzard (32 page)
Authors: Michael Winter
130
. “The ship would have to …” (
Evening Telegram,
6 February, 1919).
131
. “She said they have a poster …” from a conversation with Michelle Bowes, St John’s.
132
. “She was a true lady …” from a conversation with Tom Whalen, Bradley’s Cove.
133
. “the kids swing on them,” Paul Mackey, quoted in the
Evening Telegram,
Bonnie Belec reporting, 30 July 2013.
134
. “only twenty-nine years” (from p. 3 of David Facey-Crowther’s introduction to
LOWS
).
135
. “But that George Tuff …” Thank you to Bert Riggs for this clarification.
136
. “… he was a commercial traveller …” Sassoon, MOAIO.
137
. “a friend of mine …” I thank Lisa Moore for the description.
138
. “… on the regiment’s hockey team …”
For King & Empire,
p. 110, Norm Christie (CEF Books, 2003).
139
. “… on his way to visit his brother.” (NL GenWeb, Diary of Herman Pearce, 17 December, 1903).
140
. “She put me in a shoebox …” from a conversation with Alonso Osbourne, Seal Cove.
For those interested in a complete battle narrative of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, please consult Gerald Nicholson’s official history of the regiment,
The Fighting Newfoundlander
(McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1964).
The following three books provided much insight into a Newfoundland soldier’s life:
The Letters of Mayo Lind, Newfoundland’s Unofficial War Correspondent, 1914-1916,
Francis T. Lind (Creative, 2001).
Memoirs of a Blue Puttee,
A.J. Stacey & Jean Edwards Stacey (DRC Publishers, 2002).
Lieutenant Owen William Steele of the Newfoundland Regiment,
ed. David R. Facey-Crowther (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002).
FURTHER READING
Trenching at Gallipoli,
John Gallishaw (reprint by DRC Publishing, originally published by S. B. Gundy, 1916).
Your Daughter Fanny,
The War Letters of Frances Cluett, VAD, ed. Bill Rompkey & Bert Riggs, (Flanker Press, 2006).
Grand Bank Soldier,
The War Letters of Lance Corporal Curtis Forsey, ed. Bert Riggs (Flanker Press, 2007).
The Danger Tree,
David Macfarlane (Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1991).
The First Five Hundred,
Richard Cramm, (C.F. Williams, 1921).
Two Newfoundland VCs,
Joy B. Cave (Creative Printers, 1984).
General Sir Henry de Beauvoir de Lisle,
Reminiscences of Sport and War,
1939.
W. David Parsons,
Pilgrimage,
(DRC Publishing, 2009).
Ernest Junger,
Kriegstagebuch 1914-1918,
(Klett-Cota, 2013). Thanks to Brigid Garvey for the translation.
Booklet on the History of the War Graves Commission, 1929.
The Private Papers of Douglas Haig 1914-1919,
ed. Robert Blake, (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1952).
MUSEUMS
The Rooms, St John’s, Newfoundland
Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Ontario
The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, England
Imperial War Museum, London, England
ONLINE RESOURCES
The Newfoundland Regiment and the Great War:
www.therooms.ca
The Great War Forum:
http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php
Wallace Pike information from the Canadian Orange Historical website:
http://www.canadianorangehistoricalsite.com
The Browne Papers (Letters and Diaries of William Joseph Browne), ed. Madeleine Snow, 2000.
Mike O’Brien, “Out of a Clear Sky: The Mobilization of the Newfoundland Regiment, 1914-1915” (Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2007).
Antonia McGrath, “Museum Notes, Early Photography in Newfoundland,” 1980.
Notes on Cluny Macpherson (1879-1966): Faculty of Medicine Founders’ Archive, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
I’d like to thank Mark Ferguson, manager of Collections and Exhibitions at The Rooms, St John’s for guiding me to various archival sources. Special thanks to Michelle Bowes, who dug up excellent material on Thomas Ricketts and his family. Bert Riggs of Memorial University answered some specific questions. I appreciate the generous help from the staff at MUN’s Centre for Newfoundland Studies. Many thanks to Michael Renshaw and Julie Renshaw for their hospitality and conversation while in Auchonvillers. I’d like to thank the staff at the Imperial War Museum in London, the National Archives in Kew, and Helen Fraser at Sandringham Estate, Norfolk.
At Doubleday Canada, my thanks to my editor, Lynn Henry. And thank you to everyone within Random House of Canada who
has been part of making this book, especially Brad Martin, Kristin Cochrane, Scott Sellers, Scott Richardson, Peter Phillips, Zoe Maslow, Susan Burns, and publicist Nicola Makoway.
I would also like to thank Christine Pountney for her many insightful comments.
Note that the names of many commissioned officers, commanders, and civic and political leaders have been shortened in my account to a single given name and surname. In the historical records many of the “other ranks” barely have a first and last name. I wanted, in the spirit of Kipling, to level the value in human life, to make no distinction of the kind that middle names, initials, and honorific titles tend to encourage.
The only name I have kept in its entirety is General Sir Henry de Beauvoir de Lisle. It is such a beautifully ludicrous name and I hope the reader understands something about the character of the person who bore it and the nation and family that bestowed it.
