Loyal gunners : 3rd Field Artillery Regiment (The Loyal Company) and the history of New Brunswick's Artillery, 1893 to 2012 / Lee Windsor, Roger Sarty, Marc Milner ; with J. Brent Wilson, Shawn McPherson, Kendall French, Joe Foote and the Loyal Company Association.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Windsor, Lee, 1971- author.

Milner, Marc, author.

Sarty, Roger, 1952- author.

Series:

Canadian unit, formation, and command histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canada. Canadian Army. Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd--History.

Canada.

Canada. Canadian Army. Field Regiment, 3rd--History.

Canada. Canadian Army. New Brunswick Regiment of Artillery--History.

Canada. Canadian Army.

Physical Description:

xviii, 473 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour maps ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Loyal Gunners uniquely encapsulates the experience of Canadian militia gunners and their units into a single compelling narrative that centres on the artillery units of New Brunswick. The story of those units is a profoundly Canadian story: one of dedication and sacrifice in service of great guns and of Canada. The 3rd Field Regiment (The Loyal Company), Royal Canadian Artillery, is Canada's oldest artillery unit, dating to the founding of the Loyal Company in Saint John in 1793. Since its centennial in 1893, 3rd Field--in various permutations of medium, coastal, and anti-aircraft artillery--has formed the core of New Brunswick's militia artillery, and it has endured into the twenty-first century as the last remaining artillery unit in the province. This book is the first modern assessment of the development of Canadian heavy artillery in the Great War, the first look at the development of artillery in general in both world wars, and the first exploration of the development and operational deployment of anti-tank artillery in the Second World War. It also tells a universal story of survival as it chronicles the fortunes of New Brunswick militia units through the darkest days of the Cold War, when conventional armed forces were entirely out of favour. In 1950 New Brunswick had four and a half regiments of artillery; by 1970 it had one--3rd Field. Loyal Gunners traces the rise and fall of artillery batteries in New Brunswick as the nature of modern war evolved. From the Great War to Afghanistan it provides the most comprehensive account to date of Canada's gunners.

Contents:

New beginnings, 1893-1914

Searching for finding a role at home and abroad, 1914-1916

Building the Corps Artillery, 1915-1916

War on two fronts, 1917

1918, the guns of victory

The long armistice, 1919-1939

Coast defence 1939-1945

The long road to war, 1939-1944

Sicily and Italy: New Brunswick's batteries in 1st Canadian Corps

Northwest Europe, 1944-1945

The hardest fight (Cold War and fragile peace?)

Afghanistan: the latest test.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Windsor, Lee A., 1971-, author. Loyal gunners.

ISBN:

9781771122375

1771122374

OCLC:

953332488