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Lieutenant Owen William Steele of the Newfoundland Regiment : diary and letters / edited by David R. Facey-Crowther.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steele, Owen William.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Regimental histories--Newfoundland and Labrador.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Newfoundland.
- World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Western Front.
- World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Africa, North.
- Soldiers--Newfoundland and Labrador--Diaries.
- Soldiers.
- Soldiers--Newfoundland and Labrador--Correspondence.
- Great Britain. Army. Newfoundland Regiment, 1st--Diaries.
- Great Britain.
- Steele, Owen William--Diaries.
- Steele, Owen William.
- Steele, Owen William--Correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Steele and his comrades expected war to be a glorious adventure, their personal intersection with events of historic importance. His diary entries convey the excitement that accompanied the passage of the "First 500" recruits across the Atlantic to England and the boredom that followed as the regiment moved from training camps to garrison towns during the first year of the war. Steele's account of the regiment's role in the ill-fated Gallipoli expedition shows how the reality of war transforms individuals, shattering illusions about glory and heroic effort and replacing them with fears of death and wounding far from home. Steele's record of the shift to the western front and the events that led up to the virtual annihilation of his regiment on the fields of Beaumont Hamel on 1 July 1916 is filled with the pathos and irony of war. His diary captures the essence of how the individual deals with war's uncertainties, the terrible possibilities of self destruction on the battle-ground, and the need to control and overcome those fears. The Great War is of special interest to Newfoundland as it was the last significant effort by what was then a small Dominion to assert its place within the larger British Empire. Newfoundland's participation in the war resulted not only in the loss of lives and limbs but to the strains and tensions that led to its demise as an independent country.
- Contents:
- Pages:1 to 25; Pages:26 to 50; Pages:51 to 75; Pages:76 to 100; Pages:101 to 125; Pages:126 to 150; Pages:151 to 175; Pages:176 to 200; Pages:201 to 225; Pages:226 to 250; Pages:251 to 275; Pages:276 to 278
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-245) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-86070-4
- 9786612860706
- 0-7735-7052-7
- OCLC:
- 929120866
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