What
the “Boys” Did Overthere By “Themselves” - edited by
Henry L. Fox, Revised by Sergt. N L Forrestal. Published by Allied
Overseas Veterans’ Stories Co., Inc, 145 W. 45th Street, N Y City.
Copyright 1918, 1919. I am assuming this is a 1919 publication.
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One of the chapters “
THE
SUNSHINE OF
THE TRENCHES” is online at
http://groups.msn.com/CanadaWorldWarOnetheFirstContingent/thesunshineofthetrenches.msnw?pgmarket=en-ca
Written by Sgt. E. D. G. Aylen, PPCLI, originally published in "What
the 'Boys' Did Overthere / By 'Themselves'", a compilation of first
person accounts (1919).
Another chapter - "
The First of the
Tanks" The story was written by Sergt. M. L. Nicholson,
Liverpool Scottish, BEF, for "What the Boys did Overthere / By
Themselves" (1919).
http://groups.msn.com/CanadaWorldWarOnetheFirstContingent/thefirstofthetanks.msnw
Some of the names of the BOYS who tell their story:
Sergt Jesse W Wade, # 151023,
(Picture included)
Sergt Jack Winston 55525 -
19th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, 2nd Canadian Contingent.
Pvt. Al. Barker No 118 43D
Company, 5th Regiment, U S Marines. (His picture included along with
Corporal Frank J Sears)
Corp Frank J Sears, Co. A,
9th Infantry, 2D DIV., A E F
Private Albert Franklin Edwards
(Picture included) No 6857, 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Div.,
Canadian Infantry (Editor notes these were the first Canadians to go
overseas to the Great War) End of War, h was taken to Saint John, New
Brunswick, Canada.
Machine Gunner George Eckhart
No 165688, 1st M G Batt., 1st DIV., A E F (Picture)
Sergt Alexander Gibb, No
444476, CO A 26 Battalion, N B Regt, Canadian INF. (Picture).
Sergt T S Grundy with picture.
Photo -
Treating Gunner McAvity’s
wounds, Parks Convalescent Hospital, St. John, New Brunswick.
Frederick Gerald McAvity,
Gunner No. 91805, 8th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery. (Picture with
arm in sling)
Sgt F R Muir, No 81611, 10th
Batt., C E F
Pvt George Oxton, No 81680,
1oth Batt., C E F (with photo)
Photo and story
Private John T
Miller, No 122957, 96th Co., 6th Regt., U S Marines.
Pvt Jack Kneeland, No 105,
43RD Co., 5th Regt., U S Marines.(With photo)
Sgt Mark L Nicholson, No
3736, 10th Liverpool, Scottish, B E F (With photo)
Sunshine of the Trenches - mentioned above - is online by
Sgt E D G AYLEN ‘Princess Pata” with
photo.
Sgt Harry Hall, No 19805
Photo and story -
Lance Corp Edmond
Hall..
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