From BACK COVER
“What these letters do most of all is convey as factually as possible
my grandfather’s voice through my own.” – Author, Bruce C. Caughill
James Adams’ journey from rural Canada to the Great War battlefields
and back is the story of thousands of young Canadians from his
generation. It is also a story that Adams himself never told. In
Letters to Janet: the Reconstructed Great War Experience of James
Irenus Adams, 26th and 104th New Brunswick Battalions author Bruce
Caughill pieces together the distant details of this story in a series
of letters notionally written by Adams to his aunt Janet over the
period 1915 to 1919.
Using Adams’ personal military file and limited correspondence during
the period, together with battalion records, battle reports, official
histories and first hand accounts from other soldiers in the same
battalions or battle area, Caughill weaves together a picture of what
life would have been like for this young New Brunswicker.
What separates Letters to Janet from the many soldier memoirs of the
period is that it was written approximately ninety years after the fact
by a grandson who barely knew his long deceased grandfather. It is,
therefore, a work of fact and, in limited instances, of fiction. More
than anything, it is a work of remembrance and tribute from one
generation to another.
For ordering information contact Bruce Caughill at
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