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Dying from “the Drink”: Soldier Deaths Due to Alcohol, 1914-1918

Dying from “the Drink”: Soldier Deaths Due to Alcohol, 1914-1918

by Kyle Pritchard | Nov 11, 2019 | LCSC, War & Society Web Series, War and Society | 0 comments

by Georgia Gingrich During the First World War, Canadians were divided over the consumption of alcohol, with prohibition efforts succeeding in many provinces between 1916 and 1918. I was introduced to this tension while meticulously combing through the mortality...
The Saudi Effect: Canadian Military Exports in Context

The Saudi Effect: Canadian Military Exports in Context

by Kyle Pritchard | Oct 18, 2019 | LCSC, War & Society Web Series, War and Society | 0 comments

by Paul Esau The arms trade is a tricky business for a self-proclaimed “middle power” like Canada. Export too little and you’ll be accused of undercutting the domestic military producers needed to maintain a Defence Industrial Base (DIB), and consequently outsourcing...
He is Remembered: F/Sgt. Biddlecombe, Part II

He is Remembered: F/Sgt. Biddlecombe, Part II

by Kyle Pritchard | Sep 24, 2019 | LCSC, War & Society Web Series, War and Society | 0 comments

by Eric Brown This is the second article in a three-part series on the life of Second World War veteran Peter Biddlecombe. Throughout the training program, aircrew candidates were constantly being evaluated. At any stage of the...
He is Remembered: F/Sgt. Biddlecombe, Part II

He is Remembered: F/Sgt. Biddlecombe, Part I

by Kyle Pritchard | Jul 15, 2019 | LCSC, War & Society Web Series, War and Society | 1 comment

by Eric Brown This is the first article in a three-part series on the life of Second World War veteran Peter Biddlecombe. At the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, men from all corners of Canada rushed to join the...
The Gradual Disillusionment of Private Charles Wood

The Gradual Disillusionment of Private Charles Wood

by LCMSDS | Jun 8, 2019 | LCSC, War & Society Web Series, War and Society | 0 comments

By Eric Story In the immediate aftermath of the Great War, Canadians began the process of coming to terms with the death and destruction the past conflict had wreaked on the young Dominion. According to historian Jonathan Vance, the public constructed a memory of the...
An Ongoing Mission of Remembrance, Part III

An Ongoing Mission of Remembrance, Part III

by Kyle Pritchard | May 10, 2019 | LCSC, War & Society Web Series, War and Society | 0 comments

The Life of Gordon E.G. Brown After the War by Michael Saad This is the third and final article in a series on the life of Korean War veteran Gordon EG Brown. See also Part I and Part II. The Korean War weighed heavily on Gordon’s psyche upon his return home in the...
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