This year’s colloquium is free. If you are enjoying today’s programming, consider making a donation to the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies.
Up Next at 2:30 pm ET:
To join, click the appropriate link in your emailed program.
Session 3A
Fighting the Second World War
Chair: Alex Souchen [Royal Military College of Canada]
An Army of Never-Ending Strength
Arthur Gullachsen [Royal Military College of Canada]
Dorothy L. Sayers and William Lyon Mackenzie King:How a British Detective Novelist Inspired the Prime Minister of Canada before
D-Day
Robert Revington [University of Toronto]
Chinese Canadian Secret Warriors in the Pacific, 1944-1946
Chris Weicker [University of Victoria]
–
To join, click the appropriate link in your emailed program.
Session 3B
Veterans and Memory: The Interwar Period
Chair: Lyndsay Rosenthal [University of Ottawa]
“Lincs of Remembrance and Memories of Lincs”: Class, Camaraderie and Veterans of the First World War in North East England,
1919-1984
Kyle Falcon [Western University]
Defending the War Graves: Body-Snatching and Resistance to the Imperial War Graves Commission, 1918-1939
Bryan McClure [Western University]
Brigadier Milton Gregg, VC, MM: Restless and Destitute, 1919-1934: The Unwritten and Unwanted Chapter
Joel Watson [University of New Brunswick]
–
To join, click the appropriate link in your emailed program.
Tomorrow at 9 am ET:
To join, click the appropriate link in your emailed program.
Keynote Address
Combat and Social Change in the Second World War: The Canadian Army in Commonwealth Perspective
Jonathan Fennell, King’s College London, author of Fighting the People’s War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War (2019).