Read Letters from Beauly: Pat Hennessy and the Canadian Forestry Corps in Scotland, 1940-1945 (New Brunswick Military Heritage, 23)

Letters from Beauly: Pat Hennessy and the Canadian Forestry Corps in Scotland, 1940-1945 (New Brunswick Military Heritage, 23)

Melynda Jarratt

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Description:During the Second World War, hundreds of New Brunswick woodsmen joined the Canadian Forestry Corps to log the Scottish Highlands as part of the Canadian war effort. Patrick "Pat" Hennessy of Bathurst was one of them. For five years, Pat served as camp cook with 15 Company of the Canadian Forestry Corps near the ancient town of Beauly, Scotland. A middle-aged New Brunswick farmer and lumberman with a third-grade education, Pat saw more of the world than he had ever dreamed of, visiting ancient battlefields he had learned about as a child, travelling to his ancestral Ireland, and attending a course of lectures in British history at Oxford University.While in Scotland, Pat regularly corresponded with his family in New Brunswick. Drawing from this unique collection of more than three hundred letters, as well as hundreds of archival documents and photographs, Melynda Jarratt provides a rare glimpse of what life was like for Canadian servicemen overseas and for their relatives at home."Letters from Beauly" is volume 23 in the New Brunswick Military Heritage Series, co-published with the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Letters from Beauly: Pat Hennessy and the Canadian Forestry Corps in Scotland, 1940-1945 (New Brunswick Military Heritage, 23). To get started finding Letters from Beauly: Pat Hennessy and the Canadian Forestry Corps in Scotland, 1940-1945 (New Brunswick Military Heritage, 23), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: During the Second World War, hundreds of New Brunswick woodsmen joined the Canadian Forestry Corps to log the Scottish Highlands as part of the Canadian war effort. Patrick "Pat" Hennessy of Bathurst was one of them. For five years, Pat served as camp cook with 15 Company of the Canadian Forestry Corps near the ancient town of Beauly, Scotland. A middle-aged New Brunswick farmer and lumberman with a third-grade education, Pat saw more of the world than he had ever dreamed of, visiting ancient battlefields he had learned about as a child, travelling to his ancestral Ireland, and attending a course of lectures in British history at Oxford University.While in Scotland, Pat regularly corresponded with his family in New Brunswick. Drawing from this unique collection of more than three hundred letters, as well as hundreds of archival documents and photographs, Melynda Jarratt provides a rare glimpse of what life was like for Canadian servicemen overseas and for their relatives at home."Letters from Beauly" is volume 23 in the New Brunswick Military Heritage Series, co-published with the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Letters from Beauly: Pat Hennessy and the Canadian Forestry Corps in Scotland, 1940-1945 (New Brunswick Military Heritage, 23). To get started finding Letters from Beauly: Pat Hennessy and the Canadian Forestry Corps in Scotland, 1940-1945 (New Brunswick Military Heritage, 23), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Letters from Beauly: Pat Hennessy and the Canadian Forestry Corps in Scotland, 1940-1945 (New Brunswick Military Heritage, 23)

Letters from Beauly: Pat Hennessy and the Canadian Forestry Corps in Scotland, 1940-1945 (New Brunswick Military Heritage, 23)

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