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Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919
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Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919

Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War
By G.W.L. Nicholson
With a new introduction by Mark Humphries
History: Canada, History: Military: Canada
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An authoritative and extensively illustrated account of how the Canadian Army experienced the Great War.


Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson's Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 was first published by the Department of National Defence in 1962 as the official history of the Canadian Army’s involvement in the First World War.

Immediately after the war ended Colonel A. Fortescue Duguid made a first attempt to write an official history of the war, but the ill-fated project produced only the first of an anticipated eight volumes. Decades later, G.W.L. Nicholson - already the author of an official history of the Second World War - was commissioned to write a new official history of the First. Illustrated with numerous photographs and full-colour maps, Nicholson’s text offers an authoritative account of the war effort, while also discussing politics on the home front, including debates around conscription in 1917.

With a new critical introduction by Mark Osborne Humphries that traces the development of Nicholson’s text and analyzes its legacy, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 is an essential resource for both professional historians and military history enthusiasts.
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Part of the Carleton Library Series (number 235 in series)

672 Pages, 6 x 9

12 colour and 60 b&w maps, 56 b&w photos, 2 colour illustrations

ISBN 9780773546189

February 2017

Formats: Paperback, eBook

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“More than fifty years after it was first published, Nicholson’s official army history still remains the definitive account of the Canadian Expeditionary Force’s operations during World War I.” Mark Zuehlke, author of The Canadian Battle Series
Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson (1920-1980) served with the Prince Albert Volunteers and worked for the Historical Section of the Canadian military, with appointments in London and Ottawa, from 1943 until his retirement in 1961. He is the author of Marlborough and the War of the Spanish Succession, The Canadians in Italy, 1943-1945, and The Fighting Newfoundlander.
Mark Osborne Humphries is associate professor of history and Dunkley Chair in War and the Canadian Experience at Wilfrid Laurier University.
Introduction to the Carleton Library Series Edition: The Origins of Nicholson's Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 by Mark Osborne Humphries xiii

Foreword to the First Edition by Colonel G.M.C. Sprung xli
Preface to the First Edition xlii

I. Canada at War 3
II. Forging the Weapon 18
III. The Battles of Ypres, 1915 49
IV. Festubert and Givenchy, 1915 93
V. The St. Eloi Craters and Mount Sorrel, 1916 129
VI. The Battles of the Somme, July-November 1916 160
VII. Behind the Front 201
VIII. The Battle of Vimy Ridge, 9-14 April 1917 233
IX. The Capture of Hill 70, 1917 269
X. Passchendaele, October-November 1917 298
XI. Conscription 340
XII. The German Offensives of 1918 362
XIII. Amiens, 8-11 August 1918 386
XIV Through the Hindenburg Line to Cambrai 425
XV The Final Advance, 12 October-11 November 461
XVI. Outside the Corps 485
XVII. After the Armistice 524

APPENDICES

"A" Persons Holding Principal Appointments 539
"B" Canadian Unites in France and Belgium, November 1918 544
"C" Appointments, Enlistments, Strength and Casualties-Canadian Expeditionary Force 546
"D" Infantry Battalions which Served with the Canadian Corps, Showing Subsidiary Titles (where applicable) and Places of Mobilization or Organization 549
"E" The Results of the Military Service Act 551
"F" Battles and other Engagements in which Canadian Forces Participated 554
"G" Distinguishing Patches of Canadian Units in the Field 564

Abbreviations 557
References 561
Index 595
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