Unforgetting Private Charles Smith

• Main Author: Locke Hart, Jonathan (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Canada Athabasca University Press 2019
• Subjects: Poetry; world war 1; WWW 1; battle of mount sorrel; war poetry; war diaries; princess patricia canadian light infantry; canadian expeditionary force; armistice; in flanders fields; trench soldier; war stories; paris 1919; first world war; treaty of versailles; historical poetry; canadian poetry
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Private Charles Smith had been dead for close to a century when Jonathan Hart discovered the soldier's small diary in the Baldwin Collection at the Toronto Public Library. The diary's first entry was marked 28 June 1915. After some research, Hart discovered that Charles Smith was an Anglo-...