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Hold the Oxo! : a teenage soldier writes home / Marion Fargey Brooker. --
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- ISBN: 1554888700 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781554888702 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 141 p. : ill. --
- Publisher: Toronto : Dundurn Press, c2011.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-136), Internet addresses and index. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 14.99 |
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| Subject: | Fargey, James, 1897-1916. Soldiers > Canada > Biography. World War, 1914-1918 > Canada > Biography. Soldiers > Canada > Correspondence. World War, 1914-1918 > Personal narratives, Canadian. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 940.48171 Bro | 31681002305381 | NONFICPBK | Available | - |
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Short-listed for the 2014 Forest of Reading - White Pine Award for Non-Fiction
Canada was young during the First World War, and with as many as 20,000 underage soldiers leaving their homes to join the war effort, the countryâs army was, too. Jim, at 17, was one of them, and he penned countless letters home. But these werenât the writings of an ordinary boy. They were the letters of a lad who left a small farming community for the city on July 15, 1915, a boy who volunteered to serve with the 79th Queenâs Own Cameron Highlanders.
Jimâs letters home gloss over the horrors of war, focusing instead on issues of the home front: of harvesting, training the horses, and the price of hogs. Rarely do these letters, especially those to his mother and father, mention the mud and rats, the lice and stench of the trenches, or the night duty of cutting barbed wire in no manâs land. For 95 years his letters remained in a shoebox decorated by his mother.
Jim was just 18 when he was wounded and died during the Battle of the Somme. Hold the Oxo! tells the story that lies between the lines of his letters, filling in the historical context and helping us to understand what it was like to be Jim. - Univ of Toronto Pr
Canada was young. Twenty thousand underage soldiers left their homes to serve in the Great War. Jim, at seventeen, was one of them. His letters home gloss over the horrors of war, focusing on issues of the home front: of harvesting, training horses, and the price of hogs. His letters rested ninety-five years in a shoebox decorated by his mother. - Univ of Toronto Pr
Short-listed for the 2014 Forest of Reading - White Pine Award for Non-Fiction
Canada was young during the First World War, and with as many as 20,000 underage soldiers leaving their homes to join the war effort, the country’s army was, too. Jim, at 17, was one of them, and he penned countless letters home. But these weren’t the writings of an ordinary boy. They were the letters of a lad who left a small farming community for the city on July 15, 1915, a boy who volunteered to serve with the 79th Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders.
Jim’s letters home gloss over the horrors of war, focusing instead on issues of the home front: of harvesting, training the horses, and the price of hogs. Rarely do these letters, especially those to his mother and father, mention the mud and rats, the lice and stench of the trenches, or the night duty of cutting barbed wire in no man’s land. For 95 years his letters remained in a shoebox decorated by his mother.
Jim was just 18 when he was wounded and died during the Battle of the Somme. Hold the Oxo! tells the story that lies between the lines of his letters, filling in the historical context and helping us to understand what it was like to be Jim.
