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Medicine and Duty : The World War I Memoir of Captain Harold W. McGill, Medical Officer, 31st Battalion C.E.F., Paperback / softback Book

Medicine and Duty : The World War I Memoir of Captain Harold W. McGill, Medical Officer, 31st Battalion C.E.F. Paperback / softback

Edited by Marjorie Barron N

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Medicine and Duty is the World War I memoir of Harold McGill, a medical officer in the 31st (Alberta) Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force.

McGill attempted to have his memoir published by Macmillan of Canada in 1935, but, unfortunately, due to financial constraints, the company was not able to complete the publication.

Decades later, editor Marjorie Norris came upon a draft of the manuscript in the Glenbow Archives and took it upon herself to resurrect McGill's story. Norris's painstaking archival research and careful editing skills have brought back to light a gripping first-hand account of the 31st Battalion and, on a larger scale, of Canada's participation in World War I.

A wealth of additional information, including extensive notes and excerpts from letters written ""from the trenches"", lends a new sense of immediacy and realism to the original memoir and provides a fascinating, harrowing glimpse into the day-to-day life of Canadian soldiers during the Great War.

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