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The Maple Leaf Forever Our Township in the Military
171 pages of information on those Puslinch men and women who participated in the military, this book takes the reader from the early days of settlement, when the voluntary militia was mobilized to counteract the 1837 McKenzie Rebellion to the close of World War II. It leads through the era of the Crimean War, the Fenian Raids launched from the U.S., the American Civil War, in which some Puslinch men fought, the Riel Rebellion in the West and the Boer War of 1899, to which Canada, although without a standing army, sent a contingent to support the British in South Africa. Among the highlights are an 1865 Militia List of two Puslinch Battalions of 76 men each; a 3-page letter written by David Ellis from the Civil War battleground to his father at home in Puslinch; an account of the Battle of Boschbult in 1902, for which John A. Wilkinson of Puslinch was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal; information on 140 individuals who served in World War I; letters home from the front in World War I; essays on Norman Fitton, Gerald McEachern, Patrick McGarr, Alexander McLean, David Priest, George Stewart, and Fraser Weatherall, Puslinch servicemen who gave their lives in World War II, and the wartime scrapbook of Marjorie McLean, nurse aboard the hospital ship Lady Nelson. Written by Marjorie Clark. Published June 2008. Available
at the or by mail from the clarksoftomfad@sympatico.ca $40.00 plus shipping, if applicable. |