This article is part of the author’s research into the circumstances of the death by execution by a soldier of the 18th Battalion. Up until his desertion after 5-months of active service with the Battalion there is no indication of behaviour that would reflect cowardice. Private Edward Fairburn, reg. no. 227098. 11 Maples Street, St.... Continue Reading →
GWCA Third Lecture – Death or Deliverance: Canadian Courts Martial in the Great War
Teresa Iacobelli, PhD. specializes in Canadian military history, public history and social memory. She is the author of Death or Deliverance: Canadian Courts Martial in the Great War (Winner, 2013 C.P. Stacey Prize, Canadian Commission for Military History and the Canadian Committee on the History of the Second World War) and currently is an historian... Continue Reading →
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 