PEI History: Military
"From a Stretcher Handle allows us to journey with the foot soldiers of the Great War from their youthful,
exuberant march forward to 'Glory and Adventure' to the stark realization that war really has no glory."
                              - Mary F. Gaudet, From a Stretcher Handle
A Thousand Young Men
The Colonial Volunteer Militia of Prince Edward Island
1775-1874
David Webber

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Selected articles published in The Island Magazine
on the subject of P.E.I. Military history:

Prince County's Forgotten Military Past
Allan and Jessie Graham
The Island Magazine, No. 1

Uniform Excellence: A Circa 1798 Militia Coat
Preserved on Prince Edward Island
Rene Chartrand and Elton MacDonald
The Island Magazine, No. 21

Death From Above: Island Fliers in World War I
J. Clinton Morrison, Jr.
The Island Magazine, No. 22

That Mark Our Place: Island Ward Dead in Europe
Part One: The Second World War
Compiled by Elmer Phillips and Tanton McNeill, Introduction by Edward MacDonald
The Island Magazine, No. 24

Islanders and the Boer War
Darin MacKinnon and Boyde Beck
The Island Magazine, No. 26

Bloody Easter: Islanders at Vimy Ridge
J. Clinton Morrison
The Island Magazine, No. 31

'The Island's Florence Nightingale'
Boyde Beck and Adele Townshend
The Island Magazine, No. 34

Soldiers of Liberty: Islanders in the Civil War
Greg Marquis
The Island Magazine, No. 36

A Soldier's Story
John Sharkey
The Island Magazine, No. 37

Bill Reid's War
Earle Kennedy and Boyde Beck
The Island Magazine, No. 38

Don MacLean's War
Earle Kennedy and Boyde Beck
The Island Magazine, No. 39

An Island Unit: The 2nd Siege Battery in the Great War (Part One)
Earle Kennedy and Boyde Beck
The Island Magazine, No. 49

An Island Unit: The 2nd Siege Battery in the Great War (Part Two)
Earle Kennedy and Boyde Beck
The Island Magazine, No. 50

I Would Not Have Missed It For The World: Sir Andrew Macphail's War
(Part One)
David Campbell
The Island Magazine, No. 51

I Would Not Have Missed It For The World: Sir Andrew Macphail's War
(Part Two)
David Campbell
The Island Magazine, No. 52

A Soldier of the 105th: Pte. Edward R. Morrison 712140, C.E.F.
J. Clinton Morrison
The Island Magazine, No. 55
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From a Stretcher Handle
The World War I Journal and Poems of Private Frank Walker
Edited by Mary F. Gaudet

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Red Soil
A Prince Edward Island Soldier's Life at the Front
Felix (LeRoy) Perry

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