The RCR in the Great War
War Diary
Battle Honours
Honours and Awards
Roll of Honour
Prisoners of War
Cemetery List
Cemetery Map
Courts Martial
Officers
NCOs and Soldiers
An Officer's Diary (1914-1918)
Recollections of a Nonagenerian (R. England) (1916-1919)
On to Bermuda (1914-15)
Overseas with The Royals (1915)
Amiens (1918)
Cambrai (1918)
Monchy-le-Preux (1918)
Badges - Signs of the Times
The 7th Trench Mortar Battery
A Regimental Goat
Regiment and Family, Bermuda 1914-15
The First World War
Recollections of a Nonagenarian
of Service in The Royal Canadian Regiment (1916-19)
by Robert England, M.C.
Recollections of a Nonagenarian of Service in The Royal Canadian Regiment (1916-19)
- 1916; and 1917 before Vimy.
- 1917; Vimy Ridge.
- June 1917 to the Summer of 1918.
- 1918; August to Demobilization.
- Post-War Reflections on the Permanent Force in the C.E.F.
- Footnotes, Endnotes and Appendices.
N.B.: This division of the original manuscript and page titling has been added to facilitate presentation on line.
These notes by Lieutenant Robert England were written in 1983 and privately published in the centennial year of The Royal Canadian Regiment. They describe his period of service with The Royal Canadian Regiment during the First World War. As he has commented in the endnotes, readers are advised: "This memoir is personal and assumes [the] reader will look to published histories for the World War I background and story of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France."
This relatively rare work is presented to provide one more source for anyone researching The Royal Canadian Regiment in the Great War. In on-line searches, only four bibliographical references to these Recollections were found. It is not believed that they have been made available in any form other than the limited issue in 1983.