Book: Seeing It Through: Manitoba’s Soldiers 1914-1919

By using unpublished letters, memoirs and recollections of Manitoba’s soldiers, Manitoba newspaper articles, as well as the Battalion War Diaries of the 8th Battalion (90th Winnipeg Rifles), 27th (City of Winnipeg), 43rd (Cameron Highlanders of Canada) and the 44th (Manitoba) Infantry battalions, Seeing It Through explores the thoughts and experiences of young men who served “King and Empire” during the Great War. In battles from 2nd Ypres in April 1915 to the taking of Mons in November 1918 these four Manitoba infantry battalions suffered some 6,000 dead and 10,000 other casualties.

Compiled by Ian Stewart Curator, Royal Winnipeg Rifles Museum