Primary Documents and Official Accounts:
G.W.L. Nicholson, Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War: Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919. Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1964. (Available online as a PDF.) http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/oh-ho/detail-eng.asp?BfBookLang=1&BfId=22 See Chapter 11: The Battles of the Somme, July- November 1916. Historians’ Perspectives: Introductory articles available online: Legion Magazine: Canadian Military History in Perspective Series Fateful Decisions on the Somme: Army, Part 56 January 1, 2005 by Terry Copp https://legionmagazine.com/en/2005/01/fateful-decisions-on-the-somme/ Legion Magazine: Canada & the Victoria Cross Series Valour on the Somme: Part 5 of 18 September 1, 2004 by Arthur Bishop https://legionmagazine.com/en/2004/09/valour-on-the-somme/ |
Internet Resources:
Veterans Affairs Canada - Battles of the Somme and Beaumont-Hamel http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/first-world-war/somme-beaumont-hamel Library and Archives Canada - We Were There – Claudius Corneloup (22nd French Canadian Battalion) Courcelette (Exerpts from his book (in French), other info about Courcelette photos, paintings, maps.) http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/firstworldwar/025005-2200-e.html Oral Histories of the First World War: Veterans 1914-1918 (Contains several interviews with transcripts and photos.) http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/first-world-war/interviews/025015-1400-e.html |