Riding Into War: The Memoir of a Horse Transport Driver, 1916-1919 - Johnston, James Robert

As New; Volume 4 in the New Brunswick Military Heritage Series. The popular image of the Great War is of the trenches, but Jimmie Johnston experienced the triumph of Vimy and the hell of Passchendaele from a saddle. A horse driver in the transport section of the Canadian Machine Gun Corps, he hauled machine guns and ammunition to the front lines through shellfire, darkness, driving rain, and suffocating mud. James Robert Johnston grew up on a farm at Notre Dame, near Moncton, New Brunswick, and enlisted when he was 18 years old. In 1964, he toured the battlefields he remembered so vividly and recorded his recollections. Riding into War is his gripping memoir. 
As New
Soft cover
Goose Lane Editions
2004
Fredericton, NB