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category: Biography & Autobiography
published: Nov 2017
ISBN:9781772032154
publisher: Heritage House Publishing

Morrison

The Long-Lost Memoir of Canada's Artillery Commander in the Great War

by Susan Raby-Dunne & Edward Morrison Major-General Sir

tagged: historical, world war i, military
Description

The never-before-published memoir of Major-General Sir Edward Morrison, a true Canadian hero of the First World War.

The First World War marked a turning point in Canadian history and in Canada’s self-identification as a nation. Yet in memorializing the iconic events and battles of the War, certain key individuals who participated have been lost in our collective memory. One of those individuals is Major-General Sir Edward Morrison.

Morrison was instrumental in the Canadian Army’s efforts and achievements throughout the War, but especially from 1916 until 1918, when he commanded all Canadian artillery, including at the battles of Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele. An accomplished journalist who was the editor of both the Hamilton Spectator and the Ottawa Citizen, Morrison recorded his experiences, strategies, darkly humourous observations, and insights into the nature of modern warfare in a memoir that he completed but never published before his death in 1925. Now, with the permission of his estate, Morrison’s words are made public for the first time, with a thought-provoking introduction by military historian Susan Raby-Dunne. Morrison: The Long-lost Memoir of Canada’s Artillery Commander in the Great War is a fascinating and highly readable historical document that brings a rawness and immediacy to a century-old conflict.

About the Authors

Susan Raby-Dunneis an author, military historian, composer, and veteran who lives in Longview, Alberta. Her military musical version of the poem “In Flanders Fields” debuted on CBC radio, and internationally in 2006, and is an official fundraiser for the Poppy Fund. After years of ranching and breeding horses, she now devotes herself to writing, and works part time at the Bomber Command Museum of Canada in Nanton, Alberta. Susan is on the board of directors and Canadian contact for the charity Soldier’s Heart.


Born in London, Ontario, in 1867, Edward Morrison served overseas in the Boer War and World War I, and was promoted to major-general in 1918. He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1919. He died in 1925.

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