From A Stretcher Handle
Private FRANK WALKER[1893-1977]Field Ambulance, 1st Canadian Contingent From a Stretcher Handle: The World War I Journal & Poems of Pte. Frank Walker is a first-person narrative centred around the life and times of Prince Edward Islander Frank Walker (1893-1977), during his service with the Canadian Field Ambulance, Canadian Medical Corps, from its inception in 1914 until 1919, after the Great War had come to a close. Frank Walker was my maternal grandfather. https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/those-who-served/diaries-letters-stories/first-world-war/walker In the 2014 documentary special Canada’s Soldier marking the hundredth anniversary of Vimy Ridge, CBC News correspondent, Peter Mansbridge retraces the steps that Canadians took as they were dispatched … Continue reading →