Book: 8th Princess Louise’s (New Brunswick) Hussars, Corporal Harold Jorgen Skaarup,

New Brunswick Hussar, Corporal Harold Jorgen Skaarup In April 1941, my uncle Harold Jorgen Skaarup, raised in the Danish community of New Denmark, New Brunswick, came down to the City of Fredericton and joined the Canadian Army. His parents Anne and Frederick were well aware of the potential horror of war that Harold would face. … Read more

Book: Whiz Bangs & Woolly Bears, Walter Estabrooks and the Great World War

This is a story about a soldier of the Great War and his experiences as an artillery gunner in France. One example: “Passchendaele was just one glorious mudhole. We were there 42 days. Kept 24 men on the guns and lost 42 in the time, an average of one a day.”