Birth of a Regiment, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry 1914-1919

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dc.contributor.authorKempling, James S.
dc.contributor.supervisorZimmerman, David
dc.date.accessioned2012-01-20T22:21:39Z
dc.date.available2012-01-20T22:21:39Z
dc.date.copyright2011en_US
dc.date.issued2011-12-05
dc.degree.departmentDept. of Historyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis uses a web site as its primary format. Readers are invited to visit www.birthofaregiment.com. Financed by a wealthy Montreal businessman, the original regiment was very British in its make-up. The Patricia’s were recruited and trained separate from the Canadian Expeditionary Force. For the first year of the war, they fought in a British brigade, under British officers using British weapons. By 1919, the PPCLI were distinctly Canadian. The Patricia’s became the best known Canadian regiment and one of three retained in the permanent force. This thesis examines that remarkable transition, the changes wrought by the war and the mechanisms used to reinforce the unique image of the Patricia’s. It also tests several myths embodied in the histories of the Regiment against a database of over five thousand files of soldiers who served with the Patricia’s during the First World War.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.citationBirth of a regiment, 2011 (http://www.birthofaregiment.com)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/3826
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherwww.birthofaregiment.comen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectPrincess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantryen_US
dc.subjectPPCLIen_US
dc.subjectWorld War Oneen_US
dc.subjectFirst World Waren_US
dc.subjectCanadaen_US
dc.subjectHamilton Gaulten_US
dc.subjectFarquharen_US
dc.subjectFrezenbergen_US
dc.subjectMount Sorrelen_US
dc.subjectVimy Ridgeen_US
dc.subjectPasschendaeleen_US
dc.subjectCanal du Norden_US
dc.subjectWeaponsen_US
dc.titleBirth of a Regiment, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry 1914-1919en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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