Memoirs & Diaries
Captivating accounts
Lieutenant Alfred Cantin DCM MM
How I Remember the Forty-Ninth (1972)
An original member of the 49th Battalion (E.R.), Alf Cantin enlisted at the age of 15. By the end of the war, he was an officer and amongst the most decorated in the battalion.
Private John Bartle Hayfield
Private Diary 1918-1919
A career criminal in Montana who upon his release in 1917, enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force. His brother was killed at Passchendaele with the Forty-Ninth, he was his replacement in "B" Company.