Lieutenant Owen William Steele of the Newfoundland Regiment

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"Lieutenant Owen William Steele volunteered for the famed Newfoundland Regiment in late summer 1914. His war diary, begun as he embarked for England, relates the experiences of his regiment training on Salisbury Plain and in Scotland, baptism of fire at Gallipoli, recuperation in Egypt, and, finally, the battlefields of France. Along the way his sense of adventure turns to a growing weariness with war, a desire to return home, and an underlying hope that he will survive. His diary ends twenty-two months later on the eve of the Battle of the Somme at Beaumont Hemel, a few days before his death."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Biographies,  Campaigns,  Correspondence,  Diaries,  Grande-Bretagne,  Grande-Bretagne. Army. Newfoundland Regiment,  Great Britain,  Great Britain. Army. Newfoundland Regiment, 1st,  Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918,  Newfoundland Personal narratives,  Regimental histories,  Récits personnels terneuviens,  Soldiers,  World War, 1914-1918,  Great Britain. Army. Newfoundland Regiment,  Biography,  Biography: general,  European history: First World War,  Warfare & Defence,  World history: First World War,  Steele, Owen William,  Military Land Forces,  Western Front,  Military History - World War I,  Newfoundland,  History,  Biography / Autobiography,  Military,  Europe,  Army,  Military Science,  Personal narratives, Newfoundland,  Military - World War I,  Great britain, army,  Military biography,  World war, 1914-1918, personal narratives,  Personal narratives,  Great Britain. Army. Royal Newfoundland Regiment

People: Owen William Steele

Places: Newfoundland,  Newfoundland and Labrador,  North Africa,  Western Front