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Within ten days of the Newfoundland Governor receiving the 'Spring Rice Document', two armed patrol vessels, each carrying an armed forty man unit of the Newfoundland Regiment, were on their way to the Harbour Deep area of northern Newfoundland. The Newfoundland Government, acting on information contained in the document, ordered all enemy aliens in Newfoundland to be detained; including eight of nine Moravian missionaries in Labrador. While these events were unfolding, Newfoundlanders in Europe were being slaughtered in battles fought on poorly based strategies, which Winston Churchill described as "doomed offences". The Spring Rice Document not only tells the story of Newfoundland in WWI, but also sheds new light on the decisions made and the battles fought and enhances the admiration and respect for those whose courage, dedication, and loyalty contributed to changing world history.
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Spring Rice Document, The: Newfoundland at War 1914 - 1918; signed copy
Published by
Breakwater Books Ltd., St John's Newfoundland, 2011
ISBN 10: 1897174799
ISBN 13: 9781897174791
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Soft cover
First Edition
Signed
Seller: Harry E Bagley Books, Fredericton, NB, Canada
Seller rating 2 out of 5 stars
Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. pictorial paper, 219 pages : illustrations, CONTENRS: 1. The Sprinc Rice document -- 2. Doubted usefulness of submarines -- 3. From a dismal start -- 4. "Kick 'em to blue blazes" -- 5. Doomed offences -- 6. The great experiment at Cambrai -- 7. Wartime courage and daring -- Appendix to chapter 7 : Honours awarded to Royal Newfoundland Regiment members -- 8. The last days -- 9. WWI miscellany.Includes bibliographical references. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book. Seller Inventory # 1125559575