Charlie's First War

Charles Henry Tweddell (1869-1921) was one of several thousand Canadian soldiers who fought with British forces in the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). A methodical diarist, Tweddell recounts his year of service from the time he left Quebec City until his return. Tweddell''s diary captures the sounds, sights, and stench of war, its friendships and rivalries, its routine and boredom, its death, d...