Ebook: Letters from Beauly: Pat Hennessy and the Canadian Forestry Corps in Scotland, 1940-1945

Pat Hennessy and 15 Company, Canadian Forestry Corps -- From Valcartier to Scotland -- Arrival in Scotland -- Meeting the locals -- England and the search for Mrs. Haggerty -- Settling in for the duration -- Ireland -- Social relations -- The children left behind -- Fred Cogswell, poet of the camp -- Oxford University -- Alleyne Hubbard, an irreplaceable loss -- Longing for home.;"During the Second World War, hundreds of New Brunswick woodsmen joined the Canadian Forestry Corps to log the Scottish Highlands as part of the Canadian war effort. Patrick "Pat" Hennessy of Bathurst was one of them. For five years, Pat served as camp cook with 15 Company of the Canadian Forestry Corps near the ancient town of Beauly, Scotland. A middle-aged New Brunswick farmer and lumberman with a third grade education, Pat saw more of the world than he had ever dreamed of, visiting ancient battlefields he had learned about as a child, travelling to his ancestral Ireland, and attending a course of lectures in British history at Oxford University. While in Scotland, Pat regularly corresponded with his family in New Brunswick. Drawing from this unique collection of more than three hundred letters, as well as hundreds of archival documents and photographs, Melynda Jarratt provides a rare glimpse of what life was like for Canadian servicemen overseas and for their relatives at home."--