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Frederic C. (Crawford) Curry
1891–1965
A Canadian officer turned his early experience of the First World War into a brisk, firsthand account of the 1st Canadian Brigade. His best-known book brings readers close to the march from Canada to the Western Front and the hard reality of the opening campaigns.
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From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigade
by Frederic C. (Crawford) Curry
About the author
Born in 1891, Frederic C. (Crawford) Curry is best known for From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian Brigade, a wartime memoir and history first published in 1916. Project Gutenberg and other catalog records identify him as the book's author and preserve the form of his name as "Frederic C. (Crawford) Curry."
The book draws on Curry's service as an officer with the 2nd Eastern Ontario Regiment in the 1st Canadian Brigade during the First World War. Written close to the events it describes, it stands out for its direct, eyewitness perspective on mobilization, training, and the brigade's early fighting in Europe.
Reliable biographical detail beyond his military authorship is limited in the sources I could confirm here, so it is safest to remember him chiefly as a soldier-writer whose work offers a contemporary Canadian view of the war's opening years. He lived from 1891 to 1965.