Service and Sacrifice. The Gaspé Coast and the Two World Wars.

Episode Three. Part One. The Canadians prepare the assault on Vimy Ridge.

All units of the Canadian Corps were assembled near the French city of Arras, in preparation of a major assault on the German positions at Vimy Ridge. A promising young soldier from Gaspé, Sgt. Ralph Stewart Fitzpatrick was killed in action on March 24th 1917 while conducting a trench raid prior to the main attack. He was two days shy of his 23rd birthday.

Episode Two. Part Three. The Battle of the Somme.

Recruiting comes to the Gaspé Coast. Cousins James and William Palmer sign up on the same day. Daniel Miller leaves his fiancee and their new house behind. Even Gaspé's Anglican minister, Rev. John Wayman, joins up. Leo LeBoutillier receives the Distinguished Conduct Medal.

Episode Two. Part Two. Ypres and the Battle of Mount Sorrel.

Young Gaspesians travel to recruiting centres eager to serve, within months many of them are either killed or wounded in France and Belgium.

Episode Two. Part One. Gaspé's Leo LeBoutillier joins the Victoria Rifles.

While the First Canadian Division is fighting in Belgium, Gaspé's Leo LeBoutillier, joins the 24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles) in Montreal, and after a wild send-off, heads across the Atlantic to England.

Episode One, Part Four. At The Front, Gas! Gas! Gas!, and In Flanders Fields.

The First Canadian Division leaves England to join the fighting on the Western Front. A Stanley Cup winner born in Douglastown is the first Gaspesian wounded in World War One, Canadians are victims of a gas attack, and John McCrae writes In Flanders Fields.

Episode One. Part Three. Here Come The Canadians.

In the weeks that followed the outbreak of World War One, the Canadian Expeditionary Force trains in Valcartier, and a convoy leaves Gaspé Bay, onto England. Among the soldiers in that convoy, the first son of the Gaspé Coast to have won the Stanley Cup.

Episode One, Part Two.

Europe goes to war.

Episode One, Part One.

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo sets the stage for World War One.

Philip Doddridge discusses his new found freedom. August 1945.

Battle of Hong Kong Veteran Philip Doddridge (Royal Rifles of Canada, E29986) discusses the days and weeks following his liberation from Sham Shui Po Japanese prisoner of war camp, Kowloon, Hong Kong in August of 1945.
 
This is rough cut footage from a longer form recording which took place at the Chaleur Bay Military Museum in New Richmond Québec in October of 2014. Interviewer: Tom Eden

Service and Sacrifice. The Gaspé Coast and the Two World Wars.

Introduction of the "Service and Sacrifice. The Gaspé Coast and the Two World Wars" podcast series with producer Tom Eden and history adviser Félix Fournier.