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PEAT, Harold R. Private Peat. By Harold R. Peat, Ex-Third Battalion First Canadian Contingent. With Maps and Illustrations. Toronto : George J. McLeod, Limited, Publishers, (copyright 1917). Pp (14),1-235,(9), + portrait frontispiece +15 plates. Several maps and a diagram in the rext. 8vo, light brown cloth, white lettering to front and spine. Tennyson, The Canadian Experience of the Great War : A Guide to Memoirs 1422; Watters p.560, Rhodenizer p.662, Cooke p.141. Harold Reginald Peat (b. July 12, 1893, Jamaica, then broght to Toronto, he returned to Jamaica after the war and died in 1960. Hejoined up with the 9th Battalion, 101st Edmonton Fusiliers. Contents: 1. T heCall to Arms; 2. In the Old Country; 3. Back to Canada-I Don't Think; 4. Are We Downhearted? No! ; 5. Under Fire; 6. The Mad Major; 7. Who Started the War? 8. "And Out of Evil There Shall Come That Which is Good"; 9. All Fussed Up and No Place to Go; 10. Hello! Sky-Pilot!; 11. Vive la France et alBelge !; 12. Canadians-That's All; 13. Tears and No Cheers; 14. "The Best o' Luck- and Give 'Em Hell !'; 15. Out of It; 16. German Terminological Inexactitudes; 17. The Last Chapter; The Ten Commandments of a Soldier While on Active Service; Some Things That We Ought and Ought Not to Send.
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Born in Jamaica, and emigrated to Toronto with his mother, Peat was educated privately and at boarding school in Kingston, Jamaica. Louisa Watson Small was born in Keady, Armagh, Ireland and educated at Queens College, Belfast and the University of London.
University of London.
He served as a private in the 3rd Battalion of the First Canadian Contingent during World War I. He was hit by an explosive bullet and lost his right arm. While recuperating in a hospital, he became pen-mate with Louisa Watson Small, a British writer Louisa helped Harold write Private (1917), a memoir of his experiences during World War I and after.
He described himself as an ardent Prohibitionist but in the book he said he did not think the rum ration controversially issued to Canadian troops was dangerous.
The book was on the New York Times bestseller list in 1918 and 1919. A movie, directed by Edward jose" was made of the book, with starring as himself, Miriam Fouche and William Sorelle acted in the movie with.
The screenplay was written by Charles East. Whittaker. The producer was Famous Players-Lasky Corporation () was also a contributor to various magazines and traveled to Australia and New Zealand during this period.
One of several grandchildren, L. O"Neil, is a travel writer and new media writer ran a Speakers Bureau in New York before and after World World War World War II "s speakers included Winston Churchill, Robert East. Peary, Lady Baden-Powell, Thomas Mann, Lillian Hellman, Ilka Chase, H.G. Wells, Alice Longworth and Jesse Stuart among others
Louisa died in 1953. Harold"s second wife, Grace Sims, was a graduate of the University of Alabama and a pilot. Papers from the Lecture Bureau are found at the University of Alabama, along with papers of Grace Sims. retired to Jamaica after World World War II and ran a beach hotel for a few years. renamed Dry Harbor to Discovery Bay, Saint Ann"s Parish, Jamaica.
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The couple lectured and toured, promoting their books, which included The Inexcusable Lie (1923), a treatise against nationalism and destructive patriotism that wastes the youth of nations.
