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- Title
J.L. Ralston and the First World War.
- Authors
Byers, Daniel
- Abstract
James Layton Ralston is well-known in Canadian history for his role as minister of National Defence during the Second World War. Yet he had a long and distinguished career before the 1940s. This article reconstructs Ralston’s early life, up to and especially during the First World War, when he rose to command the 85th Battalion (Nova Scotia Highlanders). For Ralston the war confirmed a sense of concern for and service to others with which he had apparently been raised from an early age. A study of his experiences during the war also tells us much about his many strengths of character, and hints at some of the less positive personal traits that would come to cause him difficulty in later years – as well as the origins of his devotion to veterans, and his views towards conscription that shaped his later positions as a public figure.
- Subjects
CANADA; RALSTON, James Layton; POLITICIANS; RALSTON, Burnett William; MCLEOD, Nettie; DALHOUSIE University; CANADA. Dept. of National Defence; WORLD War I; EMPLOYEES; BIOGRAPHY (Literary form)
- Publication
Canadian Military History, 2013, Vol 22, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
1195-8472
- Publication type
Biography