The Memoir of Wilfred Kerr, Canadian Field Artillery, 1917. In “Shrieks and Crashes” Wilfred Kerr recalls his first year of war, 1917. As a member of an artillery battery in the Canadian Expeditionary Force he fought in Canada’s great victory at Vimy Ridge and through the horrors of Passchendaele. An exceptionally detailed account of war, originally published in 1929.

by Wilfrid Kerr