Justin Robert Helm

The Canadian Forestry Corps No.13 Company Justin Robert Helm

This is the first book ever written on The Canadian Forestry Corps No.13 Company. No.13 COY was a specialized military unit recruited from Nova Scotia, Canada. During WW2, the Company was deployed overseas to Scotland and began harvesting wood crucial to the war effort on vast aristocratic estates. The achievements of the Company while under tremendous physical, logistical, environmental challenges and constant enemy attack is nothing short of astounding. This well researched and exhaustive study encompasses all aspects of the Company from recruitment to wars end. Company equipment, training, convoys, camp locations, items produced, areas frequented, production statistics, artists, stories, as well as a complete list of all the soldiers in the company are but some of the topics discussed in this book. If you enjoy Military History, Nova Scotian History, Canadian History or stories from people who survived an incredible journey fraught with peril and hardship then this is the book for you. Open the book and retrace the footsteps of the Nova Scotian Sawdust Fusiliers.