The Invisible Soldier
Captain W.A.P. Durie, His Life and Afterlife
In November, 1915, a shy, cosseted and rather pompous bank clerk left Canada to fight as a lieutenant on the battlefields of Europe. Despite genteel poverty, his mother had raised him to be the heir to both military greatness and aristocratic splendour. She even followed him to Europe in an attempt to manipulate his destiny. But in the awful killing ground of the Ypres Salient, and subsequently at Vimy and Passchendaele, William Arthur Peel Durie came to understand something of the man he was, instead of the man he was supposed to be. Mother was not pleased.
When her son died in the trenches of France, Anna Durie could once again control his fate. Despite the dictates of Britain and…
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September 3, 2013Veronica Cusack is a writer based in Toronto. She won a National Magazine Award for her article about William Arthur Peel Durie and his mother’s mission, which developed into The Invisible Soldier. This is her first book.
