THE CONTRIBUTORS TO MORE FIGHTING FOR
CANADA
Donald E. Graves, editor
The author, co-author or editor of fifteen books, including
Fighting for Canada, the companion volume to
More
Fighting for Canada, Donald E. Graves is one of Canada's best
known military historians. His study of a wartime Canadian armoured
unit,
South Albertas: A Canadian Regiment at War, is
regarded as a classic and his many titles on the War of 1812 have
established him as an authority on that subject. His current
writing project is a history of the South Alberta Light Horse.
Donald E. Graves is the managing director of Ensign Heritage, a
consulting firm with interests in historic sites, museums and
heritage touring. He is in demand as a battlefield tour leader for
both military units and civilian groups.
Christopher Johnson, illustrator
The cartographer and graphics illustrator for this book and its
companion volume, Christopher Johnson is a graduate in history from
Queen's University in Kingston. A serving officer of the Ontario
Provincial Police for 25 years, he has long had a fascination with
armoured fighting vehicles and military history. These interests
have led him into the field of computer-generated graphic art,
including maps and drawings, and he has contributed illustrations
to many books including: Michael Green, Patton and the Battle
of the Bulge; Donald E. Graves, South Albertas: A Canadian
Regiment at War; Field of Glory: The Battle of Crysler's Farm,
1813; Guns Across the River, The Battle of the Windmill, 1838;
Quebec 1759: The Siege and the Battle; and The Incredible
War of 1812; John Marteinson, The Royal Canadian Armoured
Corps and The Governor General's Horse Guards; John
Morris, Sword of the Border: Major General Jacob Jennings
Brown, 1775-1828. He is currently engaged in creating map and
graphic work for five more books.
Robert H. Caldwell, author of the study on Cut Knife
Hill, 1885
Robert (Bob) Caldwell is a westerner who joined the Canadian army
in 1960. Commissioned into the Fort Garry Horse in 1961, he served
for 35 years in command and staff appointments, mostly at the unit,
base and militia district level. He spent nine years in Europe, in
double tours with the Canadian NATO brigade in Germany and in Great
Britain, where he attended the Staff College at Shrivenham and
Camberley. He also served in two United Nations tours in the Middle
East. When the Fort Garry Horse were cut from the regular army,
Caldwell rebadged to the Royal Canadian Dragoons and his final
postings were in the Operational Research and Analysis
Establishment, and the Directorate of History and Heritage in
Ottawa. Bob Caldwell has an MA in War Studies from the Royal
Military College in Kingston and his thesis topic was on the
Canadian militia, Indian and MŽtis ways of war in the 1885 North
West Rebellion. He completed much of his research on three staff
postings in western Canada before moving to Kingston in 1985, and
that year the late Professor John Foster at the University of
Alberta had urged him to "Keep one foot in both camps -- one on the
St. Lawrence and one on the Saskatchewan -- that's the only way to
tell the story with balance, and above all else, we need balance."
Since 1995 Bob Caldwell has been researching and writing naval and
military history as part of the staff of Directorate of History and
Heritage and is one of the authors of
No Higher Purpose: The
Official Operational History of the Royal Canadian Navy in the
Second World War, 1939-1945.
John R. Grodzinski, author of the study on the Melfa
Crossing, 1944
John R. Grodzinski is a native of Hamilton, Ontario, and a
graduate in Political Science from McMaster University. After a
year as a field engineer, he transferred to the Royal Canadian
Armoured Corps, where he received his commission and served two
tours with his regiment, Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians),
in Calgary, and later in staff positions in Winnipeg, Halifax and
Kingston. Major Grodzinski spent six years as the Managing Editor
of The Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin, a professional
quarterly journal on Canadian army issues. He has also held
appointments as museum officer for his regiment; director of public
relations and historian at the Museum of the Regiments in Calgary;
and executive secretary of the Army Museum in Halifax. He is author
of The Battle of Moreuil Wood (1993), The Operational
Handbook on the First Canadian Army (1996), and co-author of a
study of Moreuil Wood in Fighting for Canada: Seven Battles,
1758-1945, and is also a regular contributor to other
journals. In 2002, Major Grodzinski completed a Masters of Arts in
War Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada and his thesis
on the War of 1812 on the Upper St Lawrence River was nominated for
the Governor General's Gold Medal for Academic Excellence. His
interests include 18th and 19th century North American warfare;
formation and unit organization and tactics; and the evolution and
application of tactical doctrine from 1750 to the present. Major
Grodzinski has also led many military battlefield tours of battle
sites both in North America and Europe.
Ian M. McCulloch, author of the study on Sillery,
1760
A native of Halifax and educated in Scotland and Switzerland,
Ian McCulloch holds a degree in journalism from Carleton University
in Ottawa and a Master's Degree in War Studies from the Royal
Military College of Canada. He joined the Canadian army in 1977 and
served in a variety of regimental and staff appointments in Canada
and Germany before assuming command of The Black Watch (Royal
Highland Regiment) of Canada in 1993. In 1996 he was appointed
Deputy Director of History and Heritage of the Canadian Forces in
Ottawa and, since 2000, he has been the Special Assistant to the
Director General, Health Services, Ottawa. A military historian
specializing in the Seven Years War in North America, Ian McCulloch
has published numerous articles on that subject in such periodicals
as the Osprey Military Journal, Battlefield Review, Canadian
Military History, The Beaver, Canadian Infantry Journal and
The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum as well as
serving as an historical consultant for the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation's documentary "Canada: A People's History." A
contributor to Fighting for Canada, Ian McCulloch's
current projects include: a book entitled British Light
Infantryman of the Seven Years War, 1756-1763, North America
(Osprey, Oxford, 2004); co-editing a rare "voice-from-the-ranks"
memoir (initially published in 1775) entitled "Through So Many
Dangers:" The Memoirs and Adventures of Robert Kirk, Late of the
Royal Highland Regiment to be published by Purple Mountain
Press and Robin Brass Studio in 2004; and his next book, Sons
of the Mountains: A History of the Highland Regiments in North
America, 1756-1767.
Michael R. McNorgan, author of the study on Iwuy,
1918
Major (Retd.) Michael McNorgan is a native of London, Ontario,
and holds a Master's Degree in History from Carleton University. A
former member of the First Hussars, he has recently retired after
more than 30 years of service in the Canadian Forces. A lifelong
student of mounted warfare, Mike McNorgan is the author of a study
in Fighting for Canada>/i> and co-author of The
Royal Canadian Armoured Corps: An Illustrated History. His latest
book is The Gallant Hussars: A History of the First Hussars
Regiment, 1856-2004.
Brian Reid, author of the study on Paardeberg,
1900
Lieutenant Colonel (Retd.) Brian Reid was born in Fort Erie,
Ontario, and joined the regular Canadian army in 1957 as a gunner
before being commissioned through the Officer Candidate Programme
in 1961. During a military career that spanned nearly four decades,
Brian Reid served in regimental, staff and liaison appointments in
Canada, Europe and the United States. His last appointment, prior
to his retirement in 1994, was in the Joint Plans and Operations
Staff at National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa. Brian Reid is the
author of
Our Little Army in the Field: The Canadians in South
Africa, two studies in
Fighting for Canada, Seven Battles,
1758-1945, and co-author of
RCHA - Right of the Line,
and has contributed a number of magazine articles on military
history topics. He is currently working on a study of Operations
Totalize and Tractable in Normandy in 1944, and on a history of the
Royal Winnipeg Rifles.