This episode continues the story of Latter-day Saints in the Great War, 1914-1918. Whether Americans, Germans, Canadians or British, Latter-day Saints either volunteered or were conscripted into their nation's Armed Forces. Then began the long, grueling process of hammering the one-time citizens into Soldiers.
This episode explores, from the first-hand accounts of US, UK, Canadian and German Latter-day Saints what it was like to train for war. Key Words: J. Reuben Clark, Archibald Bennett, Hugh B. Brown, Ivan A. Farnsworth, Lester Hubbard, Elmer Baddley, William Barth, Arthur Guy Empey.
To learn more about the information in this episode, please check out the following (excellent!) sources:
Robert Freeman & Andrew Skinner, Saints at War: World War I (2018), available at https://www.amazon.com/Saints-Andrew-Skinner-Robert-Freeman/dp/1462122329. A true labor of love, Dr. Freeman and Dr. Skinner have compiled many first-hand accounts from Latter-day Saint veterans of World War I from many different nations.
James Perry, British Latter-day Saints in the Great War, 1914-1918, 44 J. of Mormon Hist. 70 (July 2018).
James L. Mangum, The Influence of the First World War on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, BYU Thesus (23 Jan. 2007), https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1839&context=etd.
Arthur Guy Empey, "Over the Top:" by an American Soldier Who Went, Together with Tommy's Dictionary of the Trenches (1917).
G.J. Meyer, A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914-1918 (2006).
Jeffrey L. Anderson, Mormons and Germany, 1914-1933: A History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Germany and its Relationship Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Germany and its Relationship With the German Governments from World War I to the Rise of With the German Governments from World War I to the Rise of Hitler, BYU Thesis and Dissertation (1991), https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5475&context=etd.