This episode draws on the account of Utah and Latter-day Saint voices who did their best to convey what it was like to fight in the Great War.
In this episode, we cover the experience of Arthur Guy Empey, a Utah native and grandson of Latter-day Saint pioneers, who left an indelible firsthand account about the horrors of going "over the top."
Calvin Smith, the son of LDS Church President Joseph F. Smith (and grandson of Hyrum Smith) became known as "Utah's Fighting Chaplain" for his willingness to join his charges in going "over the top."
This episode draws on the experiences of Thomas Neibar (Idaho), Arthur Guy Empey (Utah) Calvin Smith (Utah), Joseph Ransom (Idaho), William Potts (Utah), and Wilhelm Stoll (Germany), and Joseph Nielson (Utah).
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).
James Perry, British Latter-day Saints in the Great War, 1914-1918, 44 J. of Mormon Hist. 70 (July 2018).
Arthur Guy Empey, "Over the Top: by an American Soldier who Went" (1917).
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.
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.