Your Daughter Fanny: The War Letters of Frances Cluett, VAD Edited by Bill Rompkey and Bert Riggs

ISBN 1-894463-92-7 Non-fiction, Paperback, 196 pages, b&w photos Price: CDN$14.95 Qty:

Book Description Frances Cluett was born in Belleoram, Newfoundland, in 1883. At the age of thirty-three, she left her Fortune Bay home to join the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD), an organization committed to assisting military personnel during World War I. She trained in London, England, for work in a military hospital and in 1917 was stationed at the 10th General Hospital in Rouen, France. During her four years of service overseas, Nurse Cluett wrote many letters to home. Contained here are the war letters she sent to her mother in Newfoundland, telegrams describing the atrocities of war, the valiant deeds of comrades in arms, and the despair of young men dying on foreign shores. About the Authors Bert Riggs (born December 21, 1954) holds a B.A. and a B.Ed. from Memorial University and a masters in information studies from the University of Toronto. He has been an archivist at Memorial University since 1989 and currently is head of the Archives and Manuscripts Division at the university’s Queen Elizabeth II Library. He writes a weekly column for the St. John’s Telegram, is a bencher with the Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador, and is chair of the board of the Resource Centre for the Arts, owners and operators of the LSPU Hall. Bill Rompkey, PC, M.A., LL.D. (born May 13, 1936) is a Canadian politician. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1972 federal election as the Liberal member of Parliament (M.P.) for Grand Falls–White Bay–Labrador, the first of seven consecutive election victories. In 1995, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien appointed Rompkey to the Canadian Senate where he still serves. In 2001, he became government whip in the Senate and was deputy leader of the government in the Senate until February 2006.