Fergus, Ontario-born medical student Norman Craig wasn't yet 20
when he went to Egypt in 1915 with the Royal Army Medical Corps. He
soon transferred, however, to the Royal Naval Air Service,
finishing the war as a flight commander, leading a squadron of
Sopwith Camels stationed in Mudros. By war's end, most of his
boyhood friends had been killed. In 1932, after the town council he
described as "a group of unreasoning pacifists" had again put off
the construction of a war memorial in Fergus, Craig took matters
into his own hands. He wrote "You're Lucky If You're Killed," and
produced it in June, 1933, using a local cast and crew. It took
another two years but finally came Craig's Dawn Parade unveiling
the monument--which represents "any small town in Canada."
The play itself--one of Canada's first--has never been seen
again, despite some attempts in the early 1950s to resurrect &
publish the work. Craig wanted people to remember the war dead, not
his own actions, which he described as a "a small, overdue payment
on a large debt."
In this book, Dr. Craig's grandson--a Hollywood-based writer and
film director--makes public for the first time in 70 years the
original text &music of the play, as well as an overview of the
events that sparked its creation.
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