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“A beating every day”: The Story of Léo Pitre

Chapter Ten

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From: Bombs and Barbed Wire

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Chapter Ten focuses on the story of Léo Pitre from Jacquet River, New Brunswick, describing his time in Hong Kong in 1941 with the Royal Rifles of Canada and the Winnipeg Grenadiers, capture and defeat at the hands of the Japanese, the cruelty shown to POWs by the Japanese soldiers, illnesses at camp, lack of food, torturing of prisoners, trying to escape, and his hard road to recovery after the war.

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Ronald Cormier

A resident of Dieppe, New Brunswick, Ronald Cormier is the author of J’ai vécu la guerre (published in English as The Forgotten Soldiers), Entre bombes et barbelés, Les Acadiens et la Seconde Guerre mondiale, and Bombs and Barbed Wire. Cormier worked as a television producer in news and current affairs with Radio-Canada in Moncton before writing and directing four episodes of Turning Points of History for History Television about the Second World War and Korean War.