| LC control no. | nr 91008947 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS8501.C72 CaOONL |
| Personal name heading | Acland, Peregrine |
| Variant(s) | Acland, Peregrine, 1891-1963 |
| Associated country | Canada |
| Birth date | 1891-05-15 |
| Death date | 1963-05-11 |
| Place of birth | Toronto (Ont.) |
| Place of death | Toronto (Ont.) |
| Field of activity | Advertising |
| Affiliation | Ottawa (Ont.). Department of Finance Canada. Canadian Army. Highlanders of Canada, 48th |
| Found in | His All else in folly, 1929: t.p. (Peregrine Acland) All else is folly, 2014: title page (Peregrine Acland) back cover (Peregrine Acland (1891-1963)) Library and Archives Canada, via WWW, April 11, 2016 (Peregrine Palmer Acland; Peregrine Palmer Acland (1891-1963), author and military officer, was born May 15, 1891 in Toronto, Ontario; he attended University College School in London, England, and Upper Canada College in Toronto; after graduating from the University of Toronto in 1913, he worked for a short time for the Prince Rupert Daily News; he was then employed in the Department of Finance in Ottawa. Acland enlisted at Valcartier, Quebec, in September 1914 as a private in the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, but soon transferred to the 48th Highlanders of Canada; he went overseas on the SS Megantic with the First Canadian Contingent, as an officer in the 15th Battalion, attaining the rank of Major in 1916; Acland was badly wounded in the Battle of the Somme in June 1916 and served as a military instructor for the remainder of the war; he later entered the advertising business; from 1942 to 1950 he served as press officer to Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and then returned to advertising; he wrote vividly of his experiences at the Somme in his Great War novel All Else Is Folly: A Tale of War and Passion, which was published in 1929; Acland died on May 11, 1963 at the Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto) LAC internal file, March 4, 2019 (heading: Acland, Peregrine, 1891-1963; Canadian) |
| National bib agency no. | 1023H2209E |
| Associated language | eng |
| Quality code | nlc |
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