‘One day I would be in the infantry,’ Perron on Out Standing in the Field: A Memoir by Canada’s First Female Infantry Officer
Sandra Perron is shortlisted for the Writers’ Trust’s Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for her book, Out Standing in the Field: A Memoir by Canada’s First Female Infantry Officer, published by Cormorant Books.
By early 1989 there were still no women in combat, but I started hearing rumours of trials being conducted to perhaps allow them to join or transfer to the infantry, artillery, and armour classifications. They were called Combat-Related Employment for Women (CREW trials). I was hopeful I’d eventua...
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