Andrew Iarocci teaches history at Western University and the Royal Military College of Canada. He is a former collections manager for transportation and artillery at the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa. He has written about Canadian operations and logistics during the two world wars, and the material culture of modern conflict more generally.
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This presentation explores various dimensions of automobile and mechanical transportation use in the context of the Canadian overseas forces throughout the First World War, a conflict that coincided with the birth of the automobile age.