Farley Mowat passed away on May 7, 2014, aged 92.
The prolific Canadian writer and environmentalist was just shy of his 93rd birthday on May 12.
Mowat was also a veteran of the Second World War. In Canada, we mark the end of the war on May 8. He served as an officer with the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment in Italy and northwest Europe. He led an infantry platoon in Italy. Later, Mowat was an intelligence officer in Holland where, for a while, he was part of the Canadian museum collection team finding artefacts for the Canadian war museum.
Mowat wrote about his experiences in three books: The regiment (1955), And no birds sang (1979), and My father’s son (1993).
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