1. A. Soby, A Study on Demobilization and Rehabilitation of the Canadian Armed Forces in the Second World War, 1939–1945, report no. 97, Historical Section (G. S.), Army Headquarters, May 1960, 60–68.
2. We use the term “veteran” in its strict sense. It is important to clarify this point for the industrial armies of the Second World War have rarely mobilized more than 10 percent of their effectives in combat positions. See P. Fussell, Wartime. Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War (New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), 283.
3. Fonds Béatrice Richard, série 1;B Richard,1995
4. B. Cabanes, “Le retour du soldat au XXe siècle. Perspectives de recherche,” Revue historique des armées 245 (2006): 4–15.
5. J. Bourke, “Going Home: The Personal Adjustment of British and American Servicemen after the War,” in R. Bessel and D. Schumann (eds.), Life after Death: Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe during the 1940s and the 1950s, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 149–160. Quoted in B. Cabanes, “Le retour du soldat au XXe siècle.”