Sydney F. Wise Explained
Sydney F. Wise |
Birth Date: | 14 November 1924 |
Birth Place: | Toronto, Canada |
Death Place: | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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Awards: | Order of Canada |
Sydney Francis Wise is a Canadian historian who became the official historian of the Canadian military in 1966.
Career
He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942 and became a pilot. He enrolled in the Royal Military College of Canada. After graduating he became a professor there, Queens College and Carleton University. In 1966, he was called upon and accepted the position of the official historian of the Canadian military. In 1989 he received the Order of Canada.
Operation Spring scandal
The destruction of the Canada's Black Watch unit during the Operation Spring of the Normandy invasion was seen as a scandal and there were rumours of a Canadian coverup. These rumours were made worse by Stacy and Sydney F. Wise conspired to "keep the only surviving copy of the preliminary report on Operation Spring from Major Griffin’s relatives." The two had actually saved the surviving copy of the report against orders.
Written work
- Book: Wise. Sydney F.. Sydney F. Wise. Brown. Robert Craig . Canada Views the United States: Nineteenth-century Political Attitudes. 1967. University of Washington Press. 9780295785509. - Total pages: 139
- Book: Preston. Richard Arthur . Wise. Sydney F. . Sydney F. Wise. Men in Arms: A History of Warfare and Its Interrelationships with Western Society. 1979. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. 9780030456817. - Total pages: 450
- Book: Wise, Sydney F. . Sydney F. Wise. Canadian Airmen and the First World War. 1980. 1980. University of Toronto Press. 9780802023797. - Total pages: 771
- Book: Wise, Sydney F.. Sydney F. Wise. Canadian Airmen and the First World War: The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Volume I. 1980. University of Toronto Press. 9780802023797. 17 June 2020.
- Book: Preston. Richard Arthur . Sydney F. Wise. Roland. Alex . Wise. Sydney F. . Men in Arms: A History of Warfare and Its Interrelationships with Western Society. 1991. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 9780030334283. - Total pages: 458
- Book: Wise, Sydney F.. Sydney F. Wise. McKillop. A.B. . God's Peculiar Peoples: Essays on Political Culture in Nineteenth Century Canada. 1993. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. 9780773595712. - Total pages: 287
- Book: Wise. Sydney F. . Sydney F. Wise. Greenhous. Brereton . Harris. Stephen J. . Johnston. William C. . Rawling. William C. . The Crucible of War, 1939-1945, Volume 3. 1994. University of Toronto Press. 9780802005748. - Total pages: 1096
Bibliography
NotesReferences
- Balzer. Timothy John . 1989. The Information Front: The Canadian Army, Public Relations, and War News during the Second World War. PhD. B.R.E., Northwest Baptist Theological College, 1989; B.A., Trinity Western University, 1991; M.R.E., Trinity Western University, 1993; M.A., University of Victoria, 2004 . 1828/1346. June 19, 2020.
- Douglas. W. A. B. . W. A. B. Douglas. 2007. Sydney F. Wise, 1924–2007: A Personal Recollection. Canadian Military History. 16 . 3 . 75–80. June 18, 2020. Canadian Armed Forces. 1492-465X. 842836577.
- Mets. David R. . 1982. History, war and the military professional . Naval War College Review. 35. Naval War College. Newport, Rhode Island. 0028-1484. 75617787. 01779130. June 20, 2020.