The Cape Breton Highlanders at "Snow Haven" rest camp at Fornelli, Italy, May 1944.

Cape Breton Highlanders at rest camp Italy 1943

The Cape Breton Highlanders are piped ashore from the SS Monterey at Naples, Italy, October, 1943.  Note the pipers stage left.

Cape Breton Highlanders disembark, Italy 1943

Pierre Berton circa 1943.  Berton was the author of some thirty books.  One of them, an autobiography called "Starting Out 1920-1947" describes details of his stay at Camp Vernon, in Vernon, British Columbia.  Berton was never far from a typewriter, his already weighty army kit was further encumbered by an eight pound portable typewriter.