Bibliographic record
Abstract
T he events described in this book took place many years ago, during the Italian Campaign of World War ii in 1943-45.Most of these events, and the only ones on which I am qualified to comment, concern the author's service as chaplain with an infantry battalion in the 1st Canadian Infantry Division.In February 1944, Laurence Wilmot was posted to the West Nova Scotia Regiment, which was then holding the line some two miles north of the seaport town of Ortona, Italy.Ortona had recently fallen to the Canadians after an epic and costly battle with the German 1st Parachute Division.The weather there was dismal-cold and wet, with snow on the ground.For troops occupying slit trenches all night, it could hardly have been worse.In addition, the junior officers and men in the rifle companies were constantly out on tough fighting patrols to probe the enemy lines, and casualties in the regiment had been heavy.The sound of artillery fire, both enemy and our own, was almost continuous.The crump of mortars and the chatter of machine guns added to the crescendo of noise.It was under these conditions that Laurence Wilmot began his service as chaplain with the West Nova Scotia Regiment.I happened to be at Rear Battalion Headquarters, situated in a damaged building called Casa Berardi in the hamlet of Berardi, when Laurie arrived.At the time, a few of us were saying farewell to Maj.Al Rogers, who was leaving the battalion for a period of rest after many months in the field as a company commander.I took this opportunity to introduce Laurie to Al and to the others gathered for the occasion.We were as pleased to welcome our new padre as we were sorry to see Al go.Few that evening could have imagined how fortunate we were in having Laurie Wilmot join us.His warmth, common sense, and strong Christian faith soon made him welcome with the officers and the men alike.Later on, his actions in helping to care for the wounded and evacuate them to safety, often under fire, are described in modest detail in this book.For much of Laurie's service with the West Novas, our commanding officer was Ronald Waterman.Ronnie was born in England and had joined the Canadian Army in peacetime as a private soldier.In December of 1943, in the rank of lieutenant colonel, he had taken command of the West Nova
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.450 | 0.291 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".