pferguson | June 5, 2016
Sergeant William Garner Croix de Guerre avec Etoile De Bronze (France) On 6 June 1944 (D day) at COURSEULLES-sur-MER, France, K57764 Sergeant William GARNER, medical Sergeant 1st Battalion Canadian Scottish Regiment, landed with his unit on the beach amid heavy mortar and machine gun fire. Completely disregarding his own safety he began immediately to treat […]
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Tags: 6 June 1944, Beach, Canadian Scottish Regiment, D-Day, Fatalities, French Croix de Guerre, L.C.A., Landing Craft Assault, Regimental Aid Post, Second World War, Sergeant William Garner, Stretcher Bearers, Wounded
pferguson | April 30, 2016
Unpretentious Little Workshop: Hancocks the Manufacturer “After several submissions and amendments, designs submitted by Lord Panmure were approved and in March 1856 the war office instructed Hancocks to produce 106 Victoria Cross medals. A duty that the firm proudly upholds to the present day.” (Hancocks website) Thanks to British Pathé(via Youtube) for this small feature, […]
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Tags: 1945, Alec Forbes, Archival Film, British Pathe, Burlington Arcade, Hancocks, London (England), Lord Panmure, Victoria Cross
pferguson | March 5, 2015
Actors and the Great War Seemingly one just has to ferret about the internet and much will be revealed simply by coming up with the right combination of search terms. Recently I was reviewing none other than Basil Rathbone’s Great War service, with the Liverpool Scottish, when I learned of three actors who served during […]
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Tags: 14th London Regiment, 1914, 1915, 1917, A Double Life, Academy Awards, Actors, Amputee, Arras, Battle of Messines, Bedford Regiment, Blinded, Comines–Ypres Canal, David Lean, David Niven, Film, Film History, Gas Attack, Golden Globe, Greta Garbo, Herbert “Bart” Brough Falcon Marshall, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Humphrey Bogart, Insignia, John Gielgud, Katherine Hepburn, Lawrence of Arabia, Lawrence Olivier, London Scottish, London Scottish War Memorial, Marlene Dietrich, Phantom Pain, Prosthetic Limb, Race to the Sea, Rampant Lion, River Douve, Ronald Charles Colman, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Scottish Thistle, Silver War Badge, Sniper, Strike Sure, Theatre, Tony Awards, West Middlesex Dramatic Society, William Claude Rains, Wytschaete
pferguson | February 17, 2015
The Royal Navy’s Great War Battle Commemorations Recent research into the Royal Navy fleet that Admiral Sir Jacky Fisher, First Sea Lord of the Board of the Admiralty, built has led to some interesting discoveries. Fisher was instrumental, or rather was the powerhouse, in re-developing the British Navy. In October 1905 the Dreadnought program commenced […]
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Tags: Clyde, Clydebank, Cohen, Destroyers, Edinburgh, England, Fairfield Govan, Germany, Granton, Great War, Hawthorn Leslie, HMS Marne, HMS Mons, HMS Somme, HMS Verdun, Jacky Fisher, John Brown and Company, Jutland, Pembroke Dock, Royal Navy, Scotland, Scrapped, Ship's Bell, Ship's Crest, Slough Trading Company, Tyneside, Unknown Warrior, Wales, Ward, Westminster Abbey
pferguson | August 15, 2014
Military Tailor to All Canadian Regiments Etc., Etc. It was time (recently) to start drifting through the many pages of research I tracked down by wandering the stacks of the University of Victoria. It’s good to wander the library’s aisles, stopping to take a look at old volumes just to see what they might contain. […]
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Tags: 16th Battalion C.E.F., 1916, 61 Conduit Street, Andrew Carmichael, Canada Magazine, Canadian Scottish, Carmichael Kilts, Great War, Great War Clothing, Inspiration from History, James McIvor, Kilt Maker, London (England), Military Cross, Military Medal, Military Tailor, Passion for History, University of Victoria
