pferguson | March 29, 2024
Courage – Honor – Sacrifice After several days visit to Waikiki to relax and seek an even keel…I have walked…from Natatorium to Fort DeRussy…wandered Honolulu in search of familiar old buildings. Found new and old to photograph. Been amused amongst the waves, drifted with the current, seen new living species, found cognac in the waters […]
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Tags: 7 December 1941, Arizona Memorial, Courage, Everett Hyland, Greatest Generation, Honor, Pearl Harbor, Sacrifice, USS Arizona, USS Missouri, USS Pennsylvania, War Memorials
pferguson | February 25, 2024
During Air Raids Mary Meta Hodge was awarded the Military Medal for Bravery in the Field. A resident of Winnipeg, Manitoba the above portrait appeared in the Canada Illustrated Weekly, 21 December 1918, p. 397. Nursing Sister Hodge was one of nine Canadian women awarded the Military Medal during the Great War. Eight of the women […]
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Tags: Air Raid, Associate of the Royal Red Cross, Beatrice McNair, Canadian Army Medical Corps, Doullens (France), Edith Campbell, Eleanor Jean Thompson, Etaples (France), Helen Elizabeth Hansen, Honours and Awards, Janet Mary Williamson, Lenora Herrington, Lottie Urquhart, Marie Dow Lutwick, Mary Meta Hodge, Military Medal, No 2 Canadian Stationary Hospital, No. 2 Canadian General Hospital, No. 3 Canadian General Hospital, No. 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital, No. 58 Casualty Clearing Station, No. 8 Canadian General Hospital, Nursing Sisters, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Reserve), Royal Red Cross
pferguson | December 20, 2023
Queen Reviews Men of Valour, 1956. British Pathé For Valour For the Victoria Cross centenary Queen Elizabeth II reviewed an assembly of 300 men who held the nation’s and Commonwealth’s highest honour – the Victoria Cross. The review, conducted at Hyde Park, London 26 June 1956 respected the first presentations of the awards by Queen […]
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Tags: Cecil Merritt, Charles Train, Cyrus Peck, Edward Bellew, Ernest Smith, Filip Konowal, George Mullin, George Pearkes, John Kerr, John Mahoney, Marlborough House, Robert Hanna, Rowland Bourke, Victoria Cross, Victoria Cross Exhibition, Victoria Cross Review, William Metcalf
pferguson | November 10, 2023
Le Francport: 5:45 a.m. The signature at this place…at this time…near to Compiènge went into effect at 11:00 a.m. marking an armistice between warring nations. The document signed by French Marshal Ferdinand Foch was only the beginning as this day, 11 November 1918, though a peace was not a formal surrender with Germany. Prior to […]
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Tags: 11 November 1918, Armistice, Armistice of Mudros, Armistice of Salonika, Armistice of Villa Giusti (or the Padua Armistice), Austria-Hungary, Buglaria, Ferdinand Foch, German East Africa, Le Francport (France), Ottoman Empire, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Peace, Treaty of Versailles (28 June 1919)
pferguson | October 29, 2023
Returned Soldier Writes of Ghosts Too often the loser in that struggle was the ex-soldier, reduced to plead[ing] hopelessly with soul-less powers who renege their promises made, who grind these broken veterans to starvation, shame and suicide. (Will R. Bird M.M. (Returned Soldier) in Death So Noble, J. Vance, p. 119) William Richard Bird was a […]
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Tags: 25th Canadian Infantry Battalion, 42nd Canadian Infantry Battalion, 85th Canadian Infantry Battalion, And We Go On, Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, Ethel Bird, Ghosts Have Warm Hands, Hubert Craige Bird, Lewis Bransby Bird, Military Medal, Stanley Stephen Bird, Stephen Carman Bird, Thirteen Years After, William Richard Bird, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial
