pferguson | July 8, 2018

Near to an ending? The passing days of centenary have provided several opportunities to pause and think upon celebration, commemoration, reconciliation. Now near to the end, those of us who have chosen to venture into the marshes of conflict must come to terms with 100 years plus one, plus two and so on. Although centenaries […]

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Tags: 8 August 1918 - 11 November 1918, Abancourt (France), Alexander Picton Brereton VC, Amiens (France), Arras (France), Arras-Cambrai Road (France), Arthur George Knight VC, Bar (Second Award), Bellenden Seymour Hutcheson VC MC, Blecourt (France), Boiry-Becquerelle (France), Bourlon Wood (France), Cagnicourt (France), Cambrai (France), Canada's 100 Days, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canal de L’Escaut (France), Charles Smith Rutherford VC MC MM, Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney VC DCM MM, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG), Coulson Norman Mitchell VC MC, Cyrus Wesley Peck VC DSO and Bar, Demuin (France), Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM), Distinguished Service Order (DSO), Dury – Arras Sector (France), Frederick George Coppins VC, Fresnes-Rouvroy Line (France), George Fraser Kerr VC MC and Bar MM, Graham Thomson Lyall VC, Hallu (France), Hangard Wood (France), Harry Garnet Bedford Miner VC, Hatchet Woods (France), Henry (Harry) Garnet Bedford Miner VC, Herman James Good VC, Hugh Cairns VC DCM, Inscriptions, James Edward Tait VC MC, Jean Baptiste Arthur Brillant VC MC, John Bernard Croak VC, John Francis Young VC, John MacGregor VC MC and Bar DCM, Meharicourt (France), Military Cross (MC), Military Medal (MM), Milton Fowler Gregg VC MC and Bar, MM, Monchy (France), Neuville St. Remy (France), Parvillers (France), Parvillers-le-Quesnoy (France), Raphael Louis Zengel VC MM, Rifle Wood (France), Robert Spall VC, Samuel Lewis Honey VC DCM MM, Thomas Fasti Dinesen VC, Valenciennes (France) Marley (France), Victoria Cross, Villers-les-Cagnicourt (France), Vis-en-Artois (France), Wallace Lloyd Algie VC, Walter Leigh Rayfield VC, Warvillers (France), William Henry Metcalf VC MM and Bar, William Hew Clark-Kennedy VC CMG DSO and Bar, William Merrifield VC MM

pferguson | June 10, 2018

Someday Here We Will Meet Again …a while ago I have stood here many times, brought others to you and wondered who you are…and yet for all the time that has passed – today you have spoken. Who are you Piper John MacLeod? …this day I have walked this place of memory since the late […]

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Tags: 102nd Battalion (North British Columbians), 67th Battalion CEF (Western Scots), Balallan, Bushey Park (England), Empress Hotel, Harry Hardy, Illness, Isle of Lewis, James C. Hanna, John Weightman Warden DSO, King Edward Hotel, King's Canadian Red Cross Hospital, Lewis Chess Pieces, Loyal Lewis Roll of Honour, Mark Knopfler, Passchendaele, Piper John MacLeod, Piper Major Billy Wishart, Piper to the End, pipers, Private C. Haggerty, Private H. Clear, Private H.M. Henderson, Private J. Grant, Private J. Robinson, Private S. Trickett, Resthaven Hospital (Sidney), Ross Bay Cemetery, Stornoway, Victoria BC, Victoria Military Hospital (Esquimalt)

pferguson | May 2, 2018

Fallen Comrades and Common Dangers With the dawn of May 1945 news from the BBC announced Adolph Hitler was dead. Two days later Berlin had fallen. The Canadian Scottish remained vigilant, ready for the continuing fray preparing itself for an assault on Aurich, Germany to commence 4 May, 1945. However, news that day brought word…tremendous […]

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Tags: 5 May 1945, Aurich (Germany), Canadian Scottish Regiment, Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery, Hotel de Wereld (Wageningen), Lüneberg Heath (Germany), May 1945, V-E Day, Victory in Europe, Wagenigen (Netherlands), WWII Ceasefire

pferguson | April 25, 2018

One ANZAC of Gallipoli Today, 25 April, is ANZAC Day, a day when those especially connected to Australia and New Zealand remember those that went before. This before being, the veterans of Gallipoli, a ground this writer visited some while ago and whose heat, landscape, life, and reminders of war remain within. Trooper Rush of […]

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Tags: 25 April, ANZAC, ANZAC Day, Australian Light Horse, Cobber, Friend, Gallipoli, Mate, Poppies, Trooper Harold Rush, Walker's Ridge

pferguson | April 23, 2018

St. George’s Day – Zeebrugge Day A hundred years ago this day…on St. George’s Day (sometimes known as Zeebrugge Day)…23 April 1918, 1,700 British sailors and marines took part in the raid on the port of Zeebrugge, Belgium. Of the 75 vessels used in the attack some are better known than others including HMS Vindictive […]

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Tags: 23 April 1918, Albert Edward McKenzie VC, Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter VC, Arthur Leyland Harrison VC, Distinguished Service ORder, Dover (England), Edward Bamford VC, George Nicholson Bradford VC, HM Motor Launch 282, HM Submarine C3, HMS Vindictive, Meritorious Service Medal, Mersey Ferries, Mole at Zeebrugge, Norman Augustus Finch VC MSM, Percy Thompson Dean VC, Posthumous Award, Raid on Zeebrugge, Richard Douglas Sandford VC, Royal Marine Artillery, Royal Marine Light Infantry, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Royal Navy, Selected by Ballot, SS Daffodil, SS Iris, SS Royal Daffodil, SS Royal Iris, St. George's Day, Victoria Cross, Zeebrugge (Belgium), Zeebrugge Bell, Zeebrugge Day