pferguson | June 29, 2022
The Darkest of Days The Battle of the Somme lasted for 141 days ending 18 November 1916. During its time the British Army and associated units of the British Commonwealth, including Canada, suffered some 650,000 casualties…200,000 lost their lives. It is, however, the first day…1 July 1916 that speaks with the loudest of voices…54,740 British […]
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Tags: 1 July 1916, Battle of the Somme, Beaumont-Hamel (Newfoundland) Memorial, Cowichan (B.C.), First Day of the Somme, Maurice Leslie Adamson, Newfoundland Regiment, Noel Beaumont Souper, Robert Alexander Rankine Campbell, Royal Berkshire Regiment, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Royal Scots Fusiliers, St. Andrew's Anglican Church, Thiepval Memorial, Vancouver (B.C.), Vancouver Island, Victoria (B.C.), West Yorkshire Regiment, William Edward Le Shana, William Francis Henry Pelly
pferguson | March 29, 2022
Presence and Present Ypres (Ieper) one of my favorite places to visit, not only as the small city is paramount to many of my immediate interests of the Great War, but now having visited often I simply like the town. The square with its shops for browsing, grazing and watering, the canal and the ramparts, […]
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Tags: Annie Eliza Bardolph Buchanan, Art, Arthur Alleyne Kingsley Conan Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, Artists, Australian War Memorial, Cornfields, Ieper, James Buchanan (1st Baron Woolavington), John Kipling, Menin Gate at Midnight, Remembrance, Rudyard Kipling, Scotch Whiskey, Spiritualism, Whiskey, Will Langstaff, Ypres
pferguson | February 27, 2022
1915 and the 16th Canadian Infantry Battalion Distinguished Service Order Major Gilbert Godson-Godson DSO London Gazette: 22 June 1915 Awarded on the occasion of His Majesty’s Birthday. No citation. Occupation: City of Vancouver. Department Head. Prior service: Second Boer War (Corps of Guides and South African Constabulary. Awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal and Mentioned in […]
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Tags: 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish), 1915, Alfred William Minchin, Bernard Charles Lunn, Cecil Mack Merritt, Frank Morison, Gerald Coussmaker Heath, Gilbert Godson-Godson, Honours and Awards, John Dougall, John William Bizley, La Quinque Rue Orchard, Robert Gilmour Edwards Leckie, St. Julien (Belgium), Victor Alexander MacLean
pferguson | January 29, 2022
Malta’s Siege Bell Memorial With commanding views of the Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta’s Siege Bell Memorial is located at the lower part of St. Christopher Bastion. The Siege of Malta occurred between June 1940 to November 1942 became one of the most heavily bombed areas of the Second World War. The island of Malta was […]
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Tags: George Cross, Grand Harbour, Malta, Michael Sandle, Psalm 140, Siege Bell Memorial, Siege of Malta, Soldier at Rest, Valletta (Malta)
pferguson | November 11, 2021
Private George Edwin Ellison L/12643 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers Son of James W. and Mary Ellison, George Ellison was born in York and raised in Leeds where today a memorial to him has been placed at Leeds Railway Station. The commemorative plaque, normally blue in colour, is olive green representing the British soldier uniform of […]
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Tags: 11 November 1918, 309 Fatalities, 46th Canadian Infantry Battalion, 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, 994, Armistice, Chatham Naval Memorial, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Frederick Thomas Ellison, George Edwin Ellison, George Lawrence Prince, H.M. Trawler Towhee, John Parr, King George V, Known unto God, Middlesex Regiment, Silent Witnesses, St. Symphorien Military Cemetery, The King's Pilgrimage
