pferguson | November 3, 2022
Regina Trench, France: Action of 8 October 1916 GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty when, prior to attack, he obtained permission from his Commanding Officer to play his company ‘over the top.’ As the company approached the objective, it was held up by very strong wire […]
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Tags: 16th Canadian Infantry Battalion (The Canadian Scottish), 8 October 1916, 9 October 1916, Adanac Military Cemetery, Art, James Cleland Richardson VC, John Weaver, Piper Richardson Statue, Posthumous Victoria Cross, Regina Trench
pferguson | October 28, 2022
George Findlater VC The National Army Museum (NAM) retains in its holdings some items related to Piper George Findlater who became a recipient of the Victoria Cross for his actions 20 October 1897 at the Battle of the Dargai Heights. Included in the NAM’s collection is a silver-plated statuette, Findlater’s smashed bagpipe chanter from Dargai, […]
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Tags: 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders, Dargai Heights, Edward Matthew Hale, Elkington & Company, Khyber Pass, National Army Museum, Piper George Findlater VC, Tirah Field Force, Victoria Cross
pferguson | September 25, 2020
1860 – 1900 (excluding the Second Boer War 1899-1902) Following the Indian Mutiny or Sepoy Mutiny, British soldiers and sailors found themselves deeply involved in colonial battles across the British Empire. The “pink” of the globe was well known to students and diplomats of Empire, so too the gun and cannon of powerful, organized troops […]
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Tags: Afghanistan, Ashanti, Bhutan (Bootan), British Empire, Burma, Charles James William Grant VC, Dargai Heights, Donald Macintyre VC, George Frederick Findlater VC, George Sellar VC, Herbert Stephen Henderson VC, India, James Dundas VC, John Cook VC, John Leishman McDougall VC, John MacKenzie VC DCM, Kabul, Lushai, Matabeleland, Mutiny, Peiwar Kotal, Piper George Findlater VC, Queen Victoria's Little Wars, Rebellion, Samuel McGaw VC, Sir John Carstairs McNeill VC GCVO KCB KCMG, Taku Forts, Waikato, William Henry Dick-Cunyngham VC, William John Vousden VC CB
pferguson | August 18, 2020
Operation Jubilee When the 16th Battalion CEF formed at Valcartier in 1914 four drafts from Canadian Highland Regiments provided soldiers for this new battalion of this new Canadian army. They included men from the 50th Regiment (Gordon Highlanders) based in Victoria, B.C., the 72nd Regiment (Seaforth Highlanders of Canada) based in Vancouver, B.C., the 79th […]
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Tags: 19 August 1942, Art, Beach in Dieppe, Cause and Effect, Charles Gilchrist Gunn, Claude Monet, Dieppe, Honours and Awards, Operation Jubilee, pipers, Pourville, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada, Shannon Bettles-Reimer
pferguson | November 8, 2019
Unsure of our bearings we rode… Observing the horizon I watch familiar church towers on the horizon drift back and forth in perspective. Distant…closer…always to our right or soon to be on our right. The roads meander here amongst the fields of battle and bounty. At times and without warning (no orange pylons here) the […]
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Tags: 29th Welsh Division, 38th Welsh Division We, Langemarck, Memorials, Monmouthshire Regiment, Pilckem Ridge, Red Dragon, Royal Welch Fusiliers, South Wales Borderers, Welch Regiment, Welsh Guards, Welsh Park, Ypres Salient