pferguson | July 1, 2019
La Boiselle this day so many years ago… This Day – 1 July 2019 When I can…I walk this ground, towards La Boiselle… We are in this place, peaceful now, but where the hearts of men once beat with adrenaline as they advanced. Their rhythms interrupted by the stuttering power of the seemingly endless machine […]
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Tags: 1 July 1916, 102nd (Tyneside Scottish) Brigade, 20th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (1st Tyneside Scottish), 21st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (2nd Tyneside Scottish), 22nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (3rd Tyneside Scottish), 23rd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (4th Tyneside Scottish), First Day of the Somme, La Boiselle, Mash Valley, Sausage Valley, Tyneside Pipers
pferguson | January 29, 2019
“Jock” Copland – Always Ready A return to the stacks at the University of Victoria Library provided a hidden gem amongst familiar pages that, this day, I turn a little slower finding clues within the pictorial offerings. This one image here – records the familiar collar badges of a Canadian regiment – The Essex Scottish […]
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Tags: "Jock" Copland Memorial, 241st Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish Borderers), 3 August 1940, Aldershot (England), Battle of Britain, Essex Scottish, Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division), Pipe Major John "Jock" Copland, Second Canadian Infantry Division, Semper Paratus (Always Ready), The War Illustrated, Windsor (Ontario)
pferguson | September 3, 2018
Friends are good on the day of battle Located near to Y Ravine, within the present day Newfoundland Park, the 51st Division Memorial commemorates their success during the Battle of the Ancre 13 November 1916. The memorial project was aided by the good work of Lieutenant Colonel Nangle, the former Roman Catholic padre of the […]
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Tags: 11 November 1918, 13 November 1916, 21 March 1918, 28 September 1924, 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 51st (Highland) Division Memorial, 51st Highland Division, Armistice, Battle of the Ancre, Beaumont-Hamel, Blitz, Bob Rowan, Charles Ross Paulin, Ferdinand Jean Marie Foch, Friends are good on the day of battle, Gaelic, George Henry Paulin, Glasgow Highlanders (1/9 Highland Light Infantry), LA A' BHLAIR S MATH NA CAIRDEAN, March Offensive, Memorialization, Memorials, Newfoundland Park, P. Sinclair, pipers, Somme, Thomas Matthew Mary Nangle, Treaty of Versailles, Y Ravine
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 | February 17, 2018
Will Ye Go Lassie Go Though perhaps this tune has wandered to my ears sometime in my past, it was only recently when the tune was featured in Their Finest that the melody, sung by actor Bill Nighy, has become anchored to my person. That anchor comes, not only in the form of the lyric […]
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Tags: 1940, 51st Highland Division, Bill Nighy, Dunkirk, Family, Film History, Francis McPeake, Home, St. Valery, The Regiment, Their Finest, Wild Mountain Thyme, Will Ye Go Lassie Go
