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
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)
