pferguson | March 25, 2013
Finding Balance Hall of Valour, Canberra, Australia “In the hall the small crosses that mean so much lie under the stories of those who earned them.” Ben Lisson, ABC News Not silver, not gold. No fine enamels, nor precious gems, a simple cross of bronze suspended from a crimson ribbon. On the cross pattee a […]
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Tags: Australian Victoria Cross Recipients, Australian War Memorial, Balance, For Valour, Hall of Valour, Monumental, Museum Exhibitions, Personal, Symbolic, Victoria Cross
pferguson | March 9, 2013
The CEF, the Lewis Gun and the Victoria Cross Designed in the United States the air cooled Lewis Gun was widely adopted by British and Commonwealth forces in 1915. However, Belgian forces were equipped with the Lewis gun in 1913 and when German forces first encountered this light machine gun in 1914 they nicknamed the weapon, […]
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Tags: 20th Battalion CEF, 22nd Battalion CEF, 46th Battalion CEF, 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles, Belgian Rattlesnakes, C.E.F., Canadian National War Memorial, Charles Smith Rutherford VC MC MM, Frederick Hobson VC, Hill 70, Hugh Cairns VC DCM, Joseph Kaeble VC MM, Lens, Lewis Guns, Monchy-le-Preux, Neuville-Vitasse, Parvillers, PPCLI, Robert Spall VC, Valenciennes
