pferguson | April 26, 2015
A Bonnie Wee Lass in Uniform How old is she we might ask – a wee wisp standing in the photographer’s studio wearing the badge, Glengarry, and uniform of the Gordon Highlanders. Standing with her smile and armed with her officer’s cane her innocence is a sharp contrast to those who wore these uniforms in […]
Category: Snapshots of the Great War |
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Tags: Children, Cuff Rank, Divisional Flash, Gordon Highlanders, Great War, Photo Studio, Photography, Red Cross
pferguson | April 21, 2015
Lieutenant George Samuel Ager, 16th Battalion CEF As time advances from one Great War anniversary to the next, I engage my grey cells in an exercise to find connection with the Canadian Expeditionary Force of April 22 – 24, 1915. Specifically I search for something personal, a familar name to speak to the area northeast […]
Category: Our Thoughts |
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Tags: 16th Battalion CEF, 1915, 22 April 1915, 50th Regimnet (Gordon Highlanders), Beaumont Boggs, Belgium, Canada Mosaic Tile Co. Ltd, Flanders, George Samuel Ager, Herbert Beaumont Boggs, Ieper, Kitcheners' Wood, Life in the Trenches, Lord Strathcona's Horse, Maud Ager, Ploegsteert Churchayard, Second Boer War, Trenches, Victoria BC, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial