pferguson | November 15, 2016
1857 – 1859 In all 182 soldiers were awarded the Victoria Cross for their actions during the Indian Mutiny. Of these recipients 31 were born in Scotland. Several other Victoria Crosses were awarded to soldiers serving with Scottish regiments though born elsewhere. The following records the Scottish-born recipients. Please note the numerous given spellings for […]
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Tags: 1857, 1857-1859, 1858, 1859, Abbey Church (Culross Fife), Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Museum, Charge of the 93rd Highlanders, Indian Mutiny, National Army Museum, Scottish-born, Victoria Cross, William Skeoch Cumming
pferguson | November 11, 2016
Papaver rhoeas On the advance to Reningelst I see them. A small stand, crimson with black centers grow near to another botanical family – corn stalks. They are the only Papaver rhoeas (Corn Poppy) I have seen on this journey of discovery – their colour stands out amidst all this new growth from nature’s palette. Gentle […]
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Tags: Corn Poppy, Flanders Fields, Flanders Poppy, Land of Crimson, Papaver rhoeas, Remembrance
pferguson | November 10, 2016
Today I Stand With folded arms, I bow my head. Eyes open, eyes shut thinking back upon times when these friends behind spoke of memories of home. Together we laughed and sang, marched, ran and crawled. From one corner of a field to the next, and now many remain at the foot of a cross and I […]
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Tags: Ieper, In Flanders Fields Museum, Remembrance, Ypres
pferguson | November 9, 2016
But in Some Brighter Clime He was a soldier, unknown to me, but through my wanderings across Flanders I stumble upon his place. He is there with his fellow soldiers… who knew not what the day would bring. But this day, this time, this place, I stop a while and think upon his life and […]
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Tags: "Life" (Poem), 106th Field Ambulance, 1917, 30 November 1917, Age 31, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Minty Farm Cemetery, Remembrance, Royal Army Medical Corps, Sergeant John Gibbs, War Graves
pferguson | November 4, 2016
Mountains and Places – Any Day and Any Table Many of us enjoy watching movies time and time again. Each year I promise myself to find a few others and as I sit with pencil and paper in hand, neatly levered into my chair – my place, I jot down a few titles or more. […]
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Tags: Alison Krause, Ashokan Farewell, Cold Mountain, Family, Film History, Language, Nations, Nicole Kidman, Place, Remembrance, The Civil War, The Great War, The Scarlet Tide, War