pferguson | April 27, 2017
After Vimy Ernst Jünger was a German military officer whose memoir, Storm of Steel is considered a classic of Great War literature. Commissioned from the ranks, Jünger continued to serve with his regiment, the 73rd Hanoverian Regiment, and was wounded on 14 occasions. His description of his time in the French village of Fresnoy, prior […]
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Tags: 73rd Hanoverian Regiment, Artillery, Ernst Jünger, Fresnoy, Memoir, Pour le Mérite, Projectiles, Storm of Steel, Vimy
pferguson | April 21, 2017
The Australian Coronation Contingent Eighty years ago an Australian contingent of 100 soldiers, 25 sailors and 25 airmen traveled to the United Kingdom for the Coronation of King George VI, 12 May 1937. One of the contingent’s tasks was to return the remains of British soldier, Arthur Evans VC who died in Sydney Australia 1 […]
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Tags: 25 April 1937, ANZAC Day (25 April), Arthur Evans (AKA Walter Simpson), Arthur Percival Sullivan VC, Arthur Percival Sullivan VC Plaque, Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), Australian Coronation Contingent, Canon P.E. James, Coronation, Distinguished Conduct Medal, General Sir Ian Hamilton, General Sir William Birdwood, King George VI, London (England), Remembrance, St. Paul's ANZAC Day Commemorative Service, St. Paul's Cathedral, The Cenotaph (Whitehall), Victoria Cross, Wellington Barracks
pferguson | April 15, 2017
Dawn of a New Day With each new day there is a chorus of birds chirping and flitting about from one branch to another announcing the dawn. Content to rejoice as the sun shines upon their places, bringing them warmth, my slightly weary eyes open one at a time. It is dawn, a new beginning. […]
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Tags: Birdsong, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Easter, Easter Dawn, John McCrae, Michael Morpurgo, The Wailin' Jennys, War Graves
pferguson | April 11, 2017
It is as if Vimy is the start of what I do Vimy is connected to family. It’s personal. This I learned many years ago from my grandmother who told me stories about her father…..which were…..upon reflection…..stories her mother had told. This was the man Grannie knew…..memories…..passed from one generation to another. Grannie was two […]
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Tags: 31st Canadian Infantry Battalion, Family, Generations, Home, My Vimy, Ole Berget, Vimy Memorial, Vimy Rededication 2007, Vimy Ridge
pferguson | April 11, 2017
Ethelbert “Curley” Christian Enlisting in 1915 with the 108th Battalion CEF, Curley Christian served on the Western Front with the 78th Battalion CEF, a unit of the Fourth Canadian Division. At the Battle of Vimy Ridge “Curley” Christian was crushed and trapped for two days, his wounds becoming gangrenous requiring the amputation of his forearms […]
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Tags: 1919 Victory Loan, 1936 Vimy Pilgrimage, 78th Canadian Infantry Battalion (Winnipeg Grenadiers), Amputations, Amputee, Attendance Allowance, Bethnal Green Military Hospital, Christie Street Veterans Hospital, Cleopatra Christian, Cleopatra McPherson, Douglas Christian, Ethelbert "Curley" Christian, Euclid Hall, Fourth Canadian Division, King Edward VIII, Prince of Wales, Prosthetic Limb, Prosthetics, The Amputation Club of British Columbia, The War Amputations of Canada, Veterans Advocate, Vimy Ridge, War Amps of Canada