pferguson | July 29, 2018
Known Place and Unknown Place Place-names, landscapes…markers that we come to identify with as part of our being, as well as places we have learned about, but may never have stood upon their presence to feel our connection. The personal place memory of Canada’s Great War has passed along to the heavens with the loss […]
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Tags: 8 August 1918, Battle of Amiens, Canada's Last 100 Days, Great War, Landscapes, Place-names
pferguson | July 24, 2018
…of the soldiers’ dreams natsugusa ya tsuwamonodomo ga yume no ato Matsuo Bashō (1644 – 1694) Japanese-Canadian Veterans and the Great War Perhaps they sat upon the side of a hill and watched the changing colours of a field as the grasses tilted with the passing wind. All of nature’s colours, its botanicals, fed by […]
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Tags: Bunshiro Furukawa MM, Buzo (Takezo) Shirasago MM, Gonzarmon Niihara MM, Internment, Japanese-Canadian Veterans, Japanese-Canadian War Memorial, Kiyoji Iizuka MM, Manichi Nakamura MM, Masumi Mitsui MM, Military Medal, Military Service Act 1917, Ottomatsu Yamamoto MM and Bar, Relocation, Sukitaro Miehara (Miyahara), Tokutaro Iwamoto MM, Tominosuke Tanji (Lominosuka Tangi) MM, Tow Inouye MM, Yasuo Takashima MM, Yesaku Kubodera MM, Yoichi Kamakura MM
pferguson | July 8, 2018
Near to an ending? The passing days of centenary have provided several opportunities to pause and think upon celebration, commemoration, reconciliation. Now near to the end, those of us who have chosen to venture into the marshes of conflict must come to terms with 100 years plus one, plus two and so on. Although centenaries […]
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Tags: 8 August 1918 - 11 November 1918, Abancourt (France), Alexander Picton Brereton VC, Amiens (France), Arras (France), Arras-Cambrai Road (France), Arthur George Knight VC, Bar (Second Award), Bellenden Seymour Hutcheson VC MC, Blecourt (France), Boiry-Becquerelle (France), Bourlon Wood (France), Cagnicourt (France), Cambrai (France), Canada's 100 Days, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canal de L’Escaut (France), Charles Smith Rutherford VC MC MM, Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney VC DCM MM, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG), Coulson Norman Mitchell VC MC, Cyrus Wesley Peck VC DSO and Bar, Demuin (France), Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM), Distinguished Service Order (DSO), Dury – Arras Sector (France), Frederick George Coppins VC, Fresnes-Rouvroy Line (France), George Fraser Kerr VC MC and Bar MM, Graham Thomson Lyall VC, Hallu (France), Hangard Wood (France), Harry Garnet Bedford Miner VC, Hatchet Woods (France), Henry (Harry) Garnet Bedford Miner VC, Herman James Good VC, Hugh Cairns VC DCM, Inscriptions, James Edward Tait VC MC, Jean Baptiste Arthur Brillant VC MC, John Bernard Croak VC, John Francis Young VC, John MacGregor VC MC and Bar DCM, Meharicourt (France), Military Cross (MC), Military Medal (MM), Milton Fowler Gregg VC MC and Bar, MM, Monchy (France), Neuville St. Remy (France), Parvillers (France), Parvillers-le-Quesnoy (France), Raphael Louis Zengel VC MM, Rifle Wood (France), Robert Spall VC, Samuel Lewis Honey VC DCM MM, Thomas Fasti Dinesen VC, Valenciennes (France) Marley (France), Victoria Cross, Villers-les-Cagnicourt (France), Vis-en-Artois (France), Wallace Lloyd Algie VC, Walter Leigh Rayfield VC, Warvillers (France), William Henry Metcalf VC MM and Bar, William Hew Clark-Kennedy VC CMG DSO and Bar, William Merrifield VC MM
pferguson | July 1, 2018
All Were Canada It sung to us at from a ridge in France…and as we settled, having been witnesses to the day, this bow caressed the hearth to life. It was warmth, it was home, it was Canada. We stood and we sat, in silence, as each note filled our eyes with connection to this […]
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Tags: 16th Canadian Infantry Battalion (The Canadian Scottish), Canada Day, Eric Kenington, Ethnicity, Sierra Noble, The Conquerors, The Warrior's Lament, Vimy Memorial Re-Dedication (9 April 2007), Vimy Ridge