pferguson | September 23, 2018
…each day It’s about loss…a familiar theme to the tracks of war…along the fields, the woods, the towns. Too many memorials…nearly one per town…too many headstones…row on row… too many lives…so many /so few memories. Rust, blood and petals. Repeatedly I remind myself that my visits to this peace were once the chaos of another’s […]
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Tags: France and Flanders, Remembrance, St. George's Memorial Church
pferguson | September 3, 2018
Friends are good on the day of battle Located near to Y Ravine, within the present day Newfoundland Park, the 51st Division Memorial commemorates their success during the Battle of the Ancre 13 November 1916. The memorial project was aided by the good work of Lieutenant Colonel Nangle, the former Roman Catholic padre of the […]
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