pferguson | November 11, 2019
Remembrance I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. Augustine Mandino II (Author and WWII USAAF B-24 Bombardier) This one night, seemingly so long ago, I lie awake looking from the window of our Brandhoek stay. The view is the […]
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Tags: Augustine Mandino II, Brandhoek, Brandhoek Military Cemetery, Brandhoek New Military Cemetery, Brandhoek New Military Cemetery No. 3, Casualty Clearing Station, Dark, Field Ambulance, Kasteelgracht, Light, Rosary, Royal Field Artillery, Sarah Hatton, Shoeing Smith W. Allen, Stars
pferguson | November 10, 2019
One Day Soon… There is another place to visit, following in the footsteps of Professor John Macnaughton’s walk to his son’s grave at Dickebusch New Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Found within the pages of the Canada Illustrated Weekly, a letter of thanks to St. Barnabas Hostels, a brief note of gratitude…. Will you kindly allow […]
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Tags: 24th Canadian Infantry Battalion, Canadian Virtual War Memorial, Dickebusch New Military Cemetery, Empire Club of Canada, Gommecourt British Cemetery, Ian Robert Reekie Macnaughton, John Macnaughton, Kate Palmer, Kate Palmer's Walk, Menin Gate, Remembrance, Richard Lennard Hoare, Roy Palmer, St. Barnabas Hostels, Villers Station Cemetery, Woods Military Cemetery, Ypres Salient
pferguson | November 9, 2019
The Soldier While taking part in operations with his company, of the 14th Canadian Infantry Battalion, in the trenches south of Zillebeke, Montreal-born Private James Duncan Montgomery MacGillivray, age 41, was killed at 7:25 PM on 25 April 1916. Next-of-Kin As I search through James MacGillivray’s service record I learn from his attestation papers that […]
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Tags: 14th Canadian Infantry Battalion, British War Medal, Chester Farm Military Cemetery, Culloden, James Duncan Montgomery MacGillivray, Memorial Plaque, Victory Medal, William MacGillivray, Zillebeke
pferguson | November 8, 2019
Unsure of our bearings we rode… Observing the horizon I watch familiar church towers on the horizon drift back and forth in perspective. Distant…closer…always to our right or soon to be on our right. The roads meander here amongst the fields of battle and bounty. At times and without warning (no orange pylons here) the […]
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Tags: 29th Welsh Division, 38th Welsh Division We, Langemarck, Memorials, Monmouthshire Regiment, Pilckem Ridge, Red Dragon, Royal Welch Fusiliers, South Wales Borderers, Welch Regiment, Welsh Guards, Welsh Park, Ypres Salient
pferguson | November 7, 2019
Bornes du Front, Demarcatiepalen, Demarcation Stone On occasion, while wandering the hurt landscapes of France and Flanders the visitor will happen upon one of French sculptor, Paul Moreau-Vautheir’s demarcation stones introduced to this fractured landscape in 1921. Dotted intermittently along significant sites of the Western Front in France and Belgium, the stones are known to […]
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Tags: Battle of Verdun, Demarcation Stone, General Phillipe Pétain, Lankhof Farm, Paul Moreau-Vautheir, Touring Club de Belgique, Touring Club of France, Ypres League