pferguson | January 10, 2020
Farewell to the King In September 2016 a friend I had not seen since 1979 or so re-appeared. Peter managed to track me down (after all these years) through the Pipes of War website. Back in the day -…1978 – 1979…the days of youthful university Peter and I spent considerable time listening to and analyzing […]
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Tags: Drum Solo, Drumstick, Lyricist, Lyrics, Memories, Neil Peart, Rush
pferguson | January 10, 2020
16th Battalion C.E.F. Prisoners of War (Part 3) Every two years (in January) I have returned to my 16th Canadian Infantry Battalion Prisoner of War research project. To my surprise the battalion does not appear to have had any service personnel captured during 1917. Of particular interest in this the third and final installment are […]
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Tags: 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish), Arras, Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Charles Margetts, Cuvillers, David Clelland MC, Escape, Haynecourt, James Rodolphus Jenkins (Escaper), John Clarence Scott, Kingsley Gower Poole, Military Cross, Military Service Act 1917, Mons Communal Cemetery, Niederzwehren War Cemetery, Norman Hough, Parvillers, Parvillers-Schwetz Wood, Prisoners of War, Quiévrain Communal Cemetery, Royden Percival Patton, Royden Percival Patton (Escaper), Sidney James Smith, Tells of Stirring Incidents at Front, Valenciennes (St. Roch) Communal Cemetery
pferguson | January 4, 2020
Reoccurring Imagery in Film Near the start of this New Year I turn again to films whose peninsular lands I have wandered. From Peter Weir’s Gallipoli, that galvanized my interest in film-making, to Russell Crowe’s The Water Diviner whose pilgrim father is a character to whom I relate. In Weir’s Gallipoli it is the runner, within Mark […]
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Tags: Archy Hamilton, Archy Hamilton aka Lascelles, Arthur Connor, Film History, Gallipoli, Joshua Connor, Locomotive, Mark Lee, Peter Weir, Pilgrim, Reoccurring Themes, Russell Crowe, Ryan Corr, Storytelling, The Water Diviner, Whirling Dervish, Windmill