pferguson | June 29, 2022
The Darkest of Days The Battle of the Somme lasted for 141 days ending 18 November 1916. During its time the British Army and associated units of the British Commonwealth, including Canada, suffered some 650,000 casualties…200,000 lost their lives. It is, however, the first day…1 July 1916 that speaks with the loudest of voices…54,740 British […]
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Tags: 1 July 1916, Battle of the Somme, Beaumont-Hamel (Newfoundland) Memorial, Cowichan (B.C.), First Day of the Somme, Maurice Leslie Adamson, Newfoundland Regiment, Noel Beaumont Souper, Robert Alexander Rankine Campbell, Royal Berkshire Regiment, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Royal Scots Fusiliers, St. Andrew's Anglican Church, Thiepval Memorial, Vancouver (B.C.), Vancouver Island, Victoria (B.C.), West Yorkshire Regiment, William Edward Le Shana, William Francis Henry Pelly
pferguson | July 1, 2019
La Boiselle this day so many years ago… This Day – 1 July 2019 When I can…I walk this ground, towards La Boiselle… We are in this place, peaceful now, but where the hearts of men once beat with adrenaline as they advanced. Their rhythms interrupted by the stuttering power of the seemingly endless machine […]
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Tags: 1 July 1916, 102nd (Tyneside Scottish) Brigade, 20th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (1st Tyneside Scottish), 21st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (2nd Tyneside Scottish), 22nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (3rd Tyneside Scottish), 23rd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (4th Tyneside Scottish), First Day of the Somme, La Boiselle, Mash Valley, Sausage Valley, Tyneside Pipers
pferguson | July 1, 2017
July 1 – Remembrance and Celebration Its Canada’s birthday a time to reflect on the past 150 years of counting though we well recognize that there was much time before the counting. We celebrate our achievements, cast our minds upon our foibles, provide recognition, and generally say good things about ourselves. Within the glow of […]
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Tags: 1 July 1916, 150th Anniversary of Canada, Beaumont-Hamel, Canadian Sunset, Field Marshall Haig, France, National War Memorial (Newfoundland), Newfoundland Regiment, Reid Jamieson, Somme
pferguson | July 3, 2016
IN THE GREAT ADVANCE Canadian Officer’s Graphic Letter. The following is a letter from a young Canadian serving with an English regiment – an officer in the first line on the first day of the big offensive: – July 1. I am writing this in a dug-out about 200 yards from German lines. […]
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Tags: 1 July 1916, Battleplanes, Canadian Officer in an English Regiment, First Day of the Somme, German Protest 1898, Hague Convention 1899, Hawthorn Ridge, Lyddite Shells, Machine Guns, Propaganda
pferguson | May 6, 2012
Lochnagar and Hawthorn Ridge Standing at its edge the mine crater of Lochnagar dwarfs all those who stand beside it staring down into its depth at the circle of poppy crosses at its base. The crater was created July 1, 1916 when the explosive packed mine was detonated by the Royal Engineers at 7:28 AM […]
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Tags: 1 July 1916, Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers’ War 1914-1918, Beneath Hill 60, Ernest Brooks, Geoffrey Malins, Hawthorn Ridge Crater, Lochnagar Crater, Mining Operations, Richard Dunning, Royal Engineers, Somme, Tunnelling Operations
