pferguson | July 16, 2017
Canadian Scottish Pipers at Rest Piper Major James Groat and Piper James Low Our cab takes us to Brookside Cemetery in Winnipeg. It’s a fine day with the sun above and the wind across the ground making this particular place a welcome start to our blitz of military history sites in Winnipeg. For a very […]
Category: Pipers of War |
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Tags: 16th Battalion CEF, 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish), 50th Gordon Highlanders, 72nd Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, 79th Cameron Highlanders of Canada, 91st Canadian Highlanders, Brookside Cemetery, Pipe Major James Groat DCM MM and Bar, Piper James Moir Low, Poppies, The Lament, Thistles, Tim Barnett, Valcartier, Winnipeg
pferguson | April 9, 2017
The Torch Be Yours to Hold it High Pilgrimages to the Western Front especially by family members in search of their fallen sons and daughters was discouraged during the Great War. However, with the end of the war in November 1918, many families, friends and fellow veterans returned to these places of conflict to seek […]
Category: Remember Them Well |
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Tags: 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish), 1936 Vimy Pilgrimage, 1936 Vimy Pilgrimage MEdal, Canadian Legion, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Imperial War Graves Commission, Pilgrimage, Pilgrims, Remembrance, The Epic of Vimy, Vimy Centenary 2017, Vimy Pilgrims, Vimy Restoration 2007, War Graves Registration Unit
pferguson | October 10, 2016
IN MEMORY OF OFFICERS NCO’S MEN OF THE 16TH. CANADIAN SCOTTISH WHO FELL IN ACTION ON THE SOMME Mouquet Farm September 4-7, 1916 Kenora Trench September 25-27, 1916 Regina Trench October 8-9, 1916 One of two known preserved wood battlefield markers of the 16th Battalion C.E.F. (Canadian Scottish). The Somme marker is held in the […]
Category: Snapshots of the Great War |
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Tags: 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish), 25-27 September 1916, 4-7 September 1916, 8-9 October 1916, Ancre Heights, Battle of the Somme Bagpipes (Tune), Bay Street Armouries, British Columbia, Canadian Scottish Regimental Museum, Canadian War Museum, Casualties, Kenora Trench, Mouquet Farm, Pioneer Square, Pozières, Regina Trench, Remembrance, Somme, Thiepval Ridge, Victoria
pferguson | October 8, 2016
A Time to Reflect and be Reflective October 8, 2016 It is raining today, water hurtling down from a darkened sky. It is a time to reflect and be reflective, a time for a centennial eulogy that speaks to all of us this day…but what more can be said about this piper James that has […]
Category: Our Thoughts |
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Tags: 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish), 1916, 8 October 1916, 9 October 1916, A Hard Rains Gonna Fall, Adanac Military Cemetery, Bell's Hill, Brothers and Sisters, Chilliwack, Chilliwack Museum, Chilliwack War Memorial, Family, Fathers and Mothers, Five Corners, Former Chilliwack City Hall, Friends, Honour, Inspiration, James Cleland Richardson, Lovers, Peace, Piper Richardson Centennial, Piper Richardson Statue, Relatives, Rutherglen, Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, Sons and Daughters, United Church Chilliwack, Victoria Cross
pferguson | October 7, 2016
I Heard the Clang of a Bullet Some months prior to the attack on Regina Trench, 8 October 1916, Canadian troops were first issued with the steel helmet in the spring of 1916. Patented in London in 1915 by John Leopold Brodie of Buffalo, New York, the helmet came into general use when large quantities […]
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Tags: 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish), 1916, Augustus John, Batman, Canadian Expeditionary Force, David Hunter Bell, Helmet (Steel) Mk. I, John Leopold Brodie, M.C. (Military Cross), Prisoners of War, Regina Trench, RIfle, St. Eloi, Steel Helmet, Tin Hat
