pferguson | September 19, 2017
For a Thousand Years Each new day here on the Salient brings something new to my being. Though we have seen many of these places before with each new step there is a new experience to feel, a new plain to watch across. Today we have traded four wheels for two, from fossil fuel to foot […]
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Tags: 15th Battalion CEF, 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish), 1st Canadian Division, Churchbells, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Family, For a Thousand Years, Hill 60, Hooge Crater Cemetery, Lady Haig Poppy Cross, Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery, Maple Copse Cemetery, Mont Sorrel, Remembrance, Wreaths, Ypres Salient, Zillebeke Churchyard Cemetery
pferguson | August 17, 2017
For Freedom and Honour…For Valour There is a round bronze disc about 5″ across…Britannia with a lion, a son’s or daughter’s name, and the words “HE [or SHE] DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR. One Vancouver, B.C. family to receive a Great War Memorial Plaque was the family of Captain Cecil Mack Merritt, a former officer […]
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Tags: 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish), 19 August 1942, 23 April 1915, 72nd Regiment (Seaforth Highlanders of Canada), Cecil Mack Merritt, Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt, Dieppe Raid, Fathers, For Freedom and Honour, For Valour, George Randolph Pearkes, Memorial Cross, Memorial Plaque, Mentioned in Despatches, Pourville, Pourville (France), Saskatchewan Regiment, Sons, St. Julien (Belgium), Victoria Cross
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 […]
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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
