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 […]
Category: Remember Them Well |
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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 | September 21, 2016
“It has not been all milk and honey…” Originally with the 88th Victoria Fusiliers, Private Kingham served as a sniper with the 16th Battalion C.E.F. (Canadian Scottish). Kingham was with his battalion on the Somme and wrote about this time when half his platoon was killed on their way to the front line. The article entitled, Slaughter […]
Category: Snapshots of the Great War |
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Tags: 14th Battalion CEF (Royal Montreal Regiment), 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish), 1916, 1st Canadian Division, 88th Victoria Fusiliers, Ambulance, Australian Imperial Forces, Boulogne, Dug-out, Head Wound, Hill 60, Hospital Train, Joshua Rowland Kingham, Kingham-Gillespie Coal Co., Moquet Farm, Slaughter on the Somme, Sniper, Somme, Star Shells, The Daily Colonist, Transport, Traveling, Trenches, Underage, Ypres
