pferguson | November 9, 2022
Le Verguier, France: Action of 21 March 1918 NEVER SHALL HIS MEMORY FADE For most conspicuous bravery, determination and ability displayed on the 21st March, 1918, at Le Verguier, when holding for two hours, in face of incessant attacks, the flank of a small isolated post. Owing to mist the enemy approached the post from […]
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Tags: 18 April 1918, 21 March 1918, Devonshire Trench, Fricourt German Cemetery, German Spring Offensive, John William Sayer VC, La Cateau Military Cemetery, Le Verguier (France), Lone Tree, Posthumous Victoria Cross, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
pferguson | September 3, 2018
Friends are good on the day of battle Located near to Y Ravine, within the present day Newfoundland Park, the 51st Division Memorial commemorates their success during the Battle of the Ancre 13 November 1916. The memorial project was aided by the good work of Lieutenant Colonel Nangle, the former Roman Catholic padre of the […]
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Tags: 11 November 1918, 13 November 1916, 21 March 1918, 28 September 1924, 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 51st (Highland) Division Memorial, 51st Highland Division, Armistice, Battle of the Ancre, Beaumont-Hamel, Blitz, Bob Rowan, Charles Ross Paulin, Ferdinand Jean Marie Foch, Friends are good on the day of battle, Gaelic, George Henry Paulin, Glasgow Highlanders (1/9 Highland Light Infantry), LA A' BHLAIR S MATH NA CAIRDEAN, March Offensive, Memorialization, Memorials, Newfoundland Park, P. Sinclair, pipers, Somme, Thomas Matthew Mary Nangle, Treaty of Versailles, Y Ravine
pferguson | March 14, 2018
Far from the Perfect Circle of the Sky The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. “Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?” he asked. “Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, ”and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” (L. Carroll) The March hare has risen amidst the March thaw in search […]
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Tags: 21 March 1918, Alan Knyveton Hargreaves DSO, Alice Liddell, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Caryl Liddell Hargreaves, Edwin Curran, Guillemont Road Cemetery, John Tenniel, Leopold Reginald Hargreaves MC, Lewis Carroll, March Offensive, Poetry, Reginald Hargreaves [Sr.], Spring Offensive, Sword of Damocles, The King, The March Hare, The March Thaw, The White Rabbit
