pferguson | October 29, 2023
Returned Soldier Writes of Ghosts Too often the loser in that struggle was the ex-soldier, reduced to plead[ing] hopelessly with soul-less powers who renege their promises made, who grind these broken veterans to starvation, shame and suicide. (Will R. Bird M.M. (Returned Soldier) in Death So Noble, J. Vance, p. 119) William Richard Bird was a […]
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Tags: 25th Canadian Infantry Battalion, 42nd Canadian Infantry Battalion, 85th Canadian Infantry Battalion, And We Go On, Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, Ethel Bird, Ghosts Have Warm Hands, Hubert Craige Bird, Lewis Bransby Bird, Military Medal, Stanley Stephen Bird, Stephen Carman Bird, Thirteen Years After, William Richard Bird, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial
pferguson | August 23, 2017
Across the stone’s face, the letters have faded from view. It is our second visit to Cumberland in recent times…but some 13 years ago I first walked this place to learn of those whose lives were coal. Walking, as I do, length upon length of upright and earth lain markers I read the few lines […]
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Tags: 17 August 1917, 25th Canadian Infantry Battalion, 8 February 1923, Battle of Hill 70, Coal, Coal Miner, Coal Mining Man, Comx #4 Mine, Cumberland (BC), Cumberland Cemetery, Dave Waugh, John Alexander Smith, Kahlil Gibran, Lens (France), Painter, Ricky Skaggs, Robert Smith, Smith Family
pferguson | April 7, 2017
Two Pipers of Canada’s 25th Battalion The 25th Canadian Infantry Battalion, from Nova Scotia, was part of the 5th Infantry Brigade of the Second Canadian Division. The unit, although not considered a highland battalion, had a pipe band of 12 pipers and 10 drummers. The unit’s March Past was “MacKenzie Highlanders” and their mascot, a […]
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Tags: "Robert the Bruce", 1936 Vimy Pilgrimage, 25th Canadian Infantry Battalion, 5th Infantry Brigade, 9 April 1917, Amputation, Bonnie Dundee, Gassed, Machine Gun Fire, Mascots, Nova Scotia, Pipe Band, pipers, Pipes and Drums, Second Canadian Division, Shell Fire, Shell Shock, Vimy Ridge, Walter James Telfer, William Brand, Wounded
