pferguson | November 4, 2021
Sergeant Alfred Norris M.M. and Bar 438822 1st Battalion Canadian Machine Gun Corps For Bravery in the Field…a twice decorated soldier who was awarded the Military Medal and a bar, representing a second award of this honour. Alfred Norris received recognition for his coolness and courage at Fresnoy, France and again for conspicuous gallantry at Passchendaele […]
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Tags: 3 May 1917, 4 May 1917, 4 November 1918, 8 November 1917, Alfred Norris, Brookwood Military Cemetery, Canadian Machine Gun Corps, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Emma Gees, Fresnoy, Honours and Awards, Military Medal (MM), Passchendaele
pferguson | May 3, 2020
Remembered A solitary grass and flower muncher ambles across the road from one yard to the next. Unperturbed by the white painted fence it approaches and without the leaping gait of a high jumper, this fleet of foot one, simply springs from a standing position across the obstacle. Then turning its head, to look at […]
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Tags: 3 May 1917, 31st Canadian Infantry Battalion, COVID-19, Family, Fresnoy, Hazel Dougan (nee Berget), Ole Berget, Remembrance, Vimy Memorial
pferguson | April 8, 2017
How many eyes have seen these names… and whispered voices read them softly? (P. Ferguson, © September 1999) ————————-o————————- Part One The Battle for Vimy Ridge Vimy Ridge, a northern French landscape helped establish Canada’s identity as a nation unto itself. Heavily fortified along a seven kilometer front the Ridge, occupied by German forces, held a […]
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Tags: 1936 Vimy Pilgrimage, 29 September 1916, 3 May 1917, 31st Battalion CEF, 50th Battalion CEF, 83rd Battalion CEF, Alderson (Alberta), Bernard Kyllo, Byng of Vimy, Canadian Legion, Canadian Legion Dominion Convention 1928, Charlotte Susan Wood, Emma Berget, Expression in Stone, Frederick Louis Wood, Harry Ambrose Willis, King Edward VIII, Medicine Hat (Alberta), Memorials, Monuments, Mother Canada, Mountain View Cemetery (Vancouver), Mrs. MacDonald, Mrs. McDermott, Mrs. Wardle, Ole Berget, Remembrance, Richard Peter Unthank, Sculpture, Silver Cross Mother, Statues, The Epic of Vimy, Vimy Memorial, William Arthur Unthank
