pferguson | November 10, 2022

Drocourt-Quéant Line near Vis-en-Artois: Action of 1-2 September 1918 No inscription on marker For most conspicuous bravery during the operations against the Drocourt-Queant line on Sept. 1st and 2nd, 1918. On Sept. 1st, when his battalion was in the vicinity of Vis-en-Artois, preparatory to the advance, the enemy laid down a heavy barrage and counter-attacked. […]

Category: November Series, Remember Them Well | No Comments »
Tags: 1 September 1918, 18 September 1918, 2 September 1918, 38th Canadian Infantry Battalion, Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney VC DCM MM, Drocourt-Quéant Line, Posthumous Victoria Cross, Samuel Lewis Honey VC DCM MM, Vis-en-Artois (France), Western Front 1999

pferguson | April 21, 2020

Camouflet a mine so charged and placed that its detonation will destroy enemy mining tunnels. 2a. an underground or subsurface explosion of a bomb or shell that leaves a sealed pocket of smoke and gas. 2b. a pocket formed in this way. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary) I return this evening to a favoured online resource. As I […]

Category: Inspired By a True Story, Remember Them Well | No Comments »
Tags: 26 March 1917, 38th Canadian Infantry Battalion, Boezinge, Cadence, Camouflet, Charles Gordon Matthewson, Corporal Richard Rainford, COVID-19, David McCullough (Narrator), Dixmude, Dugout, Ernest David Ruffles, Gas, George Frederick Giddens, George Nicholls, George William Ewart Jemmett, Gus Sheff, Life Saving, Military Medal, Private Albert Ernest Carey, Private Harold Leslie Edwards, Sergeant Thomas Clifford Briscoe, Shelby Foote (Novelist-Historian), Souchez (France), Storytelling, Villers Station Cemetery, William Valentine, Yorkshire Trench

pferguson | April 10, 2020

The Soldier 410457 George Gabriel Boland What’s he going to do this soldier – 410457? He was born in Wrexham, North Wales…served briefly in the U.S. Army…once was a sailor…with a Goddess of Liberty tattoo inked on his left arm. He stood 5’ 3.5”. At the time of his enlistment, in March 1915, George Gabriel […]

Category: Inspired By a True Story | No Comments »
Tags: 38th Canadian Infantry Battalion, Concertina, Cy Endfield, Field Punishment No. 1, Film History, George Gabriel Boland, Military Medal, Parapet, Passchendaele, Singing, Song, Stanley Baker, Zulu