pferguson | March 29, 2022
Presence and Present Ypres (Ieper) one of my favorite places to visit, not only as the small city is paramount to many of my immediate interests of the Great War, but now having visited often I simply like the town. The square with its shops for browsing, grazing and watering, the canal and the ramparts, […]
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Tags: Annie Eliza Bardolph Buchanan, Art, Arthur Alleyne Kingsley Conan Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, Artists, Australian War Memorial, Cornfields, Ieper, James Buchanan (1st Baron Woolavington), John Kipling, Menin Gate at Midnight, Remembrance, Rudyard Kipling, Scotch Whiskey, Spiritualism, Whiskey, Will Langstaff, Ypres
pferguson | March 25, 2013
Finding Balance Hall of Valour, Canberra, Australia “In the hall the small crosses that mean so much lie under the stories of those who earned them.” Ben Lisson, ABC News Not silver, not gold. No fine enamels, nor precious gems, a simple cross of bronze suspended from a crimson ribbon. On the cross pattee a […]
Category: Odds & Ends, Pipers of War |
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Tags: Australian Victoria Cross Recipients, Australian War Memorial, Balance, For Valour, Hall of Valour, Monumental, Museum Exhibitions, Personal, Symbolic, Victoria Cross