pferguson | July 30, 2023
Remembrance on the Somme A visit to the Commonwealth War Graves website begins Close to 150,000 Commonwealth casualties are buried in close to 350 sites on the Somme. They range from large cemeteries with thousands of graves to individual graves in churchyards and burial grounds. There are eight memorials to the missing of the Battle […]
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Tags: Beaumont-Hamel (Newfoundland) Memorial, Devonshire Cemetery, Devonshire Cemetery Tablet, Inscriptions, Somme 1916
pferguson | June 29, 2022
The Darkest of Days The Battle of the Somme lasted for 141 days ending 18 November 1916. During its time the British Army and associated units of the British Commonwealth, including Canada, suffered some 650,000 casualties…200,000 lost their lives. It is, however, the first day…1 July 1916 that speaks with the loudest of voices…54,740 British […]
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Tags: 1 July 1916, Battle of the Somme, Beaumont-Hamel (Newfoundland) Memorial, Cowichan (B.C.), First Day of the Somme, Maurice Leslie Adamson, Newfoundland Regiment, Noel Beaumont Souper, Robert Alexander Rankine Campbell, Royal Berkshire Regiment, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Royal Scots Fusiliers, St. Andrew's Anglican Church, Thiepval Memorial, Vancouver (B.C.), Vancouver Island, Victoria (B.C.), West Yorkshire Regiment, William Edward Le Shana, William Francis Henry Pelly
