B.C. DAY & THE GREAT WAR

| August 1, 2014

B.C.’s 1914 Canadian Expeditionary Force Battalions On August 4, 2014 the 100th anniversaries of the Great War will be launched.  On this day in 1914 Britain declared war against Germany launching itself and the nations of the Commonwealth into the fray. As mentioned, in an earlier blog, this date will be the start of numerous […]

Belgian Rattlesnakes

| March 9, 2013

The CEF, the Lewis Gun and the Victoria Cross Designed in the United States the air cooled Lewis Gun was widely adopted by British and Commonwealth forces in 1915. However, Belgian forces were equipped with the Lewis gun  in 1913 and when German forces  first encountered this light machine gun in 1914 they nicknamed the weapon, […]