pferguson | May 2, 2018
Fallen Comrades and Common Dangers With the dawn of May 1945 news from the BBC announced Adolph Hitler was dead. Two days later Berlin had fallen. The Canadian Scottish remained vigilant, ready for the continuing fray preparing itself for an assault on Aurich, Germany to commence 4 May, 1945. However, news that day brought word…tremendous […]
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Tags: 5 May 1945, Aurich (Germany), Canadian Scottish Regiment, Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery, Hotel de Wereld (Wageningen), Lüneberg Heath (Germany), May 1945, Netherlands, VE Day, Victory in Europe, Wagenigen (Netherlands), WWII Ceasefire
pferguson | November 8, 2017
The Roar and the Whisper So many lives to remember. Those who did not return and those who survived. Those who walk each day with the reminders of someone. These reminders not shadows, but real events, real lives, husbands and wives, sons and daughters, parents, family, friends and lovers. We see their faces every day, […]
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Tags: Airborne Memorial (Oosterbeek - Netherlands), Canadian Scottish Regiment, Daughters, Family, Film History, Friends, Great War, Hedgerow Cemetery (Belgium), Husbands, Lovers, Memorial Bench, Notting Hill, Parents, Remembrance, Sons, St. Eloi Crater (Belgium), War Graves, War Memorials, WIves, World War Two
pferguson | June 5, 2016
Sergeant William Garner Croix de Guerre avec Etoile De Bronze (France) On 6 June 1944 (D day) at COURSEULLES-sur-MER, France, K57764 Sergeant William GARNER, medical Sergeant 1st Battalion Canadian Scottish Regiment, landed with his unit on the beach amid heavy mortar and machine gun fire. Completely disregarding his own safety he began immediately to treat […]
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Tags: 6 June 1944, Beach, Canadian Scottish Regiment, D-Day, Fatalities, French Croix de Guerre, L.C.A., Landing Craft Assault, Regimental Aid Post, Second World War, Sergeant William Garner, Stretcher Bearers, Wounded
pferguson | May 4, 2016
May 4th – May 5th It’s a fine day as the classical notes from a flute drift across the airwaves into the clubhouse. I turn towards the retro-styled ’30s radio as the tempo rises, lowers and then gently hovers as my thoughts cascade towards these day in 1945 – May 4th/5th, the Netherlands and the Canadian Scottish. […]
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pferguson | June 8, 2013
“Their training had been good and their spirit and morale had been proved. They had yet to learn to be as hard and ruthless and cunning as the enemy, but these attitudes were being formed with each day’s experiences. There was still plenty to absorb, but there was one thing that could not be taught […]
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Tags: Alfred Leo Frost, Arrol Biggart Mitchell, Aubrey Charles Peck, Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, Canadian Scottish Regiment, D-Day, Distinguished Conduct Medal, Distinguished Service ORder, Edward Jobes, Frederick Norman Cabeldu, Honours and Awards, Military Cross, Military Medal, Normandy, Putot-en-Bessin, Ready for the Fray, Vilhelm Roger Schjelderup, William Harold Victor Matthews