pferguson | November 6, 2021
Gunner Wainwright Merrill served as Arthur Ashton Stanley 343939 6th Siege Battery Canadian Garrison Artillery Though the Wainwright Merrill story can be found elsewhere on the internet (See Lauren D. Sphon: The Harvard Crimson) he is chosen here for a simple reflection on my part….a parent’s walk to their child’s graveside at Ypres Reservoir Cemetery […]
pferguson | November 5, 2021
Captain John Francis Allen 1st Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Buried at Ypres Town Cemetery John Francis Allen’s father, William Henry, lived at Broham House, Broham, Bedford, England. The 1st Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment landed at Le Havre, France 13 August 1914 and participated in many of the war’s early engagements, the Battles of […]
pferguson | November 4, 2021
Sergeant Alfred Norris M.M. and Bar 438822 1st Battalion Canadian Machine Gun Corps For Bravery in the Field…a twice decorated soldier who was awarded the Military Medal and a bar, representing a second award of this honour. Alfred Norris received recognition for his coolness and courage at Fresnoy, France and again for conspicuous gallantry at Passchendaele […]
pferguson | November 3, 2021
Private Samuel Fulcher Davies 825 8th Battalion East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) In Loving Memory of My Dear Husband He Gave All for Our Freedom reads the inscription on the marker of Samuel Davies, aged 40, killed in action 3 November 1915. His wife, left to mourn, was Emma Elizabeth Davies, London. His late father’s […]
pferguson | November 2, 2021
Private Myer Morris Rogozinski served as Marcus Rosen 10304 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment Marcus Rosen was born in Kalisch, Poland although another source records his birth as London, England. Rosen, prior to the Great War, was learning to become a tailor but with the onset of the Great War enlisted into the British Army at […]
