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 […]
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Tags: 3 May 1917, 4 May 1917, 4 November 1918, 8 November 1917, Alfred Norris, Brookwood Military Cemetery, Canadian Machine Gun Corps, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Emma Gees, Fresnoy, Honours and Awards, Military Medal (MM), Passchendaele
pferguson | May 3, 2020
Remembered A solitary grass and flower muncher ambles across the road from one yard to the next. Unperturbed by the white painted fence it approaches and without the leaping gait of a high jumper, this fleet of foot one, simply springs from a standing position across the obstacle. Then turning its head, to look at […]
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Tags: 3 May 1917, 31st Canadian Infantry Battalion, COVID-19, Family, Fresnoy, Hazel Dougan (nee Berget), Ole Berget, Remembrance, Vimy Memorial
pferguson | May 1, 2017
Om morgonen, kvelden, natta* In the darkness of the early morning the men of Alberta waited for the barrage to commence which would send them “over the top.” In spite of the heavy enemy bombardment, there were few casualties before the opening of the attack; but in front, swept by rifle and machine-gun fire and […]
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Tags: 31st Canadian Infantry Battalion, 50th Canadian Infantry Battalion, Alberta, Alderson (Alberta), Berget Family, Bernard Kyllo, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Emma Berget, Fresnoy, Medicine Hat (Alberta), Norwegian, Norwegian-Canadian, Ole Berget, Souchez, Villers Station Cemetery, Vimy Memorial
pferguson | April 27, 2017
After Vimy Ernst Jünger was a German military officer whose memoir, Storm of Steel is considered a classic of Great War literature. Commissioned from the ranks, Jünger continued to serve with his regiment, the 73rd Hanoverian Regiment, and was wounded on 14 occasions. His description of his time in the French village of Fresnoy, prior […]
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Tags: 73rd Hanoverian Regiment, Artillery, Ernst Jünger, Fresnoy, Memoir, Pour le Mérite, Projectiles, Storm of Steel, Vimy