pferguson | April 2, 2020
The Math is Staggering The Home Front has returned. Mobilized now to fight an invisible enemy the need is great. Like those who gathered materials for two world wars they work…long days… with heart, dedication, love, concern. During the Great War those on the home front accepted linens, cottons, flannels and blankets to be re-purposed, […]
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Tags: Arthur Edward Pitman, British Empire Medal, Cholera, COVID-19, Home Front, Prisoner of War, Royal Army Medical Corps
pferguson | December 25, 2018
Christmas Parcels The joy delivered to soldiers at the front…a little bit of peace from home. Gathered together they made the most of their day. A little welcome celebration…pooling their newly delivered resources…Tommy, Billy, Robert, James, Jeremy and others…Merry Christmas to all. Across British Columbia news of parcels and soldiers made their way into the […]
Category: Christmas Special |
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Tags: Bell Coola, Bella Coola Courier, Care Packages, Christmas, Christmas at the Front, Christmas Fund, Cranbrook, Cranbrook Herald, Cumberland, Enderby, Fortunino Matania, Hazelton, Hedley, Home Front, Lillooet, Oxo, Parcels, Soldiers, The Enderby Press, The Hedley Gazette, The Islander, The Omineca Miner, The Prospector
pferguson | August 26, 2016
More Character than Legend – More Legend than Ordinary How can it be possible – to feel both full and empty at the same time? Filled with a lifetime of memories fleeting past in rapid succession and yet a vast emptiness, a hollowness that yearns for one last conversation. Our Eddie left us yesterday…and so […]
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