pferguson | October 31, 2021
The Registers We ride, we bike, we walk one road to another through country fields, forest (les bois) and urban centres. Some of the sites are near to our path while others meander off the larger trail. Many are destinations, others we find happenstance. There is always something to learn at each war graves cemetery. […]
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Tags: Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Hedge Row Trench Cemetery, Imperial War Graves Commission, Menin Gate War Memorial, Registers, Visitor's Books, War Graves
pferguson | November 6, 2019
Duhallow Blocks Duhallow ADS (Advanced Dressing Station) Cemetery, Belgium lent itself to the naming of a special memorial feature produced by the Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC) known as the Duhallow Block. These special memorials were first placed at the Duhallow cemetery, near Ypres. The blocks, as well as a related style headstone, are the memorial record […]
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Tags: Duhallow ADS Cemetery, Duhallow Block, Ecclesiasticus, Imperial War Graves Commission, Kipling Memorial, Perth Cemetery (China Wall), Rudyard Kipling, Special Memorials, Their Glory Shall Not Be Blotted Out
pferguson | November 5, 2019
Next-of-kin who wish… HERE LIES Lord Edward B. Seymour, Lord Strathcona’s Horse Died of Wounds 5-12-17 Received in Action 2-12-17. Hand-written, black painted words and dates, upon a once white painted wooden cross, held by Holy Trinity Church, Arrow, Warwickshire. The cross, anchored to the wall above a decorative brass plaque also in Lord Seymour’s […]
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Tags: Albert Leslie Coote, Chilliwack, Christ Church Cathedral, Edith Frances Chambers, Edward Chandos Elliot Chambers, Frederick Despard Pemberton, Graves Registration Unit, Imperial War Graves Commission, Imperial War Museum, Joshua Strong, Lord Edward Beauchamp Seymour, National Army Museum, R.E.E. Chambers, Richard Arthur Henderson, Richard Edward Elliot Chambers, War Graves
pferguson | November 4, 2019
The Imperial War Graves Commission During the Great War the work of Fabian Ware and his associates in the registration of war graves did not go unnoticed. Ware and others also became concerned for what would become of their work post-war. In January 1916 the National Committee for the Care of Soldier’s Graves was formed. […]
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Tags: Cross of Sacrifice, Directorate of War Graves Registration and Enquiries, Edward (Prince of Wales), Fabian Ware, Forceville, Frederic Kenyon (British Museum), Gertrude Jekyll, Imperial War Conference, Imperial War Graves Commission, John Kipling, King George V, Known unto God, Le Treport, Louvencourt, Menin Road South Military Cemetery, National Committee for the Care of Soldier’s Graves, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Edward Lutyens, Sir Herbert Baker, Sir Reginald Blomfield, Stone of Remembrance, The King's Pilgrimage, Their Name Liveth for Evermore, Tyne Cot Cemetery
pferguson | April 9, 2017
The Torch Be Yours to Hold it High Pilgrimages to the Western Front especially by family members in search of their fallen sons and daughters was discouraged during the Great War. However, with the end of the war in November 1918, many families, friends and fellow veterans returned to these places of conflict to seek […]
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Tags: 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish), 1936 Vimy Pilgrimage, 1936 Vimy Pilgrimage MEdal, Canadian Legion, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Imperial War Graves Commission, Pilgrimage, Pilgrims, Remembrance, The Epic of Vimy, Vimy Centenary 2017, Vimy Pilgrims, Vimy Restoration 2007, War Graves Registration Unit