pferguson | November 1, 2019
Canadian War Graves Detachment, Ypres To the innermost heart of their own land they are known As the stars are known to the Night (For the Fallen, Laurence Binyon, mid-September 1914) We are the dead…short days ago… And so they came – the pilgrims. With war’s end some of those left to remember arrived in […]
Category: Remember Them Well |
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Tags: 13th Battalion CEF (Royal Highlanders), Boulevard Porte de Menin, Canada Garage, Canadian Red Cross, Canadian War Graves Detachment, Church Army, For the Fallen, Henry Howard Chanter, In Flanders Fields, Laurence Binyon, Pilgrims, Salvation Army, St. Barnabas, War Graves, Y.M.C.A., Ypres
pferguson | May 1, 2015
“O the bleeding drops of red”* Here we are – near to 100 years ago – 3 May 1915 – since Canadian soldier, officer, doctor John McCrae penned, “In Flanders Fields”. McCrae’s reflections upon the loss of fellow soldier and friend, Alexis Helmer, are a personal witness to war that placed within the grasp of […]
Category: Our Thoughts |
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Tags: Bonneau, Dad, Daddy, Father, Flanders, France, Great War, Great War Veterans' Association, In Flanders Fields, John McCrae, O Captain My Captain, O the bleeding drops of red, Pater, Pere, Poetry, Poppies, Poppy, reflection, Remembrance, Vater, Walt Whitman
