pferguson | May 30, 2023
The Artillery Barrage Light gauge railways delivered ammunition to the frontline. Prior to the attack on 1 July 1916 a seven-day barrage fired 1.5 million shells. Of these it is estimated 1/3 of them were duds. The Canadian Expeditionary Force’s battalions took part in the Battle of the Somme but much later than the events […]
Category: Snapshots of the Great War |
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Tags: Artillery, Barrage, Battle of the Somme, Bombardment, Iron harvest, Ordnance, Railways
pferguson | September 21, 2017
Expressions On Their Faces The wheels begin to roll earlier today, across the cobbled back streets towards the Groote Markt and on through the Lille Gate. We are headed south of Ypres past Bedford House towards the St. Eloi Craters. The route today is almost a re-creation of our first visit to the Salient. At […]
Category: Remember Them Well |
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Tags: Bedford House, Chester Farm, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, CWGC Cemeteries, Iron harvest, Menin Gate, pipers, Remembrance, Spoilbank, St. Eloi Craters, The Last Post, The Last Post Association, Ypres, Ypres-Comines Canal
pferguson | December 30, 2011
Reflecting Upon War Horse The plow cuts its way into the ground, and turns the earth over to one side heaping the rich soil atop the furrow’s parapet. As Albert urges Joey through this field of stone, once again I turn myself towards the ploughed fields of France and Flanders, and to the harvest. Albert […]
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Tags: Albert, Auchonvillers, France and Flanders, Great War, Hawthorn Ridge, Iron harvest, Joey, War Horse