pferguson | February 21, 2021
The Strang Brothers Some years ago, a decision was made to visit Winnipeg and have a wander about over a three-day period. The visit was our typical exploration of a city, its cemeteries, historical sites and points of interest. Much was learned as both new names of interest and familiar ones were brought to light. […]
Category: Remember Them Well |
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Tags: 16th Battalion Veterans Association, 16th Canadian Infantry Battalion (The Canadian Scottish), Amputation, Campbell Sinclair Strang, Harold Beresford Sinclair Strang, Honours and Awards, La Boiselle, Robert "Robin" Sinclair Strang, St. John's Anglican Cathedral (Winnipeg)
pferguson | July 1, 2019
La Boiselle this day so many years ago… This Day – 1 July 2019 When I can…I walk this ground, towards La Boiselle… We are in this place, peaceful now, but where the hearts of men once beat with adrenaline as they advanced. Their rhythms interrupted by the stuttering power of the seemingly endless machine […]
Category: Pipers of War |
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Tags: 1 July 1916, 102nd (Tyneside Scottish) Brigade, 20th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (1st Tyneside Scottish), 21st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (2nd Tyneside Scottish), 22nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (3rd Tyneside Scottish), 23rd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (4th Tyneside Scottish), First Day of the Somme, La Boiselle, Mash Valley, Sausage Valley, Tyneside Pipers
pferguson | February 25, 2012
Thomas Orde Lawder Wilkinson VC 7th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, La Boiselle, France. July 5, 1916 Born in 1894 at Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England, Thomas Wilkinson came to Canada in 1912, and, prior to the Great War, worked as a surveyor on Vancouver Island and in Burnaby, B.C. He joined the 16th Battalion C.E.F. on […]
Category: Odds & Ends |
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Tags: 16th Battalion C.E.F., La Boiselle, Loyal North Lancashire Regimnet, Machine Gun, Rescue, Sandwick Cairn, Somme Casualties, Thiepval War Memorial, Thomas Orde Lawder Wilkinson, Victoria Cross