pferguson | July 3, 2016
IN THE GREAT ADVANCE Canadian Officer’s Graphic Letter. The following is a letter from a young Canadian serving with an English regiment – an officer in the first line on the first day of the big offensive: – July 1. I am writing this in a dug-out about 200 yards from German lines. […]
Category: Snapshots of the Great War |
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Tags: 1 July 1916, Battleplanes, Canadian Officer in an English Regiment, First Day of the Somme, German Protest 1898, Hague Convention 1899, Hawthorn Ridge, Lyddite Shells, Machine Guns, Propaganda
pferguson | August 3, 2014
An Online Exhibit for Every Day of the Great War Marking 100 Years Distant Yesterday Theirs’ was a distant yesterday. These men and women who joined the campaign that took them to far and distant places. Towns and villages that would become all too familiar to other towns and villages as a timeline of chaos […]
Category: Odds & Ends |
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Tags: Darkness, Family, Great War, Home, Letters, Light, Machine Guns, Menin Gate, Nurses, Online Exhibit, Poperinghe, Postcards, Shrapnel, Somme, Storytelling, Wounded
