pferguson | August 17, 2017
For Freedom and Honour…For Valour There is a round bronze disc about 5″ across…Britannia with a lion, a son’s or daughter’s name, and the words “HE [or SHE] DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR. One Vancouver, B.C. family to receive a Great War Memorial Plaque was the family of Captain Cecil Mack Merritt, a former officer […]
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Tags: 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish), 19 August 1942, 23 April 1915, 72nd Regiment (Seaforth Highlanders of Canada), Cecil Mack Merritt, Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt, Dieppe Raid, Fathers, For Freedom and Honour, For Valour, George Randolph Pearkes, Memorial Cross, Memorial Plaque, Mentioned in Despatches, Pourville, Pourville (France), Saskatchewan Regiment, Sons, St. Julien (Belgium), Victoria Cross
pferguson | March 25, 2017
Whitehall, London, England A recent walk along Whitehall, London, England took us past The Silver Cross pub, where much to my surprise I noted that the ornate pub sign was removed. The sign is patterned after the Canadian Memorial Cross, also known as the Mother’s Cross and the Silver Cross, I was concerned that the […]
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Tags: 22 March 2017, Canadian Memorial Cross, Elizabeth Cross, Greene King, London (England), Memorial Cross, Mother's Cross, Mothers, New Zealand Memorial Cross, Pubs, Remembrance, Silver Cross, The Silver Cross, Whitehall, Widows
