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 […]
Category: Remember Them Well |
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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 | January 18, 2016
16th Battalion C.E.F. Prisoners of War (Part 1) At long last the first installment of Canadian Scottish soldiers captured during the Great War. This work would not have been possible without the tremendous effort of the late Ted Wigney whose work, in recording and publishing (for all) a record of CEF prisoners of war, was a […]
Category: Snapshots of the Great War |
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