pferguson | November 4, 2021
Sergeant Alfred Norris M.M. and Bar 438822 1st Battalion Canadian Machine Gun Corps For Bravery in the Field…a twice decorated soldier who was awarded the Military Medal and a bar, representing a second award of this honour. Alfred Norris received recognition for his coolness and courage at Fresnoy, France and again for conspicuous gallantry at Passchendaele […]
Category: November Series, Remember Them Well, Snapshots of the Great War |
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Tags: 3 May 1917, 4 May 1917, 4 November 1918, 8 November 1917, Alfred Norris, Brookwood Military Cemetery, Canadian Machine Gun Corps, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Emma Gees, Fresnoy, Honours and Awards, Military Medal (MM), Passchendaele
pferguson | July 8, 2018
Near to an ending? The passing days of centenary have provided several opportunities to pause and think upon celebration, commemoration, reconciliation. Now near to the end, those of us who have chosen to venture into the marshes of conflict must come to terms with 100 years plus one, plus two and so on. Although centenaries […]
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Tags: 8 August 1918 - 11 November 1918, Abancourt (France), Alexander Picton Brereton VC, Amiens (France), Arras (France), Arras-Cambrai Road (France), Arthur George Knight VC, Bar (Second Award), Bellenden Seymour Hutcheson VC MC, Blecourt (France), Boiry-Becquerelle (France), Bourlon Wood (France), Cagnicourt (France), Cambrai (France), Canada's 100 Days, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canal de L’Escaut (France), Charles Smith Rutherford VC MC MM, Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney VC DCM MM, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG), Coulson Norman Mitchell VC MC, Cyrus Wesley Peck VC DSO and Bar, Demuin (France), Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM), Distinguished Service Order (DSO), Dury – Arras Sector (France), Frederick George Coppins VC, Fresnes-Rouvroy Line (France), George Fraser Kerr VC MC and Bar MM, Graham Thomson Lyall VC, Hallu (France), Hangard Wood (France), Harry Garnet Bedford Miner VC, Hatchet Woods (France), Henry (Harry) Garnet Bedford Miner VC, Herman James Good VC, Hugh Cairns VC DCM, Inscriptions, James Edward Tait VC MC, Jean Baptiste Arthur Brillant VC MC, John Bernard Croak VC, John Francis Young VC, John MacGregor VC MC and Bar DCM, Meharicourt (France), Military Cross (MC), Military Medal (MM), Milton Fowler Gregg VC MC and Bar, MM, Monchy (France), Neuville St. Remy (France), Parvillers (France), Parvillers-le-Quesnoy (France), Raphael Louis Zengel VC MM, Rifle Wood (France), Robert Spall VC, Samuel Lewis Honey VC DCM MM, Thomas Fasti Dinesen VC, Valenciennes (France) Marley (France), Victoria Cross, Villers-les-Cagnicourt (France), Vis-en-Artois (France), Wallace Lloyd Algie VC, Walter Leigh Rayfield VC, Warvillers (France), William Henry Metcalf VC MM and Bar, William Hew Clark-Kennedy VC CMG DSO and Bar, William Merrifield VC MM
