pferguson | October 28, 2022
George Findlater VC The National Army Museum (NAM) retains in its holdings some items related to Piper George Findlater who became a recipient of the Victoria Cross for his actions 20 October 1897 at the Battle of the Dargai Heights. Included in the NAM’s collection is a silver-plated statuette, Findlater’s smashed bagpipe chanter from Dargai, […]
Category: Pipers of War |
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Tags: 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders, Dargai Heights, Edward Matthew Hale, Elkington & Company, Khyber Pass, National Army Museum, Piper George Findlater VC, Tirah Field Force, Victoria Cross
pferguson | May 29, 2022
A War Horse Story In 2006 while on tour with an English friend across the landscapes of the Western Front, we happened upon the horse memorial at Chipilly. Time was of the essence, our host and driver wanted to show us as much as possible, I managed to ask for a quick stop to roll […]
Category: Art, Snapshots of the Great War |
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Tags: 1st Canadian Pioneer Battalion, 58th (London) Division Memorial, Canadian Forestry Corps, Chilliwack, Chipilly (France), Handspring Puppet Company, Henri Gauquie, In Flanders Fields Museum, John Tams, Michael Morpurgo, National Army Museum, Only Remembered, Royal National Theatre (London), Sculpture, Soldiers Settlement Board, Thomas Prentiss Wicks, War Horse
pferguson | November 5, 2019
Next-of-kin who wish… HERE LIES Lord Edward B. Seymour, Lord Strathcona’s Horse Died of Wounds 5-12-17 Received in Action 2-12-17. Hand-written, black painted words and dates, upon a once white painted wooden cross, held by Holy Trinity Church, Arrow, Warwickshire. The cross, anchored to the wall above a decorative brass plaque also in Lord Seymour’s […]
Category: Remember Them Well |
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Tags: Albert Leslie Coote, Chilliwack, Christ Church Cathedral, Edith Frances Chambers, Edward Chandos Elliot Chambers, Frederick Despard Pemberton, Graves Registration Unit, Imperial War Graves Commission, Imperial War Museum, Joshua Strong, Lord Edward Beauchamp Seymour, National Army Museum, R.E.E. Chambers, Richard Arthur Henderson, Richard Edward Elliot Chambers, War Graves
pferguson | November 8, 2018
Lest We Forget The day begins with a walk to the National Army Museum [NAM]. Along the way a Poppy Appeal bus attracts my attention. Quickly the camera is out, but the bus changes course…we continue along our urban streetscape, pass by wreaths adorning shops, Chelsea Barracks and a remembrance display at the Royal Hospital Chelsea. […]
Category: Our Thoughts, Remember Them Well |
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Tags: Blitz, Buses, Clarke’s, Imperial War Museum, Inspector Blake, London Transport, National Army Museum, On the Buses, Poppy Appeal, Stan Butler, Tate Britain, Television History
pferguson | May 13, 2017
The Nile Campaign 1884 – 1885 As we walk from Liverpool train station the blue-green figure of an officer on a stone plinth attracts us. Together we walk across the roadway and stand before Major General George Earle CB, CSI. Upon the plaque KIRBEKAN stands out from the text and my mind, for I have […]
Category: Our Thoughts |
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Tags: Abu Klea, Ancientania, Brighton, British Museum, Canadian Boatman, Chilliwack, Echoes, Egypt, Kamloops, Khartoum, King and Country, Kirbekan, Liverpool, London (England), Major General William Earle, Malcolm MacLeod, Mortar, National Army Museum, Nile Campaign 1884-1885, Nile Voyageur, Old Steine Gardens, Pleasant Cemetery, Queen and Country, Queen Victoria, Royal Sussex Regiment, Soudan, Sudan, The Nile, Tommy Atkins, William Southern
