pferguson | January 10, 2020
16th Battalion C.E.F. Prisoners of War (Part 3) Every two years (in January) I have returned to my 16th Canadian Infantry Battalion Prisoner of War research project. To my surprise the battalion does not appear to have had any service personnel captured during 1917. Of particular interest in this the third and final installment are […]
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Tags: 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish), Arras, Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Charles Margetts, Cuvillers, David Clelland MC, Escape, Haynecourt, James Rodolphus Jenkins (Escaper), John Clarence Scott, Kingsley Gower Poole, Military Cross, Military Service Act 1917, Mons Communal Cemetery, Niederzwehren War Cemetery, Norman Hough, Parvillers, Parvillers-Schwetz Wood, Prisoners of War, Quiévrain Communal Cemetery, Royden Percival Patton, Royden Percival Patton (Escaper), Sidney James Smith, Tells of Stirring Incidents at Front, Valenciennes (St. Roch) Communal Cemetery
pferguson | March 9, 2013
The CEF, the Lewis Gun and the Victoria Cross Designed in the United States the air cooled Lewis Gun was widely adopted by British and Commonwealth forces in 1915. However, Belgian forces were equipped with the Lewis gun in 1913 and when German forces first encountered this light machine gun in 1914 they nicknamed the weapon, […]
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Tags: 20th Battalion CEF, 22nd Battalion CEF, 46th Battalion CEF, 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles, Belgian Rattlesnakes, C.E.F., Canadian National War Memorial, Charles Smith Rutherford VC MC MM, Frederick Hobson VC, Hill 70, Hugh Cairns VC DCM, Joseph Kaeble VC MM, Lens, Lewis Guns, Monchy-le-Preux, Neuville-Vitasse, Parvillers, PPCLI, Robert Spall VC, Valenciennes
