pferguson | August 11, 2017
Captain Oswald Howey Lunham, “…for now and all time” The Highway takes us up the island to our turn to the left…..to a solitary church…..near to a railway bridge…..near to a river. Sitting at my desk some while back I wrote and re-wrote the words that have become this day’s Passchendaele. A battle whose centennial […]
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Tags: 10 November 1917, 13th Canadian Machine Gun Company, Canadian Hero Fund, Highway of Heroes, Myrtle Lunham, Oswald Howey Lunham, Passchendaele (Belgium), Shell Shock, Trews
pferguson | February 15, 2013
The CEF, Pill-boxes and the Victoria Cross Pill-boxes were annoying obstacles and the cause of considerable struggles on the Western Front. In areas where the water table was near to the surface it was best to build above ground defences rather than dig in. The ground these fortifications commanded, before them and between them, was […]
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Tags: Charles Smith Rutherford, Christopher Patrick John O'Kelly, George Harry Mullin, Hugh McKenzie, Monchy-le-Preux (France), Passchendaele (Belgium), Pill-box, Thomas William Holmes, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Victoria Cross
