pferguson | November 7, 2022
Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, Belgium: Action of 28 September 1917 THY WILL BE DONE NOT MINE For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty when on two occasions our advance was temporarily held up by strongly defended “pill-boxes”. Pte. Bugden, in the face of devastating fire from machine guns, gallantly led small parties to attack these […]
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Tags: 15th Canadian Infantry Battalion (48th Highlanders), 28 September 1917, 31st Battalion Australian Imperial Force, Hill 60, Hooge Crater Cemetery, Larchwood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery (Belgium), Maple Copse Cemetery, Observatory Ridge, Patrick Joseph Bugden VC, Polygon Wood, Poppy, Posthumous Victoria Cross
pferguson | March 31, 2020
I wonder… Each night I walk. A steady jaunt through the neighbourhood, choosing to walk when fewer people are about…there is less risk that way. As I walk the road the 7 PM salute to our first responders builds. I watch as one curious robin hops across a lawn, his ear openings wizened to these […]
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Tags: 4th Canadian Infantry Battalion, COVID-19, Edward Atherton, France and Flanders, Military Medal, Observatory Ridge, Poppy, Stretcher Bearer, Zouave Valley Cemetery
pferguson | August 19, 2018
Thread Fourteen …and now we have been…and we have returned. The landscapes of France and Flanders…London…have offered of themselves…their connections to us. We have rediscovered, found, observed and, above all, we have become connected. In finding the threads between the thimbles and needles we have bore witness the fabric of history…perhaps patchwork…but ours for all […]
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Tags: 1928-2018, 8 August 2018, British Legion Great Pilgrimage, Menin Gate, Poppy, Remembrance
pferguson | May 1, 2015
“O the bleeding drops of red”* Here we are – near to 100 years ago – 3 May 1915 – since Canadian soldier, officer, doctor John McCrae penned, “In Flanders Fields”. McCrae’s reflections upon the loss of fellow soldier and friend, Alexis Helmer, are a personal witness to war that placed within the grasp of […]
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Tags: Bonneau, Dad, Daddy, Father, Flanders, France, Great War, Great War Veterans' Association, In Flanders Fields, John McCrae, O Captain My Captain, O the bleeding drops of red, Pater, Pere, Poetry, Poppies, Poppy, reflection, Remembrance, Vater, Walt Whitman