pferguson | August 3, 2014
An Online Exhibit for Every Day of the Great War Marking 100 Years Distant Yesterday Theirs’ was a distant yesterday. These men and women who joined the campaign that took them to far and distant places. Towns and villages that would become all too familiar to other towns and villages as a timeline of chaos […]
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Tags: Darkness, Family, Great War, Home, Letters, Light, Machine Guns, Menin Gate, Nurses, Online Exhibit, Poperinghe, Postcards, Shrapnel, Somme, Storytelling, Wounded
pferguson | November 21, 2012
National Army Museum Video, London, England The Old Wooden Box The old hinged wooden box belonged to their father and grandfather. It sat upon a shelf in his room where he read the newspaper and scribbled a few notes, the reminders of the day. A few times a year Grampa might take the box down […]
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Tags: 16th Battalion C.E.F., Badges, Canadian Scottish, Family, Great War, Medals, National Army Museum (London - England), Pins, Postcards, Remembrance, Souvenirs, The Meaning of Medals