pferguson | April 2, 2020
The Math is Staggering The Home Front has returned. Mobilized now to fight an invisible enemy the need is great. Like those who gathered materials for two world wars they work…long days… with heart, dedication, love, concern. During the Great War those on the home front accepted linens, cottons, flannels and blankets to be re-purposed, […]
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Tags: Arthur Edward Pitman, British Empire Medal, Cholera, COVID-19, Home Front, Prisoner of War, Royal Army Medical Corps
pferguson | March 14, 2020
It has occurred, an unwanted centenary Following commemorations marking the days and events of the Great War Centenary, we now face the reappearance of an unwelcome 2020 visitor – a global pandemic. Mimicking the timing of the influenza pandemic of 1918 – 1920 we now have Coronavirus or COVID-19. The new virus first appeared towards […]
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Tags: Alan Arnett McLeod VC, Albert Edward McKenzie VC, All Saint’s Churchyard Extension, Camberwell Old Cemetery, Canadian Army Medical Corps, Cholera Epidemic, Coronavirus, COVID-19, George Raymond Dallas Moor VC MC and Bar, Julian Royds Gribble VC, Kildonan Presbyterian Cemetery, Médaille d’honneur des épidémies, Niederzwehren Cemetery, Pandemic, Prisoner of War, Victoria Cross, William Leefe Robinson VC, Y Farm Military Farm Cemetery
pferguson | January 18, 2016
16th Battalion C.E.F. Prisoners of War (Part 1) At long last the first installment of Canadian Scottish soldiers captured during the Great War. This work would not have been possible without the tremendous effort of the late Ted Wigney whose work, in recording and publishing (for all) a record of CEF prisoners of war, was a […]
Category: Snapshots of the Great War |
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Tags: 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish), 1915, Amputation, Army Order 193 (1919), Attempting to Escape, Captain B.L. Johnston, Determination, Died of Wounds as Prisoner of War, Escaped, Escaping, Gallant Conduct, Interned in Holland, Larchwood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery (Belgium), Lieutenant F.W. MacDonald, Lieutenant Victor Alexander MacLean MC, Major R.Y. Cory, Mentioned in Despatches, Military Cross, Military Medal, Niederzwehren War Cemetery (Germany), Prisoner of War, Prisoners of War, Released, Released [from captivity], Russian Order of St. Anne 4th Class, Schevenigen, Second Battle of Ypres, Services Rendered in Captivity, Tyne Cot Cemetery (Belgium), Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Belgium)
