pferguson | June 29, 2024
WWI Exhibition with WW2 Story In December 2015 I made my way through the new First World War galleries at the Imperial War Museum, London. At the time, I was ingrained with all that was new to see. However after my wander, I felt I preferred the earlier exhibit to this one but…after a few […]
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Tags: 31 January 1941, Exhibitions, HMS Hercules, Imperial War Museum, London Blitz, Remembrance
pferguson | March 29, 2022
Presence and Present Ypres (Ieper) one of my favorite places to visit, not only as the small city is paramount to many of my immediate interests of the Great War, but now having visited often I simply like the town. The square with its shops for browsing, grazing and watering, the canal and the ramparts, […]
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Tags: Annie Eliza Bardolph Buchanan, Art, Arthur Alleyne Kingsley Conan Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, Artists, Australian War Memorial, Cornfields, Ieper, James Buchanan (1st Baron Woolavington), John Kipling, Menin Gate at Midnight, Remembrance, Rudyard Kipling, Scotch Whiskey, Spiritualism, Whiskey, Will Langstaff, Ypres
pferguson | November 11, 2021
The day seems to bring few words and then… I slip upon mon tete my hat from Juno Beach, place the camera bag over my shoulder and adjust my poppy. It is time to take up the trail. I start the walk towards the memorial. This day it wants to rain…it wants the cold…elements I […]
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Tags: 11 November 2021, And No Birds Sang, Flypast, Poppies, Remembrance, Remembrance Day, Wreaths
pferguson | May 3, 2020
Remembered A solitary grass and flower muncher ambles across the road from one yard to the next. Unperturbed by the white painted fence it approaches and without the leaping gait of a high jumper, this fleet of foot one, simply springs from a standing position across the obstacle. Then turning its head, to look at […]
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Tags: 3 May 1917, 31st Canadian Infantry Battalion, COVID-19, Family, Fresnoy, Hazel Dougan (nee Berget), Ole Berget, Remembrance, Vimy Memorial
pferguson | November 10, 2019
One Day Soon… There is another place to visit, following in the footsteps of Professor John Macnaughton’s walk to his son’s grave at Dickebusch New Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Found within the pages of the Canada Illustrated Weekly, a letter of thanks to St. Barnabas Hostels, a brief note of gratitude…. Will you kindly allow […]
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Tags: 24th Canadian Infantry Battalion, Canadian Virtual War Memorial, Dickebusch New Military Cemetery, Empire Club of Canada, Gommecourt British Cemetery, Ian Robert Reekie Macnaughton, John Macnaughton, Kate Palmer, Kate Palmer's Walk, Menin Gate, Remembrance, Richard Lennard Hoare, Roy Palmer, St. Barnabas Hostels, Villers Station Cemetery, Woods Military Cemetery, Ypres Salient