pferguson | November 6, 2018
One suggestion…one step…and a million more followed Sometimes when sifting through the research and images, recollections and recall, I ask myself what were the origins of a specific project? Where did it all begin? The hours of enjoyment wandering about paths and trails, the gentle cadence through a library’s stacks, the scrambling through newspapers and […]
Category: Remember Them Well |
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Tags: 7th Battalion CEF, Belgium Remembered in British Columbia, Christ Church Cathedral (Victoria), Dr. Alan Gowans, Frederick Walter Nation, Memorial Architecture, Memorial Museum Passchendaele, Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm), Ross Bay Cemetery, University of Victoria, Zillebeke, Zonnebeke
pferguson | June 10, 2018
Someday Here We Will Meet Again …a while ago I have stood here many times, brought others to you and wondered who you are…and yet for all the time that has passed – today you have spoken. Who are you Piper John MacLeod? …this day I have walked this place of memory since the late […]
Category: Pipers of War, Remember Them Well |
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Tags: 102nd Battalion (North British Columbians), 67th Battalion CEF (Western Scots), Balallan, Bushey Park (England), Empress Hotel, Harry Hardy, Illness, Isle of Lewis, James C. Hanna, John Weightman Warden DSO, King Edward Hotel, King's Canadian Red Cross Hospital, Lewis Chess Pieces, Loyal Lewis Roll of Honour, Mark Knopfler, Passchendaele, Piper John MacLeod, Piper Major Billy Wishart, Piper to the End, pipers, Private C. Haggerty, Private H. Clear, Private H.M. Henderson, Private J. Grant, Private J. Robinson, Private S. Trickett, Resthaven Hospital (Sidney), Ross Bay Cemetery, Stornoway, Victoria BC, Victoria Military Hospital (Esquimalt)
