pferguson | August 31, 2023
Delicate Hope Its been a long while…our last visit to the Somme. This day we end our Somme series (for the time being)…no doubt there will be a return. The last actual walk was August 2018 – a drive from Ypres to the Somme with friends and family…Rosemary…at long last has learned why this ground […]
Category: Our Thoughts, Remember Them Well |
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Tags: Conflict, Mill Road, Peace, Somme
pferguson | June 30, 2023
The Mines On the first day of the Battle of the Somme (1 July 1916), 19 mines were detonated. Eight large and eleven smaller charges prepared by tunneling units of the British Army exploded on the German frontline. Both the mines at Lochnagar (detonated at 7:28 AM) and Hawthorn Ridge (detonated at 7:20 AM) were, […]
Category: Snapshots of the Great War |
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Tags: 1 July 1916, Film, Geoffrey Malins, Hawthorn Ridge Crater, John McDowell, Lochnagar Crater, Mines, Preservation, Richard Dunning, Somme, Tunnelling
pferguson | September 3, 2018
Friends are good on the day of battle Located near to Y Ravine, within the present day Newfoundland Park, the 51st Division Memorial commemorates their success during the Battle of the Ancre 13 November 1916. The memorial project was aided by the good work of Lieutenant Colonel Nangle, the former Roman Catholic padre of the […]
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Tags: 11 November 1918, 13 November 1916, 21 March 1918, 28 September 1924, 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 51st (Highland) Division Memorial, 51st Highland Division, Armistice, Battle of the Ancre, Beaumont-Hamel, Blitz, Bob Rowan, Charles Ross Paulin, Ferdinand Jean Marie Foch, Friends are good on the day of battle, Gaelic, George Henry Paulin, Glasgow Highlanders (1/9 Highland Light Infantry), LA A' BHLAIR S MATH NA CAIRDEAN, March Offensive, Memorialization, Memorials, Newfoundland Park, P. Sinclair, pipers, Somme, Thomas Matthew Mary Nangle, Treaty of Versailles, Y Ravine
pferguson | August 9, 2018
Thread Five The steady crunch of loose gravel beneath our feet announces our arrival to the names recorded here. As we move across from stone to grass the silence is heartfelt…it is respect. A mist upon the horizon, silhouettes at the Stone of Remembrance…the shock of looking upon the Thiepval Memorial for the first time. […]
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Tags: Remembrance, Somme, Stone of Remembrance, Thiepval Memorial
pferguson | December 23, 2017
Greetings Christmas and New Year I can only imagine a group of soldiers at Christmas with their thoughts of home. Glasgow, Aberdeen, Kirkcaldy, Dundee, Kilmarnock, Falkirk, Peebles and others. Though at home they may rise in the morning to different landscapes they are brothers in this trench, this town, this Scotland. To soldiers near and far, […]
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Tags: Armentières, Arras, Christmas, Festubert, Film History, I’m Dreaming of Home, Joyeux Noël, Loos, Lyrics, New Year, Scottish Soldier, Scottish Soldiers, Somme, Vimy, Ypres