pferguson | October 7, 2017
Before and For All Time On a rainy day towards the Somme, we stop at Beaumont-Hamel and Thiepval before heading a short distance to Adanac Military Cemetery, to observe the day at the graveside of Piper James Cleland Richardson VC. Although we have been before, time and time again, our observances here strike a new […]
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Tags: 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish), 9 October 1916, Adanac Military Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel, Piper James Cleland Richardson VC, pipers, Thiepval War Memorial
pferguson | February 25, 2012
Thomas Orde Lawder Wilkinson VC 7th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, La Boiselle, France. July 5, 1916 Born in 1894 at Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England, Thomas Wilkinson came to Canada in 1912, and, prior to the Great War, worked as a surveyor on Vancouver Island and in Burnaby, B.C. He joined the 16th Battalion C.E.F. on […]
Category: Odds & Ends |
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Tags: 16th Battalion C.E.F., La Boiselle, Loyal North Lancashire Regimnet, Machine Gun, Rescue, Sandwick Cairn, Somme Casualties, Thiepval War Memorial, Thomas Orde Lawder Wilkinson, Victoria Cross
