pferguson | July 8, 2018
Near to an ending? The passing days of centenary have provided several opportunities to pause and think upon celebration, commemoration, reconciliation. Now near to the end, those of us who have chosen to venture into the marshes of conflict must come to terms with 100 years plus one, plus two and so on. Although centenaries […]
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Tags: 8 August 1918 - 11 November 1918, Abancourt (France), Alexander Picton Brereton VC, Amiens (France), Arras (France), Arras-Cambrai Road (France), Arthur George Knight VC, Bar (Second Award), Bellenden Seymour Hutcheson VC MC, Blecourt (France), Boiry-Becquerelle (France), Bourlon Wood (France), Cagnicourt (France), Cambrai (France), Canada's 100 Days, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canal de L’Escaut (France), Charles Smith Rutherford VC MC MM, Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney VC DCM MM, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG), Coulson Norman Mitchell VC MC, Cyrus Wesley Peck VC DSO and Bar, Demuin (France), Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM), Distinguished Service Order (DSO), Dury – Arras Sector (France), Frederick George Coppins VC, Fresnes-Rouvroy Line (France), George Fraser Kerr VC MC and Bar MM, Graham Thomson Lyall VC, Hallu (France), Hangard Wood (France), Harry Garnet Bedford Miner VC, Hatchet Woods (France), Henry (Harry) Garnet Bedford Miner VC, Herman James Good VC, Hugh Cairns VC DCM, Inscriptions, James Edward Tait VC MC, Jean Baptiste Arthur Brillant VC MC, John Bernard Croak VC, John Francis Young VC, John MacGregor VC MC and Bar DCM, Meharicourt (France), Military Cross (MC), Military Medal (MM), Milton Fowler Gregg VC MC and Bar, MM, Monchy (France), Neuville St. Remy (France), Parvillers (France), Parvillers-le-Quesnoy (France), Raphael Louis Zengel VC MM, Rifle Wood (France), Robert Spall VC, Samuel Lewis Honey VC DCM MM, Thomas Fasti Dinesen VC, Valenciennes (France) Marley (France), Victoria Cross, Villers-les-Cagnicourt (France), Vis-en-Artois (France), Wallace Lloyd Algie VC, Walter Leigh Rayfield VC, Warvillers (France), William Henry Metcalf VC MM and Bar, William Hew Clark-Kennedy VC CMG DSO and Bar, William Merrifield VC MM
pferguson | April 23, 2018
St. George’s Day – Zeebrugge Day A hundred years ago this day…on St. George’s Day (sometimes known as Zeebrugge Day)…23 April 1918, 1,700 British sailors and marines took part in the raid on the port of Zeebrugge, Belgium. Of the 75 vessels used in the attack some are better known than others including HMS Vindictive […]
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Tags: 23 April 1918, Albert Edward McKenzie VC, Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter VC, Arthur Leyland Harrison VC, Distinguished Service ORder, Dover (England), Edward Bamford VC, George Nicholson Bradford VC, HM Motor Launch 282, HM Submarine C3, HMS Vindictive, Meritorious Service Medal, Mersey Ferries, Mole at Zeebrugge, Norman Augustus Finch VC MSM, Percy Thompson Dean VC, Posthumous Award, Raid on Zeebrugge, Richard Douglas Sandford VC, Royal Marine Artillery, Royal Marine Light Infantry, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Royal Navy, Selected by Ballot, SS Daffodil, SS Iris, SS Royal Daffodil, SS Royal Iris, St. George's Day, Victoria Cross, Zeebrugge (Belgium), Zeebrugge Bell, Zeebrugge Day
pferguson | August 17, 2017
For Freedom and Honour…For Valour There is a round bronze disc about 5″ across…Britannia with a lion, a son’s or daughter’s name, and the words “HE [or SHE] DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR. One Vancouver, B.C. family to receive a Great War Memorial Plaque was the family of Captain Cecil Mack Merritt, a former officer […]
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Tags: 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish), 19 August 1942, 23 April 1915, 72nd Regiment (Seaforth Highlanders of Canada), Cecil Mack Merritt, Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt, Dieppe Raid, Fathers, For Freedom and Honour, For Valour, George Randolph Pearkes, Memorial Cross, Memorial Plaque, Mentioned in Despatches, Pourville, Pourville (France), Saskatchewan Regiment, Sons, St. Julien (Belgium), Victoria Cross
pferguson | April 21, 2017
The Australian Coronation Contingent Eighty years ago an Australian contingent of 100 soldiers, 25 sailors and 25 airmen traveled to the United Kingdom for the Coronation of King George VI, 12 May 1937. One of the contingent’s tasks was to return the remains of British soldier, Arthur Evans VC who died in Sydney Australia 1 […]
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Tags: 25 April 1937, ANZAC Day (25 April), Arthur Evans (AKA Walter Simpson), Arthur Percival Sullivan VC, Arthur Percival Sullivan VC Plaque, Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), Australian Coronation Contingent, Canon P.E. James, Coronation, Distinguished Conduct Medal, General Sir Ian Hamilton, General Sir William Birdwood, King George VI, London (England), Remembrance, St. Paul's ANZAC Day Commemorative Service, St. Paul's Cathedral, The Cenotaph (Whitehall), Victoria Cross, Wellington Barracks
pferguson | April 8, 2017
W.J. Milne 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish) William Milne came to Canada in 1910 from his native Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland settling near Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan where he worked as a farmer. On 11 September 1915 Milne joined the 46th Canadian Infantry Battalion but transferred on 16 June 1916 to the 16th Canadian Infantry Battalion (Canadian […]
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