pferguson | March 14, 2020
It has occurred, an unwanted centenary Following commemorations marking the days and events of the Great War Centenary, we now face the reappearance of an unwelcome 2020 visitor – a global pandemic. Mimicking the timing of the influenza pandemic of 1918 – 1920 we now have Coronavirus or COVID-19. The new virus first appeared towards […]
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Tags: Alan Arnett McLeod VC, Albert Edward McKenzie VC, All Saint’s Churchyard Extension, Camberwell Old Cemetery, Canadian Army Medical Corps, Cholera Epidemic, Coronavirus, COVID-19, George Raymond Dallas Moor VC MC and Bar, Julian Royds Gribble VC, Kildonan Presbyterian Cemetery, Médaille d’honneur des épidémies, Niederzwehren Cemetery, Pandemic, Prisoner of War, Victoria Cross, William Leefe Robinson VC, Y Farm Military Farm Cemetery
pferguson | December 24, 2018
Spiritual and Immediate Care of Their Soldier Flock There is with each step wandering fields of conflict encounters with a difficult past. Every visit has its encounters, perhaps a landmark rebuilt, a crater filled with water, a reused bit of rail, a bench, memorial, cemetery, statue, a fragment, a trace, an energy. Each place offers […]
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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
