pferguson | November 11, 2020
2020-11-11 My dear soldier friend, Again, I see you upon the high ground ever watchful. Each year we visit. Your sharp-eyed gaze has again passed across these horizons a hundred tens of thousands of times…Your watch… infinite…embedded within you, all that have passed, all here this day and all you know who will follow…this due…to […]
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pferguson | September 26, 2016
Ypres Day Two of Five Today it is a return to Ploegsteert and as we lumber our way across the roadway towards the Rijselpoort, the cobbles remind us every few seconds that we are not quite at our peak for the day. Heading south we successfully navigate our way in approxiamately an hour to Ploegseert Church. […]
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Tags: 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish), 7th Battalion CEF (1st BC Regiment), Arthur Currie K.C.M.G. K.C.B., Bedford House Cemetery, Canadian Scottish, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Great War, Herbert Beaumont Boggs, High Ground, Mesen, Ploegsteert, Ploegsteert Church, Ploegsteert Churchyard Cemetery, Rijselpoort, Somewhere in Belgium, Thomas Sutton, Victoria War Memorial, Wijschate, Ypres, Ypres Salient 2016