pferguson | November 1, 2021
Gunner J. Foy 11828 4th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery On 17 September 1914 the 4th Siege Battery proceeded to France as part of the British Expeditionary Force being equipped with Howitzers firing 6, 8 0r 9.2 inch shells. Although “Mother” the first prototype 9.2 inch gun was in action 31 October 1914 it is […]
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Tags: 1 November 1914, 4th Siege Battery, Assumption Convent, Charring Cross, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Le Bizet, Le Bizet Military Convent Cemetery, Motor Car Corner, Motor Car Corner Cemetery, Ploegsteert, Royal Garrison Artillery, Strand, Strand Military Cemetery, War Graves
pferguson | October 31, 2021
The Registers We ride, we bike, we walk one road to another through country fields, forest (les bois) and urban centres. Some of the sites are near to our path while others meander off the larger trail. Many are destinations, others we find happenstance. There is always something to learn at each war graves cemetery. […]
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Tags: Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Hedge Row Trench Cemetery, Imperial War Graves Commission, Menin Gate War Memorial, Registers, Visitor's Books, War Graves
pferguson | November 5, 2019
Next-of-kin who wish… HERE LIES Lord Edward B. Seymour, Lord Strathcona’s Horse Died of Wounds 5-12-17 Received in Action 2-12-17. Hand-written, black painted words and dates, upon a once white painted wooden cross, held by Holy Trinity Church, Arrow, Warwickshire. The cross, anchored to the wall above a decorative brass plaque also in Lord Seymour’s […]
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Tags: Albert Leslie Coote, Chilliwack, Christ Church Cathedral, Edith Frances Chambers, Edward Chandos Elliot Chambers, Frederick Despard Pemberton, Graves Registration Unit, Imperial War Graves Commission, Imperial War Museum, Joshua Strong, Lord Edward Beauchamp Seymour, National Army Museum, R.E.E. Chambers, Richard Arthur Henderson, Richard Edward Elliot Chambers, War Graves
pferguson | November 1, 2019
Canadian War Graves Detachment, Ypres To the innermost heart of their own land they are known As the stars are known to the Night (For the Fallen, Laurence Binyon, mid-September 1914) We are the dead…short days ago… And so they came – the pilgrims. With war’s end some of those left to remember arrived in […]
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Tags: 13th Battalion CEF (Royal Highlanders), Boulevard Porte de Menin, Canada Garage, Canadian Red Cross, Canadian War Graves Detachment, Church Army, For the Fallen, Henry Howard Chanter, In Flanders Fields, Laurence Binyon, Pilgrims, Salvation Army, St. Barnabas, War Graves, Y.M.C.A., Ypres
pferguson | November 8, 2017
The Roar and the Whisper So many lives to remember. Those who did not return and those who survived. Those who walk each day with the reminders of someone. These reminders not shadows, but real events, real lives, husbands and wives, sons and daughters, parents, family, friends and lovers. We see their faces every day, […]
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Tags: Airborne Memorial (Oosterbeek - Netherlands), Canadian Scottish Regiment, Daughters, Family, Film History, Friends, Great War, Hedgerow Cemetery (Belgium), Husbands, Lovers, Memorial Bench, Notting Hill, Parents, Remembrance, Sons, St. Eloi Crater (Belgium), War Graves, War Memorials, WIves, World War Two