pferguson | April 7, 2017
Two Pipers of Canada’s 25th Battalion The 25th Canadian Infantry Battalion, from Nova Scotia, was part of the the 5th Infantry Brigade of the Second Canadian Division. The unit, although not considered a highland battalion, had a pipe band of 12 pipers and 10 drummers. The unit’s March Past was “MacKenzie Highlanders” and their mascot, […]
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Tags: "Robert the Bruce", 1936 Vimy Pilgrimage, 25th Canadian Infantry Battalion, 5th Infantry Brigade, 9 April 1917, Amputation, Bonnie Dundee, Gassed, Machine Gun Fire, Mascots, Nova Scotia, Pipe Band, pipers, Pipes and Drums, Second Canadian Division, Shell Fire, Shell Shock, Vimy Ridge, Walter James Telfer, William Brand, Wounded
pferguson | September 24, 2016
I GOT HIT ON SEPTEMBER 24 Corporal Norman Caldwell (16th Battalion CEF) and his brother Harry Calldwell (67th Battalion CEF) were the nephews of Mr. L.A. Berkeley of Roccabella. A portion of Norman’s letter entitled, Brothers Have Seen Some Heavy Fighting appeared in The Daily Colonist, 7 November 1916, page 10. “I got hit on […]
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Tags: 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish), 1916, 24 September 1916, 67th Battalion CEF (Western Scots), Brothers, Courcelette, Harry Caldwell, Military Medal, Norman Caldwell, Somme, Thiepval, Wounded
pferguson | June 5, 2016
Sergeant William Garner Croix de Guerre avec Etoile De Bronze (France) On 6 June 1944 (D day) at COURSEULLES-sur-MER, France, K57764 Sergeant William GARNER, medical Sergeant 1st Battalion Canadian Scottish Regiment, landed with his unit on the beach amid heavy mortar and machine gun fire. Completely disregarding his own safety he began immediately to treat […]
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Tags: 6 June 1944, Beach, Canadian Scottish Regiment, D-Day, Fatalities, French Croix de Guerre, L.C.A., Landing Craft Assault, Regimental Aid Post, Second World War, Sergeant William Garner, Stretcher Bearers, Wounded
pferguson | June 7, 2015
16th Soldiers in Blighty I enjoy taking the time to wander through contemporary publications that relate to the Great War. As always you never really know what you will find…and often amongst the many gems there is a bonus article or image specific to our film’s C.E.F. battalion of interest – the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish). […]
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Tags: 16th Battalion C.E.F., 17th Nova Scotia Higland Reserve Battalion, Canadian Scottish, Folkestone (England), Great War, Invalided, J. Weston & Son (England), Sandling Camp (England), Shorncliffe (England), Wounded
pferguson | August 3, 2014
An Online Exhibit for Every Day of the Great War Marking 100 Years Distant Yesterday Theirs’ was a distant yesterday. These men and women who joined the campaign that took them to far and distant places. Towns and villages that would become all too familiar to other towns and villages as a timeline of chaos […]
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Tags: Darkness, Family, Great War, Home, Letters, Light, Machine Guns, Menin Gate, Nurses, Online Exhibit, Poperinghe, Postcards, Shrapnel, Somme, Storytelling, Wounded