pferguson | July 31, 2022
St. George’s Memorial Church It is one of many places to commemorate the Great War. Filled with memorials to soldiers, regiments and associaitons. President Sir John French, Earl of Ypres and the president of The Ypres League led the appeal. The town of Ypres (Ieper) gifted the property and on 24 July 1927 Lord Herbert […]
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Tags: Menin Gate Memorial, Reverend Ray Jones, Sir John French, St. George's Memorial Church, Ypres, Ypres League
pferguson | March 29, 2022
Presence and Present Ypres (Ieper) one of my favorite places to visit, not only as the small city is paramount to many of my immediate interests of the Great War, but now having visited often I simply like the town. The square with its shops for browsing, grazing and watering, the canal and the ramparts, […]
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Tags: Annie Eliza Bardolph Buchanan, Art, Arthur Alleyne Kingsley Conan Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, Artists, Australian War Memorial, Cornfields, Ieper, James Buchanan (1st Baron Woolavington), John Kipling, Menin Gate at Midnight, Remembrance, Rudyard Kipling, Scotch Whiskey, Spiritualism, Whiskey, Will Langstaff, Ypres
pferguson | April 15, 2020
Carved into the Lessons from History On 14 April 2020 the Daily Express presented the suggestion, made by Mr. Terence McIlroy, that in recognition of the bravery of the British National Health Service (NHS), during the Covid-19 pandemic, that the organization could be presented with the honorific award of the George Medal. Although the article […]
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Tags: COVID-19, Croix de Guerre (France), Daily Express, Distinguished Service Cross, Dunkirk, George Cross, George Medal, In Flanders Fields Museum, Malta, Medal of Honour (France), Military Cross, National Health Service, Pandemic, Royal Ulster Constabulary, Terence McIlroy, Verdun, Ypres
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 | October 28, 2019
Reminders After the war…each day’s new peace is punctuated by the craggy and weighted fragments of former ambition and rubble. Once these were buildings…these were homes. The exclamations, and pauses, the commas, the full stops of life. With each day a small section of peace is renewed as foundation is revealed…the rebuilding continues. Brick by […]
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Tags: British War Graves Commission, Church Army, Dark, Evil, Family, Ieper, Light, Love, Pilgrims, Rebuilding, Sacred, Salvation Army, St. Barnabas, YMCA, Ypres