pferguson | November 10, 2019
One Day Soon… There is another place to visit, following in the footsteps of Professor John Macnaughton’s walk to his son’s grave at Dickebusch New Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Found within the pages of the Canada Illustrated Weekly, a letter of thanks to St. Barnabas Hostels, a brief note of gratitude…. Will you kindly allow […]
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Tags: 24th Canadian Infantry Battalion, Canadian Virtual War Memorial, Dickebusch New Military Cemetery, Empire Club of Canada, Gommecourt British Cemetery, Ian Robert Reekie Macnaughton, John Macnaughton, Kate Palmer, Kate Palmer's Walk, Menin Gate, Remembrance, Richard Lennard Hoare, Roy Palmer, St. Barnabas Hostels, Villers Station Cemetery, Woods Military Cemetery, Ypres Salient
pferguson | November 8, 2019
Unsure of our bearings we rode… Observing the horizon I watch familiar church towers on the horizon drift back and forth in perspective. Distant…closer…always to our right or soon to be on our right. The roads meander here amongst the fields of battle and bounty. At times and without warning (no orange pylons here) the […]
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Tags: 29th Welsh Division, 38th Welsh Division We, Langemarck, Memorials, Monmouthshire Regiment, Pilckem Ridge, Red Dragon, Royal Welch Fusiliers, South Wales Borderers, Welch Regiment, Welsh Guards, Welsh Park, Ypres Salient
pferguson | September 19, 2017
For a Thousand Years Each new day here on the Salient brings something new to my being. Though we have seen many of these places before with each new step there is a new experience to feel, a new plain to watch across. Today we have traded four wheels for two, from fossil fuel to foot […]
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Tags: 15th Battalion CEF, 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish), 1st Canadian Division, Churchbells, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Family, For a Thousand Years, Hill 60, Hooge Crater Cemetery, Lady Haig Poppy Cross, Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery, Maple Copse Cemetery, Mont Sorrel, Remembrance, Wreaths, Ypres Salient, Zillebeke Churchyard Cemetery
pferguson | December 1, 2013
Visiting Talbot House 2013 Sometimes it is worthwhile letting some time pass by. It’s an opportunity for better reflection and gathering those thoughts that have laced their way through our day until this moment when at long last it is time to sit down and put virtual type to virtual paper. The most memorable visit […]
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Tags: A Thousand Stars Away, Camalou Tours, Poperinge, Sometimes the Stars, Stars, Talbot House, The Audreys, They See Other Things, Toc H, Tubby Clayton, Ypres Salient