pferguson | April 30, 2022
Mother…Film… It takes a while…the penny drops…the pictures produce the synapses (the passing of messages to communicate). Having returned to 2005 I find my file of images for the 9.2 inch dazzle painted “gun” at the Imperial War Museum. Surely, at the time, I will do something with these? And surely I did…mind 17 years […]
Category: Snapshots of the Great War |
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Tags: Aeroscope Camera, Clarendon Film Company, Edward Tong, Film History, Garrick Film Company, Gaumont Film Company, Geoffrey Malins, Hawthorn Ridge, How I Filmed the War, Howitzer, Imperial War Museum, John McDowell, Kinematograph Manufacturers Association, Medal of the Order of the British Empire, Mother, The Battle of the Somme, The British and Colonial Film Company
pferguson | February 27, 2022
1915 and the 16th Canadian Infantry Battalion Distinguished Service Order Major Gilbert Godson-Godson DSO London Gazette: 22 June 1915 Awarded on the occasion of His Majesty’s Birthday. No citation. Occupation: City of Vancouver. Department Head. Prior service: Second Boer War (Corps of Guides and South African Constabulary. Awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal and Mentioned in […]
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Tags: 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish), 1915, Alfred William Minchin, Bernard Charles Lunn, Cecil Mack Merritt, Frank Morison, Gerald Coussmaker Heath, Gilbert Godson-Godson, Honours and Awards, John Dougall, John William Bizley, La Quinque Rue Orchard, Robert Gilmour Edwards Leckie, St. Julien (Belgium), Victor Alexander MacLean
pferguson | November 11, 2021
Private George Edwin Ellison L/12643 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers Son of James W. and Mary Ellison, George Ellison was born in York and raised in Leeds where today a memorial to him has been placed at Leeds Railway Station. The commemorative plaque, normally blue in colour, is olive green representing the British soldier uniform of […]
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Tags: 11 November 1918, 309 Fatalities, 46th Canadian Infantry Battalion, 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, 994, Armistice, Chatham Naval Memorial, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Frederick Thomas Ellison, George Edwin Ellison, George Lawrence Prince, H.M. Trawler Towhee, John Parr, King George V, Known unto God, Middlesex Regiment, Silent Witnesses, St. Symphorien Military Cemetery, The King's Pilgrimage
pferguson | November 10, 2021
Private Harry Wilkinson 8850 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers Eternal Rest Give to Him O Lord and Let Perpetual Light Shine Upon Him…Harry Wilkinson…whose body was found in a Flanders field in 2000. Previously commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Harry now rests at Prowse Point Military Cemetery, Belgium, grave 1.A.7. along with 242 burials of his comrades. […]
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Tags: 10 November 1914, 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers, Chaplain Ray Jones, Charles Bertie Prowse, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Family, Harry Wilkinson, Identity Discs, Ploegsteert War Memorial, Prowse Point Military Cemetery, Re-Burial, Richard Lancaster, St. George's Memorial Chapel (Ypres), Warneton
pferguson | November 9, 2021
Private Thomas Cordner 11254 Royal Irish Fusiliers We return to Strand Military Cemetery this day with the story of Thomas Cordner, a soldier who lost his life in attempting to save the life of his friend, Private William Hanvey. This is the tale of three Portadown men and sister Thomas’ sister Christina. Private Cordner’s story appears […]
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Tags: 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers, 9 November 1914, Christina Cordner, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Edward Burns, Family, Mementos, Pilgrimage, Portadown, Portadown (Ireland), Royal Irish Fusiliers, Seagoe Parish, Soldier Comforts, Soldier Helpers, Strand Military Cemetery, Thomas Cordner, William Hanvey
