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 | December 1, 2018
Discussions around the tables… …and so it is December…families…some partly reunited…peace on earth…discussions around the tables and hearths, turn from thoughts of yesterday and tomorrow…somehow today is recognized as a turn away from present conversations…Well today is a new day..but conversations soon pick up from whence they start. The Armistice…soon to be eclipsed by interactions […]
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Tags: Armistice, Hall of Mirrors, Home, Hôtel des Réservoirs, Hôtel Trianon Palace, Paris, Quai d'Orsay (Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Paris), Treaty of Versailles (28 June 1919), Versailles
pferguson | November 11, 2018
…I’ll let it in This day, 11 November 2018…a hundred years has passed and in my time I have hoped to bring to you…connection. These words have followed my path as I have followed the trails of the Great War from the June heat of Gallipoli to the cold gusts of a November Western Front. […]
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Tags: 11 November 2018, Armistice, Bon Iver, Centenary, Connection, Let it in, Light, To the light of the morning, Understanding, Voice
pferguson | November 5, 2018
Great War Armistice at 100 Soon the day of the Great War Armistice will turn 100 – 11 November 2018. Some will travel at this time to London, the Somme, the Salient. Others will remain at home in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, wherever. The ceremonies will be well attended…special events…special art installations such as Weeping […]
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Tags: 11 November 1918, 908 Fatalities, Armistice, Belgium, Canada, Circumstances of Death, Died of Wounds, Diphtheria, Drafted Men, England, France, Imperial War Museum, In Memoriam, Inflammation of the Brain, Influenza, Insanity, Killed in Action, Last Soldiers Killed Great War All Nations, Matilda Landsky, Military Service Act 1917, Paralysis, Pneumonia, Remembrance, Russia, Scotland, Tuberculosis, United Kingdom
pferguson | November 3, 2018
The Great War Poets: The Known and Unknown Brooke, Sassoon, Owen, Ledwidge, Graves, Blunden, McCrae, Rosenberg, Kipling..names of some of the Great War’s many poets. Who has not read a poem of the Great War?…In Flanders Fields the poppies blow…Some better known than others. Some poets famous for a body of work; others for a […]
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Tags: 11 November 1916, 11 November 1918, 47th Battalion CEF, And you are there with him, Anthem for Doomed Youth, Armistice, Carrie Ayres, Chilliwack, Church Bells, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Craiglockhart, Edith Ayres, Francis Edward Ledwidge, Harry Ayres, Joy-Bells, Poetry, Poets, Siegfried Sassoon, Songs of Peace, Susan Owen, To common folks and kings, Wilfred Own