May 2015 – Doing Our Bit

Month: May 2015

By Jakealoo on May 29, 2015 ( Leave a comment )

Remembering Pte Harry Bassett, 3rd Battalion CEF

Inspiring future generations to remember the men and women who endured the most traumatic period in our country’s history must surely be one of the most important aims of the First World War […]

By Jakealoo on May 18, 2015 ( 2 Comments )

Who Goes There? 158th Battalion Regimental Band

This impressive panoramic photograph was donated to the Vernon Museum and Archives by Louise Karlsson, the granddaughter of Private John Grears. “Jack” Grears was born in Whitehaven, Cumberland in 1881 and […]

By Jakealoo on May 9, 2015 ( 1 Comment )

Camp Petawawa

I recently met Stephanie Ann Warner at an event at the BC Archives. She’s created a great blog featuring photographs of her grandfather Harold Monks who, at age 21, emigrated […]

By Jakealoo on May 3, 2015 ( Leave a comment )

100 Years Ago Today: In Flanders Fields

On May 3, 1915 newly promoted Lt-Col. John McCrae penned “In Flanders Fields“, inspired by the death of his good friend Lt. Alexis Helmer. To commemorate the centenary of this […]