August 2015 – Doing Our Bit

Month: August 2015

By Jakealoo on August 17, 2015 ( Leave a comment )

Remembering Lt. John Keith Bousfield, Holzminden P.O.W.

Victoria BC has been home to expatriates from across the Empire since it’s earliest days. Despite knowing this I must admit I was nonetheless surprised to discover that an officer, one of 29 […]

By Jakealoo on August 3, 2015 ( 1 Comment )

Who Goes There? Unknown Trench Poet pens “O Canada!”

On the weekend I acquired a small and curious collection of First World War ephemera that included a handful of poems written by at least two different soldiers. One of these […]