Remembrance Day 2020
In 2015 I wrote about two brothers from Essex, 2nd Lieut. Henry Harry Skelton and 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin Dowell Skelton, both of whom died in the last six weeks of […]
Frontline Salute: Red Gables Hospital Part 2
I’m continuing my tribute to those battling COVID-19 in our hospitals, nursing homes and as first responders by digging through my archives of First World War hospital photographs. This is […]
Frontline Salute: Red Gables Hospital Part 1
I’m continuing my tribute to those battling COVID-19 in our hospitals, nursing homes and as first responders by digging through my archives of First World War hospital photographs. This week […]
Frontline Salute: Abbots Barton V.A.D. Hospital
I’m continuing my tribute to those battling COVID-19 in our hospitals, nursing homes and as first responders by digging through my archives of First World War photographs. This week I”m […]
A Salute to those on the Pandemic Front Line
I can’t begin to count the number of books, articles, and correspondence I’ve read over the past ten years in an attempt to gain insight into the lives of those […]
Mystery Photograph: Do You Recognize this Soldier?
Can you help identify the soldier in this photograph? It was treasured by its original owner and is now in the possession of her granddaughter. All that is known […]
My Family’s Deadly Encounter with ‘The Spanish Lady’ in 1918
Just over 60,000 Canadian servicemen and women died during four years of fighting in the First World War however the death toll from the Spanish Flu pandemic that spread across […]
Update: 1st Canadian Sanitary Section Photograph
I’m pleased to report that a soldier in a photograph I published nearly five years ago has recently been identified by his granddaughter. Private John Hamilton Byrne is sitting on […]
Brantford Ontario Honours Private Thomas S. Shearman
Brantford, Ontario is marking the 100th Anniversary of the Armistice with street-pole banners remembering twenty soldiers who served their country in the First World War. I’m very pleased to report […]
Reunited! Another Diplock P.O.W. Postcard Returns Home
In April 2016 I wrote an article describing how a 1915 Christmas card posted by Sgt. Thomas Diplock from Giessen P.O.W. camp was reunited with his family. That happy outcome […]
Doing Our Bit 