Video: Remember Them All
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice I’ve created a three and a half minute video as a tribute to those who persevered through more than four […]
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 […]
Remembrance Articles
Of the nearly three hundred articles on this blog the majority are dedicated to remembering those who served their country in a time of war. The soldiers, sailors and airmen […]
Serene and Secluded: Tofino’s Morpheus Island Cemetery
Nestled in Clayoquot Sound a short distance away from the small community of Tofino lies Morpheus Island, the final resting place of twenty-two¹ west coast pioneers, including three soldiers of […]
Remembering Private Rene Palmer, 87th Battalion CEF
Rene Joseph Jacob Palmer (Palmen) was born in Heerlen, Netherlands on January 7, 1890 and immigrated to Canada in 1909. He enlisted with the 132nd Battalion in Chatham, NB on […]
Remembering Two Saanich Soldiers KIA at Passchendaele 100 Years Ago Today
On November 10 1917 two soldiers from Saanich British Columbia, Sgt Frank Willey M.M. and L/Cpl Frank Joseph Webb, were killed in the final assault on Passchendaele ridge. They were both […]
Roads to Remembrance: to Passchendaele by Bike
To commemorate Remembrance Day this year I’ll be remembering two Canadian soldiers on the 100th Anniversary of their deaths. They represent a tiny fraction of the 15,654 Canadians who died […]
100 Years Ago Today: Remembering Lt. G. G. May
Lt. George Geoffrey May was my grandfather’s first cousin and it was exactly 100 years ago today that he lost his life in the attack on Vimy Ridge. George, a law […]
Review: A Group Photograph by Andrew Tatham
First World War group photos have always fascinated me and over the years I’ve featured quite a number on this site. Sometimes a reader helps to identify an individual whose story […]
Dugout fire claims the life of L/Cpl Josiah Cleator, C.E.
The Western Front was no stranger to the macabre but surely the fate of Lance-Corporal Josiah Cleator was particularly cruel. Creature comforts were in short-supply in the trenches and soldiers often […]
Doing Our Bit 