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By Jakealoo on February 15, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

Update: CEF Service File Estimates Still on Target

In late December I published an article with My Estimate of when your CEF Service File will be Digitized. Library and Archives Canada has posted two updates since that time, including one […]

By Jakealoo on February 8, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

Update: Valcartier 1914

The number of officers identified in the Valcartier panoramic photograph has doubled thanks to the keen eye of Matt Barrett, a historian, animator and caricaturist. Matt publishes Patriots, Crooks and Safety-Firsters, an […]

By Jakealoo on February 1, 2016 • ( 2 Comments )

Digging out on the Home Front

This week marks the 100th anniversary of a snowstorm that paralyzed Victoria BC in the first week of February 1916. The snow began falling on the 1st of the month and […]

By Jakealoo on January 25, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

Crowdsource: Valcartier 1914

First World War panoramic photographs are not unusual but this image, captured at Valcartier Camp at the end of August 1914, is exceptional in both its size and subject matter. In what […]

By Jakealoo on January 17, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

Who Goes There? Hospital Blues in Walthamstow, 1916

Back in 1911 I had family living on Waverley Road in Walthamstow and nearly a century later I remember riding the Victoria line to its northernmost stop to visit the area […]

By Jakealoo on January 10, 2016 • ( 2 Comments )

Paying Respect: a Pilgrimage to France and Belgium in 1926

In the aftermath of the Great War many families made a pilgrimage to the battlefields and cemeteries of France and Belgium, including the family of Rev. A.P. Gower-Rees, a former Deputy Assistant Chaplain-General and an out-spoken […]

By Jakealoo on January 2, 2016 • ( 1 Comment )

Remembering Rev. A.P. Gower-Rees MC: the “Football Parson”

Rev. Albert Phillip Gower-Rees MC served his God, his King and his parishioners on two continents and through two world wars. Born in Carmarthen in 1880 Albert was a keen sportsman […]

By Jakealoo on December 29, 2015 • ( 1 Comment )

My Estimate of when your CEF Service File will be Digitized

The digitization of Canadian First World War Services Files by Library and Archives Canada is the Government’s most significant contribution to the centenary of the First World War.  The work began in the […]

By Jakealoo on December 19, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )

Made-to-order: Valentine’s Post-War Christmas Dinner

While most Officers did their best to provide their men with a filling Christmas dinner there was no substitute for family and a home-cooked meal. In this article I’m featuring two letters […]

By Jakealoo on December 6, 2015 • ( 10 Comments )

Christmas at the Front – Merry Xmas from Giessen Dec. 1915

As a Prisoner of War in the Giessen P.O.W. camp Sergeant Thomas Bramah Diplock was nearly 300 miles behind enemy lines when he posted this Christmas card 100 years ago. It was […]

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