B.C. is the best for ghost towns. Bustling, vibrant towns come out of nowhere when the Ore is found and then seem to vanish just as quick. I found two...
Most died of wounds or disease but three were killed in action. George Price we all know but the other two were members of the 16th Brigade, CFA and they...
In November 1941 a Force of 2,000 Canadians were sent to the British Colony of Hong Kong. Little did they know it but It was a hopeless assignment that the...
We think of this as equality of rank or social class but it extends beyond to the treatment of Men executed for crimes, principally murder. Six Canadians were executed for...
DIEPPE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, E.10. Private Kenneth J. Ingram was 20 when he was killed with the Royal Regiment of Canada at Dieppe, August 19, 1942. Two years later on August...
Keep in mind Canada had 40% more troops Overseas than did the Australian Imperial Force. (Although the AIF had 5 Infantry Divisions and the CEF was only 4.) 1915: Canada 4,923; Australia...
Charles Guy Destrube and Paul Jean Destube, Serre Road Cemetery, IV.C.2. Both were serving with the 22nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers and were killed February 17, 1917. Sons of Ernest &...
In the postwar period the Imperial War Graves Commission undertook the massive job of making the war cemeteries, clearing the battlefields and undertaking a near impossible task of personalizing each...
Twenty-five years after I purchase this oval of an unknown CEF soldier an obscure Youtube video identified his photo. He is 342955 Gunner Harvey Edward Harry Brouse of Kingston, 2nd...
In 1991 I received a tangled trail of documents regarding a Spitfire pilot who crashed at Boulogne in December 1944 and who oddly had no identified grave. It appeared the...