CEFBooks enjoys a major milestone
YES IT’S TRUE! Believe it or not CEF BOOKS is celebrating it’s 20th Anniversary. For those who remember the first Editions in 1996 I am sorry but we are all......
31 March, 2016 No comment
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A few announcements from Norm Christie & CEF Books;
Some CWGC Statistics:
Forgotten Septembers. We should not allow others to dismiss Their Sacrifice. Our Canadian Dead;
September 1916, 4,781;
September 1918, 4,744;
September 1944, 2,373.
Some Countries with CEF Canadian Dead;
France 39,710;
Belgium 14,043;
Canada 6,841;
United Kingdom 3,895;
St. Lucia 5.
Unusual Canadian Graves: Prescott (Sandy Hill) Cemetery, Ontario, Lieutenant William F. N. Sharpe, Royal Flying Corps, Sect 10, Block 5, Lot 4, Grave B. He went Overseas with the 1st Contingent in 1914 as one of only two Canadian airmen. He was killed in a flying accident February 4, 1915 in England. He was Canada’s first airman to die in war. After his death he disappears from the CWGC records. Decades later I saw a Genealogical newsletter on display at a Chinese restaurant in Prescott and on the cover was The Burial of Lieutenant Sharpe! Finally he could be added to the Records. His family had brought him Home. Lest we forget.
Stay tuned: Norm will be at the Ottawa Militaria Show, Saturday, October 25, Sportsplex, Woodroffe Raod, Ottawa. Details to follow.
Requests for stuff: We have a large number of original CEF and Great War items; ephemera, photos, documents, postcards, relics, and medals. If you need something drop us a line.
Book Recommendation: Holocaust Hero; The Life and times of Rudolph Vrba by Alan Twigg, Firefly, 2025. Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg declared there were only two great Holocaust heroes — the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Mordechai Anielewicz) and Rudolf Vrba. After he escaped from Auschwitz-Birkenau in April of 1944, Vrba and his co-escapee Alfréd Wetzler co-authored the Vrba-Wetzler Report, credited with saving 200,000 Hungarian Jews. “No other single act in the Second World War,” according to World War II historian Sir Martin Gilbert, “saved so many Jews from the fate that Hitler and the SS had determined for them.” A great Canadian hero.
Last Chance: End of the line; many titles and DVDs in our store are down to only a few copies, and once gone we will not be reprinting. If you are short of a few guide books or classic memoirs better order now! Order $100 and get a free T-Shirt! Three designs to choose from – once your $100+ order is placed, we will reach out to you to see which you’d like!
