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...
Over one hundred Special Operations F Section agents were killed and they were primarily executed at Concentration Camps, how are they commemorated? Most both Men and Women are named on...
The Jack Kipling identification has been getting a lot of coverage lately. It appears that after only 24 years, the doubters have conceded that the original report from 1992 was,...
PRESENTATIONS 12:30: News items, Show a few favorite historical pieces, general history chit chat; 1:00: Frank Townson will give a presentation on his recent trip to Juno Beach in Normandy;...
PRESENTATIONS (subject to variations): 12:30pm Ed Storey will present on Boer War artifacts from his collection, 13:00hrs Terry Hunter will present on Rifles of the Boer War, 13:30hrs Norm will...
HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM NORM CHRISTIE & CEF BOOKS! IT IS 2025! YIKES! ARE YOU READY TO SAVE OUR HISTORY? NEXT EVENT: Happy New Year and More! LOCATION: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 314,...