Please enjoy these links to stories related to the Army located in our Blog.
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Gen. Currie Meets Last Casualty |
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A Commanding officer of the Elgin Regiment introduces General Currie to the last casualty – it did not go well.
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Blood – Gift of Life |
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Jennings_Jack Oke_Frank |
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1st Para Brigade Calling Second Army Come In Second Army |
Copley, Signaler Stanley
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Signaler with the 1st Paras at Arnhem, the Bridge Too Far and thereafter a POW at Stalag IX-B
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Billet Home of Heroine |
Crowley_Charles
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Lieut. in Princess Patricia's Cdn Light Infantry WW I
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Lt. Col. Robert Chamberlain, MC C St. J, CD |
Elgin Military Museum
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Bio in memory of Lt. Colonel Chamberlain, MC a former Chair and founding member of the Elgin Military Museum
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Job Well Done |
Brodie_Major W.
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D Squadron Elgin Regiment Commander remembers wartime highlights during WWII
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Honoring the Last Request |
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Pte Hayes writes a touching letter to the father of Pte Leslie Allison regarding the death of his son
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Good Men and True |
King_Major Edwin G.
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Squadron Elgin Regiment (in second configuration) Commander remembers wartime highlights along the Italian Front
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In Sicily with Monty |
King_Major Wilfred D.
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A Squadron Elgin Regiment (in first configuration) Commander remembers wartime highlights
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Last Canadian Wounded WWI |
Lawrence_Kenneth
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The last Canadian wounded in WW I recalls the moment
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Hit the Dirt |
Lewis_Major F.O. MBE ’Bear’
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C Squadron Elgin Regiment remembers wartime service in Northwest Europe
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H-Hour |
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Mac McDougall had to take on unexpected duties in the early
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Prelude to D-Day |
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Mac had to take on unexpected duties in the early hours of the D-Day landings. In 1945, General Charles DeGaulle, presented McDougall with the Croix de Guerre avec Etoile de Vermeil for his actions during the D-Day landing.
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Zeppelins & Chocolate |
Mitchell_Ephraim
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German zeppelins land in camp in south of England killing many but the horse Chocolate survives while the horse beside him died.
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E Squadron in Gala Dress |
Rankin_Major R.W.
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E Squadron Elgin Regiment Commander remembers wartime highlights “Rigged Up in Gala Dress
Incident at Cleve; First Experience With the Buzz-Bombs |
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Life Before the Front – Sandling Camp |
Satchell_Lance Corporal A.I.
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Life was good in Sandling Camp where the 91st Battalion members awaited their assignments at the front in WW I
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One Man’s War |
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Jack Stollery’s war as a member of the Canadian Army Film Unit in Italy, where he was awarded the Military Medal for exceptional service at the Battle of Ortona, and in Northwest Europe
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The Missing Guest |
Traditional
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The Table and toast to the absent soldier who is no longer alive
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Bag of Bombs |
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Charles Tweed writes to his mother from hospital about incidents in his role as a bomb thrower (grenades) in WW I
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Hospital a Sanctuary after the Somme |
Young_Thomas Richard
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The sense of relief at surviving yet the evident trauma/shock still being worked through after the horrors of the Somme
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