by K-J | 11 Feb 2023 | History
Editor’s Note: During the First World War, Pte Cecil Minary served in the CEF, beginning his military training at Camp Hughes prior to being shipped to England for additional training. He saw his first action in France soon after Canada’s involvement in the Battle of...
by K-J | 9 Feb 2023 | Features
LCol Reg Sharpe received his great-grandfather’s Dead Man’s penny he received from a cousin from Ottawa, who had it in her possession for years after it left family in Newfoundland. He passed it on to his father, a retired artillery soldier who trained at...
by K-J | 8 Feb 2023 | Features
2Lt Jerome Downey Stag Special On the eve of Remembrance Day in 2021, while tracing the footsteps of No. 2 Construction Battalion in Jura, France, I had a surreal experience. I stumbled upon a photograph of my great-grandfather Pte George A. Downey on a wall at the...
by K-J | 1 Feb 2023 | History
Editor’s Note: During the First World War, Pte Cecil Minary served in the CEF, beginning his military training at Camp Hughes prior to being shipped to England for additional training. He saw his first action in France soon after Canada’s involvement in the Battle of...
by K-J | 30 Jan 2023 | History
Editor’s Note: During the First World War, Pte Cecil Minary served in the CEF, beginning his military training at Camp Hughes prior to being shipped to England for additional training. He saw his first action in France soon after Canada’s involvement in the Battle of...
