Monthly Archives: February 2020

Major Gilbert Anderson

Maj Gilbert Anderson Major Anderson was the A Company Commander on the Somme and his letters home provide an idea of the battles they took part in. It references Maj Lucas’s injury. Detail on Major Anderson’s background will go here … Continue reading

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CHARLES WILLIAMSON

16 May 2011 With all the recent Remembrance Day activity, I remembered that my wife had an uncle who was killed in action in WW1, and decided to do a little digging in our old treasure chest of family keepsakes. … Continue reading

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Spring Cleaning 2020

We publish this web site in WordPress. After a lull that began the day after the Vimy Ridge Celebrations in 2017 we have taken up the reins once again to push everything from previous versions of the site to the … Continue reading

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The 54th Battalion War Diary – the daily events form 1916 – 1919

Every day of the war was recorded in the War Diary Date:1916/08/01-1918/04/30 Date:1918/05/01-1919/04/30

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PART II Orders

Part II Orders detail personnel arrivals in the unit while in France and Belgium This is a zip file which you can view Link here We can also arrange for you to download these 421 files from Google Drive Send … Continue reading

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Remembering Vern Schneider

Get your own day by day record of the news clips of WW1 and the day by day struggle or heroism and tragedy. The story archive at the bottom of the front page was the brainchild of Vern Schneider of Trail … Continue reading

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Belgium 1918/1919 – Thanks to Fred Young in Calgary – 19 Feb 2020

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