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| Author: | Stearman75972 [ Mon May 26, 2014 2:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Walking Western Front Collection of articles about WWI |
Walking Western Front Collection of articles about WWI from the Canadian view The Toronto Star has published a collection of the various articles about Canada in WWI. I have posted a few of the articles and many have read them, enjoying the insight into "The Great War to End All Wars" Read the articles at: http://www.thestar.com/news/walking_the ... front.html Stories: Seven things you didn't know about a WWI Commonwealth Cemetery For 80 years, Pte. William Phillips lay in the wrong grave How to (quietly) move 100,000 Canadian troops When the Virgin falls, the war will end’ Chins tucked down, Newfoundland’s soldiers charged into blizzard of German fire An underground world of quarries, tunnels and an 'English' garden Walking the Western Front: Uncle Geoffrey's pilgrims Time stands still in church that bears the scars of war Eerie chalk caves at Maison Blanche are custodians of Canadian soldiers’ artistry One soldier, three cemeteries and a mother who never stopped plotting Some unsung heroes of the victory at Vimy A map of the Western Front walk At Vimy Ridge, unexpected reminders of home 'You must go to Vimy' Walking the Western Front - from war hero to enemy alien and back again ‘That’s why we died’, to keep the buses running to La Bassée Upside-down maps and death in the orchard Canadian contingent’s first action glorious — or so the papers said How the Mademoiselle found immortality Walking the Western Front - 'There are always choices' Walking the Western Front - Soccer pilgrims lay offerings at site of the (possible) 1914 Christmas game The Australian who turned up after 91 years in the Belgian soil ‘Corporal Adolf Hitler was treated here’ reads panel at church in Messines after WWI Walking the Western Front: A Sikh soldier lies at rest, far from homeland and adopted land At Menin Gate, a nightly sign of hope amid the anger of names Walking the Western Front: 'A noble type of good heroic womanhood' Come into the garden and forget about the war The strawberry machine, a celebrity niece and cows with white eyelashes At stunning memorial near Ypres, 'sentinel' looms over Canadians killed in gas attacks An eerie landscape at a German cemetery in Langemark At a Passchendaele pig farm, a new Canadian target Where John McCrae wrote 'In Flanders Fields' Tourist attraction in Diksmuide, Belgium: the Trench of Death Where the Western Front begins Salisbury Plain: Mud, misery and even death for Canadians training for war Canadian soldiers train for First World War in Valcartier, Quebec First World War begins at home |
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