Canadian Liberation March
This year was the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Belgium and the Netherlands and the 50th Anniversary of the Canadian Liberation...
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pd-allen
Oct 3011 min read
D-Day Gold Beach
My next stop on the D-Day tour was Gold Beach, the British Beach in the centre of the D-Day landings. Gold Beach had 4 sectors, but due...
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Oct 2710 min read
D-Day Juno Beach
As I continued on my Normandy Tour, I took a one-day Canadian Beaches and inland tour. I had been to Juno beach before but felt since the...
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pd-allen
Oct 2414 min read
D-Day The US Beaches
US Beaches I hadn’t visited any US D-Day beaches during my previous visit to Normandy, so I decided to take a one-day tour of the...
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Oct 1116 min read
Final Flight for Robert McKenzie
Back Story During a recent visit to Normandy, I visited a number of locations associated with Flight Lieutenant Robert McKenzie, a...
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Oct 109 min read
Battle of the Scheldt - North
The exploration of the Battle of the Scheldt continued, looking at the Action on the Northern Bank. Fortunately, I did not have to sleep...
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Oct 89 min read
Battle of the Scheldt - Southern Bank
Thanks to a teacher girls’ weekend in Milan, Rachel’s car and I got to spend some time exploring the Battle of the Scheldt, a major...
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pd-allen
Sep 267 min read
Operation Market Garden
As part of the 80th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden there was a demonstration of the parachute drop at Eerde, just north of...
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pd-allen
Sep 256 min read
Liberation of the Netherlands
I was fortunate to arrive back in the Netherlands in time for celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Limburg...
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Sep 412 min read
War Stories of the Rich and Famous
A question about this map from a post about the Canadians at Second Ypres led to the fascinating story of two grandfathers in the Great...
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pd-allen
Jun 1410 min read
Rachel Tours Cambrai
On our last day of touring, we worked our way back south of Arras before heading back home to Maastricht. Monchy-le-Preux Our first stop...
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pd-allen
Jun 513 min read
Rachel Tours Arras
After a good day on the Somme, we headed up to Arras for Part Deux of the Rachel Battlefield Tour. Rob Wolsey, a Canadian Battlefield...
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pd-allen
May 3012 min read
Rachel Tours The Somme
After listening to my war stories and some dedicated blog reading, Rachel decided it was time to see what all the fuss was about, so on...
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pd-allen
May 2712 min read
Canadians at Passchendaele - Oct - Nov 1917
This tour is taken is following Norm Christie’s excellent series for King and Empire. The Battle of Passchendaele, episode 4, in his For...
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pd-allen
May 239 min read
Canadians at Mont Sorrel - June 1916
The next stop on my tour of Ypres was the Battle of Mont Sorrel, 2-13 Jun 1916. As with other tours, this adventure is following Norm...
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pd-allen
May 217 min read
Canadians at Second Battle of Ypres - April 1915
I recently spent a week in Ypres, following the Canadian action in the area. The tour was based on the excellent book series, For King...
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pd-allen
May 1512 min read
Mining Messines
During my recent trip to Arras, I became interested in the mining operations in the war. The Battle of Messines is the apex of the mining...
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May 28 min read
Last 100 Days - Cambrai 27 Sep 1918
Battle of Canal du Nord and Cambrai Less than 4 weeks after the success in the Battle of Arras, the Canadian Corps was again up to...
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Apr 2912 min read
Last 100 Days - Arras 26 Aug 1918
Battle of Arras 26 Aug – 2 Sep Two weeks after completing the Battle of Amiens, the Canadian Corps received 12,000 replacement troops,...
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Apr 259 min read
Last 100 Days - Amiens 08 Aug 1918
Introduction I recently visited Arras with the intention of tracing the three main battles of the Canadian’s Last 100 days of the War in...
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