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...

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...

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...

Battle of Arras 26 Aug – 2 Sep Two weeks after completing the Battle of Amiens, the Canadian Corps received 12,000 replacement troops,...

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...

Les Bove d’Arras Caves were dug out under the Place des Heroes Square from the nineth century onwards, to extract chalk or limestone...

Adjacent to the Sea War Museum was the Thyboron Fortress, a portion of Germany’s World War Two Atlantic Wall.  The Atlantic Wall contains...

In January 2024, my war story buddy Wine Bob Drummond and I visited several WWI battlefields. This is his story of the Drummond family's...

Background One of the things I have enjoyed most about documenting the Battlefield Touring is the Collateral Knowledge that you uncover...

1:100 Scale model of the Vimy Memorial. In my recent post about the Vimy Memorial, I mentioned that 17 of the 20 plaster models of the...

During our tour of Ypres, we visited Langemark German Cemetery just north of Ypres, one of the 4 German War Cemeteries in Belgium which...

Goodfellow Brothers – Missing in Action I have made several posts about the Goodfellow Brothers who were cousins of my maternal...

Vimy Ridge and the Canadian Memorials I was originally going to call this Refocused on Lens to cover the locations I had previously...

Our next stop on the tour was the area around Lens, which included Vimy Ridge, Hill 70 and a number of family battle sites. Hill 70...

I had posted about these locations during previous visit, but they are all iconic locations that tell the story of the Somme, so are well...

Recently I did a tour of the First World War Battlefields with my good buddy and fellow war story fan (Wine) Bob Drummond. We did a...

178084Sergeant Robert George Connelly, MM 1st Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force EARLY YEARS Robert George Connelly was born on the...

The Sancourt British Cemetery is located Northeast of the village of Sancourt, about 1 km down a single lane track amongst the fields....

Every year, in order to honour the Liberation of Belgium and the Netherlands, the Canadian Liberation March from Hoofdplaat, Netherlands...

During Rachel’s fall break, we did a tour of Vienna, Bratislava and Prague. The tour was meant to be a break from war stories, but we did...