Honouring Canada’s Indigenous Veterans
One of our parishioners at All Saints has reminded me that November 8th is National Aboriginal Veterans’ Day. Over the next few days, I’ve set myself the task of […]
Canadian Armed Forces Chaplain General’s Prayer, Remembrance Day, 2018
We gather today on this hallowed ground on which is interred Canada’s Unknown Soldier, to remember all those who made the ultimate sacrifice. On the Centennial of the signing […]
Faithful Till The End: Canadian Military Chaplains in the Last Days of the Great War
No Canadian scholar knows the history of Canadian military chaplaincy in the Great War better than my friend, Dr. Duff Crerar. In these notes which Duff kindly shared with myself […]
Remembering Canada’s First Black Military Chaplain
A colleague here at the Canadian Forces Chaplain School and Centre was reviewing our new chaplain history curriculum and asked me why our first African-Canadian chaplain was not included. Because […]
Remembering Canadian Great War Chaplains in the Hundred Days
The text below is from an email sent by my friend and colleague, Dr. Duff Crerar, author of Padres in No Man’s Land (McGill Queen’s 1995, 2nd ed 2014). Duff regularly […]
Remembering a Canadian Great War Chaplain: Donald MacPhail
I owe this chaplain story to my friend Dr. Duff Crerar. I had never heard of Padre MacPhail or of the Llandovery Castle until he told me the story. The […]
Book Review: The Vimy Trap (2016) by Ian McKay and Jamie Swift
Hello! I am trying to get this blog back into service as part of my ongoing professional military development. This is a book review that I submitted to the Canadian […]
Book review: Hugh Sebag-Montefiore, Somme: Into The Breach
A small addition to my modest resume of military writing. This book review on a 2016 book on the First World War’s Battle of the Somme was published yesterday in […]
Remembering Canada’s Army Chaplains at Vimy Ridge
This week, starting on Sunday, marks the centenary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, when the Canadian Corps, fighting together, achieved a significant victory on the Western Front during World […]
Military Picture Of The Week
From the DND / RCAF website: Wing Commander John “Moose” Fulton, D.F.C., A.F.C., photographed on June 12, 1942, was the first commanding officer of 419 Squadron. He died on July […]