Books on the Go: The Fighting Padre, the Great War Letters of Pat Leonard
I made the mistake of browsing the excellent Pen and Sword website recently and in due course three books arrived in the post (trans-Atlantic mail has improved remarkably since the start of Covid) […]
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 […]
Book Review: Percy, a Story of 1918
Percy: A Story of 1918, by Peter Doyle with illustrations by Tim Godden. London: Unicorn Publishing Group, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-911604-81-5 Percy is a collaboration between a distinguished British historian of […]
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 Some D-Day Chaplains
It’s June 6th and a friend of mine on Facebook informed me about one of the first army padres ashore on D-Day. Chaplain Julian Ellenberg was an Anglican priest assigned […]
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 […]
Faith At The Fort: Garrison Religion In Toronto In The 1800s
It’s been very quiet here since Christmas. In my spare time, when not working or helping my wife’s battle with cancer, I’ve been focusing on my hobbies, which are described […]