Christmas Dinner at the Front, Holland 1944
As you look forward to what you’ll be eating this Christmas dinner, you can listen to this piece of CBC audio reporting from Holland, broacast n Dec 4, 1944. A […]
A Christmas Gift for Canadian Military History Buffs
Representative of Their Numbers Medium: oil on canvasDimensions: 107 x 137 cm Date: 2005From the collection of: The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (4th Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry)Painting by Catherine […]
Past and Present: A Nod Back at Remembrance Day
I didn’t have time to post these two pictures, but I used them on the cover of the Remembrance Day program that I produced for use here at CFB Suffield. […]
St. Clements Danes – The Air Force Church in London
The Maple Leaf, the Canadian Forces newspaper, ran a lovely piece in last week’s Remembrance Day edition on St. Clements Danes in Westminster, London, UK. This church, designed by St. […]
More on Syrupy Remembrance Day Kitsch
Here’s a reason why I was glad to read Christie Blatchford as stated in the previous post. By the end of this week, I had received my share of maudlin […]
RAF Pilots Honoured by Battle of Britain Tea
With Sept 19th’s Battle of Britain Sunday service still fresh in my memory, I was pleased to see this story in the UK MOD press service about how a British […]
Homeland Security: A Sermon for Battle of Britain Sunday
Preached at Christ the King Chapel, CFB Suffield, AB, 19 September, 2010, on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Micah 4:1-5, Psalm 23,Ephesians 6:10-18, John […]
What Makes a Good General, Part Two – Tom Ricks on George S. Patton
Recently defence blogger Tom Ricks has been documenting some of the more outlandish, outrageous, anti-semitic, misanthropic and generally hateful things said by George S. Patton, the iconic US general of […]
What Makes a Bad General?
One more post on the subject of leadership, good and bad. Crusty milblogger Thomas Ricks has offered a list of the top ten worst generals in US history, and he […]
For Fans of Naval History
Two pieces in the news last week spoke to naval stories of World War Two. Last Friday the 70th anniversary of Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of British and French soldiers […]