They came in their uniforms or their Sunday best, bearing wreaths of cloth poppies and handwritten notes for fallen family members and countrymen, to be laid upon marble steps, to be read like poems ...
After the Second Battle of Ypres, when poison gas floated down into the trenches of World War I for the first time, a Canadian soldier saw something surprisingly hopeful. In the rolling fields nearby, ...
Ernest Durham was underage when he volunteered for service. He arrived in France in early May 1915 and was one of 487 men rushed to reinforce the 1st Bn Yorks & Lancs during the Battle of Frezenberg ...