Recent content by Freedom_Rider

Thanks to everyone for the info. I'll be taking a drive out that way this summer to check out the area and see what is still around.

I need a Little help here please. If anyone can identify this photo and tell me where it was taken. All I know is that it was in my fathers collection of photos of WW1 photos and had 'Barriefield Camp' written on the back. Is it Camp Borden as I believe it to be? If not, where is it? It would...

Hello Toque. Its not as easy as you may believe to get a copy of your grandfathers service record. The first step will be to find out what his regimental number was. Then, if he has passed away, you will have to provide proof of his death such as a Death Certificate or newspaper notice. Even...

You have to remember the British attitude of the time. They were a world power. Most of them considered anyone who wasn't English to be slightly less than civilized people. Want an example? I remember reading a newpaper article about the president of France to my Grandmother ( born in Blackpool...

I've got to say that the RCASC's "Wait For The Wagon" is the best I have ever heard. But just about anything by John Philip Soussa will do, in a pinch I guess.

How much are they worth? How do you put a price on history, on the personal sacrifice that earned him those medals. I'm glad to read that you would never sell them and that you intend to have them polished and framed. Any good frame shop should be able to do it for you, just make sure you tell...

From what I have read and heard about "Private Armies", most of them are better equipped than the regular government forces. I have a friend who flies helicopter for a company under contract to the American government. He is  currently in Iraq. The personal side arm he carries ( suplied by the...

Basicly, they believed they were the true pure arien "Super Race" and it was their place to rule over all others.

Both my grandfathers were at Vimy Ridge. One with the CEF and the other with the Brits.

Just thought I would add my 2 cents worth here about Ortona before its to late and this discussion closes. This is from the cbc.ca archives web site: "The Battle of The Moro". "The Germans had given the Allies the impression that Ortona was an objective that would be worth obtaining. In fact...

I guess that it does vary from district to district. I know that when my oldest niece ( grade 10) wants to know about Canadian history she comes to me. She seems to think that just because I'm the oldest I probably lived through it.

In 30 years? Did you think anything would? Reports from 70 years ago say the same thing. In 1939 the federal government was lambased when it was revelled that the Canadian Forces were being issued WW1 uniforms and training with broom handles for rifles and stones for hand grenades. Nothing ever...

I've noticed that myself. My father was a career man, so was one of my uncles (both of them "Red Devils", and I shouldn't have to tell any of you what a "Red Devil" was). And both my maternal and paternal grandfathers were with the 1st Canadians in WW1, and both were at Vimiy Ridge and the...

Hello Marco. I just checked out your web site. Very nicely done. Needs a little more English though.