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September 10, 2005 Major who helped to save a US convoy wins Military Cross By Fran Yeoman Times on Line AN ARMY major who risked his life to help an American convoy under heavy attack in Afghanistan was honoured yesterday with one of the highest medals for bravery. The Military Cross was...

I am cetain that your local library or university library will have a good selection of books on the war (Brock University lists 548 titles), but here are a few relating to Brock and Niagara:-- The Death of Isaac Brock by Pierre Berton A Very Interesting Affair: The Battle of Queenston Heights...

There is a range of mountains in the Rockies known as the Victoria Cross Range. Six of the 17 peaks have been named after VC recipients, all with some connection to Alberta, the province in which the range of mountains lies. Would it not be wonderful if we could have mountain peaks named after...

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Robert Runchy was a Captain in the Lincoln Militia, not a Colonel.

Another "head of the class" member. Recceguy, I thought it would take at least a day for someone to come up with the correct answer. You did in 10 minutes!  :salute:

Who said: " I have ate of the King's salt, and therefore I conceive it to be my duty to serve with unhesitating zeal and cheerfulness when and where my King or his government may think proper to employee me."

Art, go to the head of the class, although it's getting pretty crowded up there.  :salute: I believe these are the only three. Rather than ROTC, is it not the COTC (Canadian Officers' Training Corps) in  which Trudeau was enrolled?

Name the twentieth century Canadian Prime Ministers who had military service (regular or reserve).

IAN BRUCE, Defence Correspondent August 31 2005 Copyright © 2005 Newsquest (Herald & Times) Limited. All Rights Reserved  SCOTLAND'S only tank regiment is to be sent to Iraq to fight as light infantry because the army is running out of foot soldiers. The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (RSDG)...

Go to the head of the class!  :salute: I thought this would stump you guys  -- at least for a couple of days

Captain James Barry has been described as "the most remarkable medical officer" of his era, entering the British army as a hospital assistant in 1813 and rising to be inspector-general of the Army Medical Department in 1858. In addition to fighting a duel, and being "the most skilled of...

We have so many people in this country that speak English as a second language (or not at all) that it made a great deal of sense to have the motto changed. You disagree? How many speak Latin? I see nothing wrong with making national awards exclusive - and certainly a "Canadianized" VC is part...

I was once told that when the Government set out to establish a Canadian honours system, in the formal documentation listing which British honours were to be replaced, the Victoria Cross was inadvertently left off the submission to the Queen. Howerver, during all the PR of the day, this was...

Michael:-- If anyone were to bet on who would come up with the answer, he could do worse than to put his mpney on you!  :salute: I took the quote from Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket by Richard Holmes, 2001. An excellent read. :cdn:

In the quote below, who are "the former" and who are "the latter"? "The former would sell everything to feed his horse; the latter would sell his horse itself for spirits, or the means of obtaining them."

All good comments, but they mean ziltz if she does not read them. I was once told that MPs considered one letter to represent about 300 or so others of similar conviction. let's swamp her and let her know what we think of her behaviour and beliefs. Email her at [email protected] Whenever...

Why is it that some threads seem to be locked into the top of the listings, but they are old, some very old, e.g. the subject New Foreign and Defence Policy Statements was last active on 26 Apr 05, yet it is right up of the listings. Sorry it I don't have the correct terminologies for this

Hey, Guys. I specifically asked that we not re-open the legal arguments.  :gunner: :gunner: :gunner: :gunner: What I wanted was to here of instances where widows wore the medals in reverse order on the right breast. Let's try to keep this discussionon track.  :salute:

It seems to have been an established practice in the United Kingdom after the First World War for widows to wear their husband's medals on the right breast with the medals mounted in reverse order. A photograph of a woman wearing a WW1 VC group and selling poppies during WW2 appears in the...