After listening to my war stories and some dedicated blog reading, Rachel decided it was time to see what all the fuss was about, so on...

This tour is taken is following Norm Christie’s excellent series for King and Empire. The Battle of Passchendaele, episode 4, in his For...

The next stop on my tour of Ypres was the Battle of Mont Sorrel, 2-13 Jun 1916. As with other tours, this adventure is following Norm...

I recently spent a week in Ypres, following the Canadian action in the area. The tour was based on the excellent book series, For King...

Battle of Canal du Nord and Cambrai Less than 4 weeks after the success in the Battle of Arras, the Canadian Corps was again up to...

Battle of Arras 26 Aug – 2 Sep Two weeks after completing the Battle of Amiens, the Canadian Corps received 12,000 replacement troops,...

Introduction I recently visited Arras with the intention of tracing the three main battles of the Canadian’s Last 100 days of the War in...

Les Bove d’Arras Caves were dug out under the Place des Heroes Square from the nineth century onwards, to extract chalk or limestone...

In January 2024, my war story buddy Wine Bob Drummond and I visited several WWI battlefields. This is his story of the Drummond family's...

Goodfellow Brothers – Missing in Action I have made several posts about the Goodfellow Brothers who were cousins of my maternal...

Vimy Ridge and the Canadian Memorials I was originally going to call this Refocused on Lens to cover the locations I had previously...

Our next stop on the tour was the area around Lens, which included Vimy Ridge, Hill 70 and a number of family battle sites. Hill 70...

I had posted about these locations during previous visit, but they are all iconic locations that tell the story of the Somme, so are well...

Recently I did a tour of the First World War Battlefields with my good buddy and fellow war story fan (Wine) Bob Drummond. We did a...

178084Sergeant Robert George Connelly, MM 1st Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force EARLY YEARS Robert George Connelly was born on the...

The Sancourt British Cemetery is located Northeast of the village of Sancourt, about 1 km down a single lane track amongst the fields....

Every year, in order to honour the Liberation of Belgium and the Netherlands, the Canadian Liberation March from Hoofdplaat, Netherlands...

Ernest Robert Goodfellow was born 05 Jun 1889 at 10 Old Barracks, Cemetery Road, Bury St Edmonds. His father was Henry Goodfellow, and his Mother Maria Reynolds. Ernest was baptised on 23 Nov 1896 at St James Church, 12 days after his mother’s death. Ernest was one of 4 Goodfellow brothers to serve in the War. Sadly, Henry, Ernest and Walter were killed and the youngest Thomas survived the war, but had been gassed and was in ill health for the rest of his short life. The Goo

Walter James Goodfellow was born on 13 Oct 1891 at 36 Cemetery Road, Bury St Edmunds, third son of Henry Goodfellow and Maria Reynolds. Walter was one of 4 Goodfellow brothers to serve in the War. Sadly, Henry, Ernest and Walter were killed and the youngest Thomas survived the war, but had been gassed and was in ill health for the rest of his short life. The Goodfellow brothers were cousins to my maternal grandmother Annie Johnston (Goodfellow). Walter enlisted in the 7th Ba

On our recent Somme Tour, we traveled from Fromelles to Vimy, and passed near by the Dud Corner Cemetery and Loos Memorial. We stopped in...