Having to admit a bias before I write this post... The work the people have done to preserve this history of the 21st Battalion, CEF, at their web site and Facebook Group is something I covet. The detail, depth, and consistent and unrelenting passion to insure that this part of our heritage is kept alive... Continue Reading →
Rifle Grenades Revisited
In a post entitled "The narrow escapes that some fellows have are nothing short of marvellous": A Letter from the Front the, then, Private Caldwell relates in some detail a battle between the 18th Battalion, C.E.F. and it opposite German numbers: "Our last term in the front line was rather exciting. Our bomb throwers had been... Continue Reading →
Book: The Apathetic and Defiant: Case Studied of Canadian Mutiny and Disobedience, 1812-1919.
During my research regarding Lieutenant Colonel Charles Sydney Woodrow my Google search happened about a book titled "The Apathetic and Defiant: Case Studied of Canadian Mutiny and Disobedience, 1812-1919." edited by Craig L. Mantle. My interest in the 18th Battalion was not related to the passage involving Lt.-Col. Woodrow but there was a wonderful paragraph... Continue Reading →
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 