In the summer, I gave a presentation about how to interpret Canadian Expeditionary Force Service Files to the Legion at Paisley, Ontario, which was well attended. This Remembrance Day, I am presenting at the Perth and Stratford Archives and Museum.
Somewhere in Flanders: A letter from Captain Samuel Monteith Loghrin
This letter was written in the trenches in Flanders. The 18th Battalion had been at RIDGEWOOD in Brigade Reserve up until January 15, 1916 when it relieved the 19th Canadian Battalion at VIERSTRAAT. On the 16th of January a compatriot, Lieutenant Ambery was promoted to Captain that day but Major Sale was killed by rifle... Continue Reading →
One Family. One War. 2 Lives
On October 26th, 1918 the Toronto Star carried a brief article about a newspaper reporter from Stratford who died in action with the 18th Battalion on October 10, 1918: Lavelle Killed in Action. Pte. Leonard S. Lavelle, formerly sporting editor of the Stratford Herald, was killed in action. He went overseas in the spring... Continue Reading →
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 