I was honoured to once again provide photographic services to the Royal Canadian Legion – Dominion Command for the National Remembrance Day Ceremony at the National War Memorial. Because the national ceremony is their story to tell, I will not do so here but rather just show a few pictures from before and after the…
This year, militaries around the world are celebrating the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. War, in itself, is bad but one that involves the entire world is almost unimaginable. Yet it happened twice. The scope of a world war, along with the deaths and atrocities, both military and civilian, is…
On the 9th August, 1974, a United Nations Buffalo aircraft flying over Egypt was shot out of the sky by a Syrian air defence missile. On that plane were nine Canadian Armed Forces personnel involved in a peacekeeping mission who were killed on what was supposed to be a routine resupply mission to the presence…
Canada has had many heroes emerge from the conflicts in which we have participated. Most of these people never sought recognition or glory but had it thrust upon them when they were confronted with overwhelming circumstances and chose to meet the challenge head-on rather than turn and flee. One such man was Robert Hampton Gray….
The Second World War was fought in Europe from September, 1939, (if you don’t count the incursions of Germany on Austria and Czechoslovakia) until May 8th, 1945. The actual document of surrender was signed on May 7th, but the Soviet Union’s representative was deemed by Stalin to not have the authority to sign such a…
On a beautiful sunny day on August 10th, 2024, a small group gathered at the “C” Force Memorial Wall (a.k.a. The Defence of Hong Kong Memorial Wall) at King Edward Drive and Sussex Drive to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the end of fighting in the Far East during World War II and also to…
To see all the pictures from this event, CLICK HERE: For 35 years Korea had been a Japanese colony and had suffered at the hands of the Japanese all that time and especially during WWII. After WWII, a line was drawn at the 38th parallel making two occupation zones: the North controlled by Russia and…
To see all the pictures from this event, CLICK HERE: When one mentions “D-Day”, no further explanation is required as the day and its meaning is ubiquitous and requires no explanation. Everyone knows that on June 6th, 1944, the Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, opening up the second front of the war…
On the 8th of May, 1945, the surrender of the German Army came into effect and the European theatre of war was finished after six long years. Ukraine has taken that date to be their date of Remembrance of all the people who died, either by war, atrocities, executions, the Holocaust, bombings, and bloody battles…
Today the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands remembered those Dutch who have fallen in wars at a Remembrance Day ceremony held at the National Military Cemetery in Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa. The day was forecast for rain but it turned out to be a sunny day with a light breeze and a temperature…