To see all the images from the ceremony, Go To Gallery On a beautiful sunny day on August 13th, 2022, a small group gathered at the Defence of Hong Kong Memorial Wall at King Edward Drive and Sussex Drive to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the end of fighting in the Far East during World…
Gallery of images for this event. On the 9th August, 1974, a United Nations Buffalo aircraft flying over Egypt was shot out of the sky by a Syrian 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…
On 19th June, 2022, at the National War Memorial, the Embassy of the Republic of Korea (a.k.a. ROK and South Korea) hosted a remembrance ceremony in honour of the 69th anniversary of the signing of the Korean Armistice in 1953. While this did not end the war, it did end the active hostilities and although…