On 21st April, 2022, the Korean Embassy and the Korean Veterans Association, Unit #7, held a ceremony to remember the Battle of Kapyong in Korea on April 23-25, 1951. The battle was pivotal in that it allowed the retreating South Korean forces to orderly move through the Kapyong Valley and it stemmed the Chinese advance…
It is difficult today to believe that a person’s courage or ability in conflict can be affected by the colour of their skin, but that has not always been the case. Given North America’s history of slavery and subsequent emancipation, many have believed, and continue to believe, that those races so enslaved were lesser persons…
All too often during Remembrance periods we only think of those who died and we forget the multitudes who returned from war with physical and mental traumas. Not so for Elaine Goble, an artist from Orleans, Ontario, who has recently been given an exhibition of her artwork at the Canadian War Museum. Elaine has completed…
The 105th ceremony of remembrance for the Royal Newfoundland Regiment (RNR) and Battle of Beaumont-Hamel was held on July 1st, 2021, at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, on a somewhat overcast morning that threatened rain but eventually cleared up to a beautiful summer’s day. All Covid-19 restrictions were observed. The 1st of July is…
