Tuesday, May 28, 2013

A HISTORY OF THE 3RD (TORONTO REGIMENT) BATTALION, Part Five

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LATE 1917 "The word "Passchendaele" conjures vivid images of the Great War's fruitless slaughter and epitomizes the nad...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

A HISTORY OF THE 3RD (TORONTO REGIMENT) BATTALION, Part Four

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EARLY 1917 The remainder of the winter (1916-17) passed without incident, the battalion doing regular trench tours in the neighbourhood of...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

A HISTORY OF THE 3RD (TORONTO REGIMENT) BATTALION Part Three

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"The troops, of course, had been eagerly following the reports of the great battles that had been raging there (The Somme) for the last...
Wednesday, February 6, 2013

A HISTORY OF THE 3RD (TORONTO REGIMENT) BATTALION Part Two

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The devastating 2nd Battle of Ypres between April 22 and April 30, 1915 cost the 3rd Battalion 19 officers, including three of the four infa...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

A HISTORY OF THE 3RD (TORONTO REGIMENT) BATTALION Part One

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  One of the items I have in my collection of items related to the 3rd Battalion is a small booklet titled " A Brief History of the 3...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

WITH LOVE FROM DADDY - SARGEANT ALFRED E. PATERSON

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"Miss Dorothy Paterson, 360 Queen Street, Peterboro, Ontario, Canada Nov 23 My Dear little Daughter I hope you are still lookin...
Monday, July 30, 2012

CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHN VESSEY, 60TH BATTALION KIA 04/06/1916

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This is a story about cowboys, the settlement of Western Canada, British nobility, brave soldiers and an Ontario family of overachievers. ...
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