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Oakville Beaver, 12 Nov 2009, 9, 14     Belgian Croix de Guerre; Vimy Ridge; Ypres; Somme; Flanders Fields

    The Villa Orphée in Étretat was built in 1858 by musician Jacques Offenbach as a summer retreat. During World War I it was used by the British as a 20-bed convalescent home for nurses. In 1833 gifted

    Postcard mailed to Rev. R. B. Layton of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church in Kentville, Nova Scotia, from 23-year-old farmer Carl Manning Dickey in Belgium, ca. December 1916.

    The Canadian Army Medical Corps operated its General Hospital No. 9 at Shorncliffe from Sept. 1917 to Dec. 1918. The General Hospital No. 11 operated there from Sept. 1917 to Sept. 1919.

    This railway station is equidistant between the village of Dannes and that of Camiers, in the Department of Pas de Calais, 14 miles south of Boulogne-sur-Mer, in Northern France. During World War I t

    Scottish-born trained gardener 42-year-old James Gallaher had emigrated to Canada a year before the outbreak of war to work for the Dominion Experimental Station in Kentville, Nova Scotia. He signed

    Étretat is a small seaside town flanked by dramatic chalk cliffs about 26 kilometres north of Le Havre on the Upper Normandy coast. It was the location of a British General Base Hospital for five yea

    The Cologne Cathedral, or "Hohe Domkirche St. Peter und Maria," is a Roman Catholic Gothic church in Cologne, Germany. Construction began in 1248 and finished over 600 years later in 1880. Today it i

    Scottish-born trained gardener 39-year-old James Gallaher had emigrated to Canada a year before the outbreak of war to work for the Dominion Experimental Station in Kentville, Nova Scotia. He signed

    Witley Military Camp, often simplified to Camp Witley, was a temporary army camp set up on Witley Common, near Godalming, Surrey, England (southeast of London) during both the First and Second World

    Witley Military Camp, often simplified to Camp Witley, was a temporary army camp set up on Witley Common, near Godalming, Surrey, England (southeast of London) during both the First and Second World

    Printed on the reverse: "Buckingham Palace stands at the end of the beautiful processional avenue known as the Mall. The Palace, the London residence of the Sovereign, is a massive and imposing build

    Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of larg

    Tintern Abbey, founded by Walter de Clare, Lord of Chepstow in 1131, is situated on the River Wye in Monmouthshire, Wales. In 1536 the monastery ended and the decay of the buildings began. On 4 Augus

    Photograph of General George Brock Chisholm in his military uniform. General Chisholm is one of Oakville's most famous men.

    In the 20 June 1916 Nova Scotia election, Liberal George Murray was re-elected.

    Vancouver's Bronze Angel, a war memorial erected in 1921 at Vancouver's Canadian Pacific Railway Station, commemorates those who had previously worked for the C.P.R. and had lost their lives in the w

Oakville Beaver, 4 Nov 2005     article incomplete

Oakville Beaver, 12 Nov 2009, p. 5     Ypres; Somme; Afghanistan Remembrance Day ceremony; Cenotaph at George's Square on Trafalgar Road

    A typed letter from Allan Davidson to his mother. Sent from Monselice, Italy.