Re: History - Topics & Posted Articles

by Tazzer Sat 10 Nov 2018, 7:17 pm

IF YE BREAK FAITH: 100 years later, a Belgian city says thanks to Canada again

JENNIFER BIEMAN November 10, 2018

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https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/if-ye-break-faith-100-years-later-a-belgian-city-says-thanks-to-canada-again

by **Zoneforce** Sun 11 Nov 2018, 8:41 am

Enigma of Canada's most decorated WWI soldier endures

Laurie Fagan · CBC News · Posted: Nov 11, 2018

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/world-war-1-military-veterans-remembrance-1.4895850

by **Zoneforce** Sun 11 Nov 2018, 9:18 am

Smol: Nov. 11, 1918 wasn't the end of the fighting for Canadians in Russia

ROBERT SMOL Updated: November 11, 2018

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https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/smol-nov-11-1918-wasnt-the-end-of-the-fighting-for-canadians-in-russia

by **Zoneforce** Sun 11 Nov 2018, 9:23 am

Forgotten stories: First Nations soldiers who served in First World War

Angela Bosse · CBC News · Posted: Nov 11, 2018

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/remembrance-first-nations-soldiers-1.4896816

by **Masefield** Sun 11 Nov 2018, 7:43 pm

Veteran Jean Hubbard joined army on 18th birthday

Posted: November 11, 2018

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https://www.e-know.ca/regions/east-kootenay/veteran-jean-hubbard-joined-army-on-18th-birthday/

by **OutlawSoldier** Mon 12 Nov 2018, 1:46 pm

BOOK COLLECTS THE STORIES OF JEWISH WAR VETS

By Steve Arnold - November 12, 2018

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http://www.cjnews.com/culture/books-and-authors/book-collects-the-stories-of-jewish-war-vets

by Ringo Wed 14 Nov 2018, 4:47 pm

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Sundre veteran followed in his father’s footsteps

Bill Edwards inspired by his dad’s Second World War service

BY SIMON DUCATEL NOV 13, 2018

https://www.sundreroundup.ca/article/sundre-veteran-followed-in-his-fathers-footsteps-20181113

by Dragonforce Mon 19 Nov 2018, 8:41 am

Canada’s defining moment came with a ‘no’ to Brits in 1922

Scott Taylor
Published: Nov 19, 2018

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https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/columnists/on-target-canadas-defining-moment-came-with-a-no-to-brits-in-1922-260478/

by Looper Tue 20 Nov 2018, 8:29 am

Life in POW camp No. 133

BY SUBMITTED ARTICLE ON NOVEMBER 20, 2018.

Isabella Lee

During the Second World War, Lethbridge was host to Internment Camp No. 133, which was designed to hold some 12,500 German prisoners of war (POWs). Housing and rations for the prisoners were the same standard as for the Canadian Armed Forces, thanks to the terms of the Geneva Convention.

POWs were encouraged to be a part of a sports team or to create art that they could sell. Soon camps had a variety of recreation options including theatres, orchestras and even schools. One prisoner interned in Lethbridge, Sergeant Rudolf Senst, took courses in the camp school toward a degree in building contracting, for which he received full academic credit after the war.

In 1943, Canada’s Minister of Labour authorized POWs to be employed outside the camps. Prisoners in southern Alberta stoked wheat, harvested sugar beets and performed many other jobs. Many local farmers spoke German and developed relationships with the prisoners who came to work on their farms, some housing them off-camp for days at a time.

Alfred Weiss was a prisoner of war in Camp No. 133. He was an armored car driver in the Deutsches Afrika Korps and was taken prisoner by Scottish soldiers in November 1941 at the Battle of Tobruk in North Africa. During his time in Camp No. 133, Weiss worked on 44 different farms. After the war he asked some of these farmers to be his references so that he could return to Canada.

Camp No. 133 officially closed in December 1946. Most of the guards settled in southern Alberta, and many of the prisoners returned to Canada and continued farming. The property where the camp once stood is now the site of the Shackleford Industrial Park on the north side of Lethbridge.

You can learn more about the Lethbridge Prisoner of War Camp through materials in the archives and collections at the Galt Museum & Archives and at the new Lethbridge Military Museum located in the Vimy Ridge Armoury near the Lethbridge Airport which is open from noon to 4 p.m. each Wednesday.

Your old photos, documents, and artifacts might have historical value. Please contact Galt Museum & Archives for advice before destroying them.

https://lethbridgeherald.com/news/lethbridge-news/2018/11/20/life-in-pow-camp-no-133/

by Wolverine Wed 21 Nov 2018, 3:32 pm

The birth of a swift death: 401 Squadron at its 100th anniversary

Posted on November 21, 2018 by Dr. Richard Mayne

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https://www.skiesmag.com/news/the-birth-of-a-swift-death-401-squadron-at-its-100th-anniversary/

by **Hammercore** Fri 23 Nov 2018, 9:19 pm

Near Niagara Falls, U.S. and Canadian forts from the War of 1812 still face off

By Rebecca Ritzel November 23, 2018

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/near-niagara-falls-us-and-canadian-forts-from-the-war-of-1812-still-face-off/2018/11/21/74fa6a7c-e8ef-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.029d25cb1164

by RevForce Wed 28 Nov 2018, 1:19 pm

Local historian brings Bradford’s WWI veterans to life

Nov 28, 2018

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https://www.bradfordtoday.ca/local-news/local-historian-brings-bradfords-wwi-veterans-to-life-1139012

by Xrayxservice Mon 03 Dec 2018, 11:12 am

Spare a thought for Canadians in uniform this Christmas

Gilbert Taylor

Published:
December 3, 2018

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https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/taylor-spare-a-thought-for-canadians-in-uniform-this-christmas

by **RunningLight** Thu 13 Dec 2018, 7:27 pm

Scientists scour WWI shipwreck to solve military mystery

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Christina Larson, The Associated Press
Published Thursday, December 13, 2018 11:46AM EST
WASHINGTON -- A hundred years ago, a mysterious explosion hit the only major U.S. warship to sink during World War I. Now the Navy believes it has the answer to what doomed the USS San Diego: An underwater mine set by a German submarine cruising in waters just miles from New York City.

That's the conclusion of an investigation by scientists, archaeologists and historians convened by the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command. Last summer, the researchers sent an unmanned underwater vessel to inspect the site off New York's Long Island. Their analysis ruled out a torpedo and sabotage, two other possible scenarios.

The San Diego was sailing to New York on July 19, 1918, when an external explosion near the engine room shook the armoured cruiser. Water rushed into the hull. Within minutes, the 500-foot warship began to capsize. Weighed down with 2,900 tons of coal for a planned voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, the vessel sank in less than a half hour. Six crew members died.

"The explosion felt like a dull heavy thud," Capt. Harley Hannibal Christy, commander of the USS San Diego, wrote in a naval inquiry commissioned shortly after the warship sank. He had been standing on the bridge of the ship, on a clear day with light winds.

German naval records recovered after the war revealed that U-boat 156 had sailed just off the coast of New York, planting explosives.

"We believe that U-156 sunk San Diego," said Alexis Catsambis, an underwater archaeologist with the Navy. He presented the findings this week in Washington at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

Today, the shipwreck of San Diego is a rusting but well-preserved sanctuary for fish and lobsters. The researchers used information from the underwater vessel to create high-resolution 3D maps of the wreck. They modeled impact and flooding scenarios to analyze how the ship might have been attacked.

The flooding patterns weren't consistent with an explosion set inside the vessel. And the hole didn't look like a torpedo strike.

"Torpedoes of the time carried more explosives than mines -- and would have shown more immediate damage," said Arthur Trembanis, at University of Delaware marine scientist who collaborated on the study.

The mine was anchored at optimal depth to tear open a warship, said Ken Nahshon, a research engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Maryland, who also assisted the investigation.

The underwater explosive hit an unguarded lower part of the ship, where the hull was only about a half inch thick, said Nahshon. Had it struck the warship's armoured band, the 5-inch thick steel plating would have minimized the impact.

After the blast, the commander directed the ship's gunners to "open fire on anything resembling a periscope." Between 30 and 40 rounds were fired, in case an enemy submarine was nearby. The captain was aware German U-boats may have operating in the area. As the ship began to sink, Christy ordered the crew to pile into life rafts and dinghies. A passing whaleboat and two steamships helped rescue most of the San Diego's 1,100 sailors.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/scientists-scour-wwi-shipwreck-to-solve-military-mystery-1.4216564

by RevForce Sat 15 Dec 2018, 11:21 am

Rare WWII Hawker Hurricane plane restoration almost complete

By Kent Morrison
Anchor Global News
December 15, 2018

https://globalnews.ca/news/4765192/hawker-hurricane-wwii-plane-restoration-alberta/

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