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Post by Glideon Wed 12 Jun 2019, 7:31 pm

CTV Windsor: Honouring veterans

A Chatham-Kent couple used some of their time in Europe to commemorate local veterans buried overseas. Chris Campbell has details.

Wednesday, Jun. 12, 2019



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Post by Diesel Thu 13 Jun 2019, 10:08 am

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Bart Armstrong show off a digital copy of the portrait of his mother on her wedding day, as well as a portrait of his aunt. Armstrong was contacted recently by the family of the portrait artist in Belgium, which was trying to find out who the bride is.



Greater Victoria man shares the secrets behind a portrait of a Canadian Bride

NICOLE CRESCENZI / Jun. 13, 2019

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Post by Vizzer Thu 13 Jun 2019, 8:40 pm

N.S. veteran of Devils Brigade passes away - June 13, 2019





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Post by Kizzer Sun 16 Jun 2019, 12:48 pm

World War II veterans: Their sacrifice honoured in ice, stone & wate

June 16, 2019

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Mount Kimmel, as visible from across the valley high on Mount Terry Fox. Taken July 14, 2012.



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Gordon Kimmel. The three brothers, Clifford, Gordon and Richard Kimmel who died within six months of each other. /VETERANS AFFAIRS

Seventy-five years after D-Day, a turning point in the Second World War, Canadians are remembering the sacrifices

made by a generation, close to Valemount a mountain, glacier and creek mark the extraordinary sacrifice of a family with local connections.

Three brothers who grew up in Albreda died in 1944 within six months of each other.

Rifleman Gordon Leroy Kimmel died on June 8, 1944 at 26 years old. He served with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles.


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Richard Kimmel. The three brothers, Clifford, Gordon and Richard Kimmel who died within six months of each other. /VETERANS AFFAIRS

Corporal Richard Kenneth Kimmel died June 18, 1944 at 28 years old and served in the Regina Rifle Regiment.

Corporal Clifford Howard Kimmel died December 5, 1944 at 28 years old. He served in the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment.

Mount Kimmel is 25 km south west of Valemount as the crow flies. It’s not visible from town as it is obscured by the surrounding landscape.

The creek is the easiest to get to, and can be found at about kilometer 10 on the road to Canadian Mountain Holidays.


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Clifford Kimmel. The three brothers, Clifford, Gordon and Richard Kimmel who died within six months of each other. /VETERANS AFFAIRS

In 1961, 17 years later, their mother, Sylvia Kimmel represented Canadian mothers at

Remembrance Day services in Ottawa. She would die later that year.

Gordon and Richard were born in Illinois, Their father Harry Kimmel left Illinois to settle in Edmonton in 1917. In 1918 he moved to work at Kennedy’s sawmill in Swift Creek, where Clifford was born. The Kimmel’s had 12 children in total.

In 1922 the family moved to a homestead in Albreda where they lived for many years.


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Sylvia Kimmel, their mother.
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Post by Lonestar Mon 17 Jun 2019, 8:52 am

A 'stain on the fair name of our soldiers': Remembering a Canadian riot that turned deadly in England in 1919

Thomas Daigle · CBC News · Posted: Jun 17, 2019

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Police officer Sgt. Thomas Green died after he was injured when Canadian soldiers rioted south of London, England, on June 17, 1919.





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Post by Proctor Wed 19 Jun 2019, 8:48 pm

'Pleased to be recognized as a veteran': New banners honour Minnedosa's military vets

Riley Laychuk · CBC News · Posted: Jun 19, 2019

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Each banner contains the name and photo of a Minnedosa veteran, along with the years they served.





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Post by Lonestar Fri 21 Jun 2019, 8:54 am

Peter Shawn Taylor: A Canadian colonial hero who fought to prevent a genocide

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An undated 19th-century photograph of Sir William Francis Butler, taken from the Archives of Manitoba. Archives of Manitoba





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Post by Dalton Tue 25 Jun 2019, 3:46 pm

Guy Eisnor joined army at 17, took part in D-Day invasion

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Post by Vexmax Fri 28 Jun 2019, 6:34 am

Veteran keeps D-Day stories alive

By Brenda Hunter - Published: June 27, 2019

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Jack Houston says he worries about what will happen when the last of the Second World War veterans die and no one is left to keep the memories alive. | Brenda Hunter photo



A 96-year-old man from Manitoba embraces every opportunity to talk about the Second World War and his experiences

Jack Haddow Houston, a veteran of the Second World War, turned 21 three days before the epic D-Day invasion of German-occupied France by Allied troops at Normandy on June 6, 1944.

Earlier this month he turned 96 and celebrated the 75th anniversary of D-Day at his home in Birch Lodge in Hamiota, Man.

He was one of the lucky ones.

The nightmarish experiences he witnessed during his time overseas with the 12th Manitoba Dragoons are painful for Houston to recall. However, he continues to do so, with extraordinary detail. He believes this is his purpose, the important reason why he is still here and of sound mind — to share the stories, lest people forget.

“Once we ran over a mine and it literally blew all the wheels off of our armoured vehicle,” recalled Houston.

“Another time in Holland while on foot, I felt a bullet whiz by my ear and later noticed the hole in my hat. Those weren’t my days to die, I guess.”

Houston has always been fiercely patriotic and embraces every opportunity to talk of the war and his experiences, answer questions from curious parties (especially young people), honour his fallen brethren and preserve the sanctity of the period. But never has he spoken so candidly as he did on the 75th anniversary of that pivotal day.

Houston actually landed at Juno Beach on D-Day plus one, the day after the D-Day invasion. There were so many soldiers involved in the attack that there was physically not enough room on the boats for all of them to go at once.

He was in an amphibious tank and was able to disembark on dry land, unlike the day before when rough seas and underwater land mines disabled landing craft and forced troops to disembark in the water and make their way to shore amid heavy gunfire.

Houston said he was not prepared for what he saw as the tank he was in manoeuvred over the bodies and debris and up the steep banks to the hills and beyond.

“There were miles of bodies laying everywhere … bodies, death and destruction,” said Houston. “It was far more terrifying (than any movie could depict) and worse than they could ever put on film.

“The water was full of boats. No one had any idea how big of an event this was or was going to be. All we knew was that we needed the beach to be ours and it would be the foothold we needed.

“We believed everything they said (on the radios). We had to keep pushing forward, we were the front line and those behind us were relying on us to clear the way. We were part of the reconnaissance outfit, we plotted out the bad spots, cleared it out and got rid of the enemy. We had no concept of where we had been or what we had conquered. We were given maps for a small area and when we conquered that, we got the next map. I was watching the world literally through a six by 10 (inch) window (in the tank). We had no idea until later how pivotal that day had been.

“There were so many dead boys on the roadside … but we had to keep moving. Where would we be today if we hadn’t? The Nazis would have ruled the world. Hitler wanted the world and he wasn’t going to stop, and there is proof in that. The war was a necessary evil.”

Recalling the moment when he learned the war was over was an emotional time for Houston.

“We were 50 miles east of Oldenburg, Germany, headed for Berlin when we got the news. ‘It’s all over boys, come back’ came across the radio. The relief in those words is indescribable. I will never forget that for sure.”

Houston was one of five siblings in a family of seven to enlist. They all were fortunate to return home.

“I enlisted because I was patriotic and loved this country. My brothers were over there, I needed to go.”

In total, 359 Canadian soldiers were killed and more than 700 others were wounded or captured out of 21,400 Allied troops who landed on Juno Beach, which was one of five Normandy beaches involved in the D-Day invasion.

By the end of the Battle of Normandy, the Allies had suffered 209,000 casualties including more than 18,700 Canadians, 5,000 of whom lost their lives.

According to Veteran’s Affairs Canada estimates, about 41,000 Canadian war veterans were still living as of March 2018.

That number is rapidly decreasing each year and is of grave concern to Houston.

“What I most fear now is that what we did will be forgotten; that our jackets and medals will hang in a museum somewhere and no one will tell the stories. I guess that is my purpose, and I will talk till I can’t, I guess.”





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Post by Mojave Sat 29 Jun 2019, 8:21 am

A century after the Treaty of Versailles, its anniversary passes largely unobserved

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This file photo taken on January 19, 1919 shows British Prime Minister Lloyd George (L), Italian Council President Vittorio Orlando (2nd L), French council President Georges Clemenceau (2nd R) and U.S. President Woodrow Wilson attending the opening day of the Conference for Peace in Paris.






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Post by Ringo Tue 02 Jul 2019, 5:14 pm

The day 400 angry Canadian soldiers rioted in a peaceful English town

In 1919, enraged troops waiting to return to Canada went on a rampage. British bobby Sgt. Thomas Green did not survive the assault

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British policeman Station Sgt. Thomas Green, who was killed in Epsom, England, in 1919 during a riot by 400 Canadian soldiers, is seen in an undated photograph.Martin Knight/Postmedia News



National Post
John Roe
July 2, 2019


he Rifleman is a cozy if rather ordinary English pub south of London, but it serves a beer with an extraordinary story.

If you walk into the establishment and order a pint of Sergeant Green bitter, you’ll hear how the drink is named for a brave but luckless Metropolitan police officer who was killed when 400 angry Canadian soldiers went on a rampage here, in the suburban town of Epsom 100 years ago.

Amid whispers of a political coverup, you’ll hear how no one was ever held accountable for the crime even though a Canadian veteran later confessed to the deed. And then you’ll hear how it all started as a minor punch-up in this tiny pub — before exploding into one of the most brutal incidents Epsom has ever experienced.

It all started as a minor punch-up in this tiny pub

It wasn’t what anyone in England or Canada had expected just seven months after the end of the First World War was supposed to have restored peace, explains local historian Tim Richardson, who has extensively researched the infamous Epsom riot.

In June 1919, more than 4,000 Canadian soldiers were encamped on the nearby Epsom Downs, waiting with growing impatience for the ships that would carry them across the Atlantic and back home, Richardson says. The fighting, after all, had stopped more than seven months earlier. Why were they still here?

But on the night of June 17, a fairly routine fight broke between the Canadians and locals who were possibly annoyed the colonials had been courting their wives. Police responded. Two Canucks were duly escorted to the local jail to cool off in the cells.

It should have ended there, Richardson says, but it didn’t. Aroused by the news of their comrades’ arrest, more than 400 soldiers stormed out of the Canadian camp and — ignoring the pleas of their officers — invaded Epsom.

The enraged soldiers tore up paving stones and tossed them through windows. They smashed up the town’s Methodist church. But the soldiers’ fury was especially aimed at the police station across the street. Using a fencepost as a battering ram, the Canadians broke through the station’s door. They ripped out the windows of the cells. Then, they freed the two prisoners, but not before unsuccessfully trying to set the place on fire.

As for the police, they put up the best defence they could. But outnumbered 400 to 26, they lost the battle. An inspector, four sergeants and eight constables were injured. But the worst of the mob’s fury was meted out to Sgt. Thomas Green. As Green was desperately trying to end the violence, a soldier wielding an iron bar struck him and caved in his forehead. Green died a few hours later.

No one was convicted of killing Green

Several soldiers, including Cape Breton Islander Allan MacMaster, were arrested and stood trial. No one was convicted of killing Green. Relatively short sentences were handed out for rioting. Even those were commuted after a few weeks.

In his book about the riot, We Are Not Manslaughterers, historian Martin Knight suggests high-ranking British politicians might have pushed for the light sentences to avoid a hostile response in Canada. Edward, Prince of Wales, was soon to tour Canada, which was still part of the British Empire. British leaders wanted his reception to be warm and perhaps put a finger on the scales of justice to ensure it was. After all, these were remarkably unsettled times.

But the reverberations of the Epsom riots shook people’s lives for years. In 1929, Allan MacMaster turned himself in to police in Winnipeg and confessed to killing Sgt. Green. Strangely, and after contacting the British authorities, the police released MacMaster. Wracked by guilt, he took his own life 10 years later.

Despite what historians such as Richardson and Knight have uncovered, exactly why the riot happened is still debated. Perhaps the traumas of war and their lingering aftershocks explain why so many Canadians turned on the very people they had been defending just a short while before.

Some of the Canadians were convalescing from wounds or other health problems incurred during the war. Many of them carried the demons that entered their lives in the trenches. What they called “shell shock” we now know as post-traumatic stress disorder. All of them were frustrated that the powers that be — the same powers that had led them into the killing fields of the Western Front — had decreed they would go nowhere.

In Richardson’s eyes the upheaval of post-war Europe was also a definite, if often overlooked, factor in the riot. The Russian Revolution, violent civil strife in Germany and even the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 were to a greater or lesser degree byproducts of the disillusionment and despair cause by the war, he notes. Did that spirit of unrest and its accompanying hostility for authority infect the Canadians on Epsom Downs?

It wasn’t an isolated incident. In early March 1919, similar riots had erupted at the Kinmel Park military camp in North Wales. Five Canadian soldiers met violent deaths in that disturbance and dozens of other Canadians were injured.

While few Canadians are aware of these dark spots in their nation’s past, the people of Epsom and the surrounding Surrey countryside quietly paused last month to commemorate the tragic events of June 17, 1919. It was a trans-Atlantic affair where a Canadian descendant of the slain police officer heard words of regret and reconciliation from a Canadian descendant of the killer, read out at Green’s graveside.

Ric deMeulles is MacMaster’s grandson and lives in Sudbury, Ont. While he did not journey to Epsom this month he did write a long letter for the commemorations, stating that “when my grandfather led a violent mob against the police station he violated all the values we civilized people hold dear … And yet I feel pity for him in his later years when he lived a quiet life of self-torture.”

One of Sgt. Green’s descendants, David Kirkham, travelled from his home near Victoria, B.C., to England for the first time for the anniversary. And after learning about the Epsom riot and its aftermath, he concludes MacMaster “was a victim of war just as Thomas Green was a victim of war.”

In the peaceful Surrey countryside, however, where fresh flowers were recently laid on the grave of Sgt. Green and locals still raise a glass to him in The Rifleman, such discord seems a century and thousands of miles away.

Except, perhaps, for those who survey the fractious, polarized state of the world today and wonder how much we have learned in 100 years.

John Roe is a journalist who lives in Kitchener, Ont.





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Post by Zapper Wed 10 Jul 2019, 5:36 pm

Sicily invasion remembered

Published on: July 10, 2019

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Hon. Col. Ken Armstrong of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment salutes during Wednesday's service honouring soldiers who liberated Sicily from Axis forces during the Second World War. LUKE HENDRY/THE INTELLIGENCER





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Post by Enforcer Tue 16 Jul 2019, 6:11 pm

July 16, 2019

Last New Brunswick veteran of Devil’s Brigade dies at the age of 98

Arthur “Art” Pottle is the last known Brunswicker to have served in a special Second-World-War military unit. Tim Roszell has more.





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Post by Stanleyz Thu 18 Jul 2019, 9:21 am

Young historian aims to gather as many WWII stories as possible

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