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About this blog

Note: This blog was formerly maintained under topic Canadian Field Artillery - 61st Battery 14th Brigade, begun by Steve Bodie on 20 April 2009.

The last post in the former topic was on 12 February 2018.

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19 July 1918

5th Canadian Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade Canadian Divisional Artillery   61st Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery   60th Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery   19 Jul 18 MIKAN 3403387 Canadian graves in cemetery near Albert. July, 1918   19 Jul 18 MIKAN 3403388 Canadian graves at Aux Rietz Corner   19 Jul 18 MIKAN 3403389 Grave of Major G.V. Nelson, 18th Can. Infantry Battalion. July, 1918   © IWM Q 6861
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August 23rd Photos

All Imperial War Museum, Alexander Turnbull Library, and Australian War Memorial photos captured on Friday, 23rd August, 1918. © IWM (Q 6987) Battle of Albert. Ruins of Meaulte taken by the 5th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment (12th Division), on 22 August 1918 (23 August). The pontoons were left behind by the British in March.     © IWM (Q 6988) Battle of Albert. German shell bursting on a building in Meaulte on the day after its capture, 23 August 1918.  
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Canadian Corps Championships Winners & Photo Opportunity Politicians Part 2

100 YEARS AGO TODAY:  Canadian Corps Championships Winners & Photo Opportunity Politicians Part 2   MIKAN 3404909 Imperial Troops passing General Mewburn, Canadian Minister of Militia. Resting on roadside are Canadians. 2nd July, 1918.   MIKAN 3404910 General Mewburn, Minister of Militia, interested in the Mascot of a Canadian Scottish Battalion. 2nd July, 1918.   MIKAN 3404911 General Mewburn talking to a man of a Canadian Infantry Btn. 2nd July, 1918.
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August 12th Photos: Imperial War Museum

© IWM Q 9238 King George V visits the III Corps headquarters at St. Gratien, 12 August 1918. This was the British Corps which formed part of the Fourth Army in the Battle of Amiens.   © IWM Q 9239 King George V inspecting the Guard of Honour on his visit to the III Corps headquarters at St. Gratien, 12 August 1918. This was the British Corps which formed part of the Fourth Army in the Battle of Amiens.   © IWM Q 9240 King George V and General John Monash inspecting troops of
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4 May 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   61st Field Battery   Lt. Virtue   Scottish pipers passing through Esquelbecq, 4 May 1918. © IWM (Q 60808)  
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Tuesday, 8th October 1918 - Canada's Hundred Days - 62

Library and Archives Canada   61st Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery   55th Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery   Lieutenant Abner Gladstone Virtue - 61st Fld Bty   © IWM (Q 12121) Sopwith Camel biplane of No. 203 Squadron after a forced landing at Noyelles-sur-Escaut, 8 October 1918.   © IWM (Q 72920) Lieutenant Colonel B. C. Goss of the American Chemical War Service starting a smoke screen near Beaucamp, 8 October 1918.
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Monday, 12th August 1918 - Canada's Hundred Days - 5

Library and Archives Canada     5th Canadian Divisional Artillery     14th Brigade Canadian Divisional Artillery     61st Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery     Lt Virtue     60th Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery     Trench Mortar Battery     Gunner Herbert Irwin 41st Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery     Thomas Dinesen     MI
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August 11th Photos: Le Quesnel, Cassel, Liverpool, Sommacampagna

© IWM Q 6934 British and German stretcher-cases at a field dressing station in the open with an improvised covering of ground sheets held up by wiring staples. They are waiting for evacuating by ambulance. Note the vehicle of the British Sportsmen's Ambulance Fund. Le Quesnel, 11 August 1918.     © IWM Q 6935 British and German stretcher-cases out in the open awaiting evacuation from a field dressing station. Le Quesnel, 11 August 1918.     © IWM Q 6936 A surge
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August 9th Photos: Malard Wood, Chipilly Ridge

© IWM Q 48367 A new tractor of the 28th Division being used for hauling long range guns at St. Gilles, 9 August 1918.   © IWM Q 6922 British soldier examining captured German mortars. Malard Wood, 9 August 1918.   © IWM Q 6923 British soldier examining captured German mortars. Malard Wood, 9 August 1918.   © IWM Q 6924 Gunners of the Royal Horse Artillery RHA examining a captured German 77mm field gun and Maxim machine gun. Malard Wood, 9 August 1918.   ©
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Wednesday, 9th October 1918 - Canada's Hundred Days - 63

Library and Archives Canada   61st Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery   60th Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery   Lieutenant Abner Gladstone Virtue - 61st Fld Bty   Lt Col Coulson Norman Mitchell   There are well over 100 photos today captured on 9th October 1918. Please try to view them on my Facebook page. I will be posing three separate links today... 1. https://www.facebook.com/edward.walshe.566/posts/36
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19 June 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   61st Field Battery   19 Jun 18 MIKAN 3522153 Officers of 48th Battery, C.F.A. with one of their guns. June, 1918  
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12 May 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   61st Field Battery   Lt Virtue   MIKAN 3395369 Canadians washing ambulances near the lines. May, 1918   MIKAN 3395370 Canadian Artillery loading their limbers from a dump by the roadside. May, 1918   MIKAN 3395371 Unloading shells for Canadian Heavy Artillery at a dump. May, 1918   MIKAN 3395372 Unloading shells for Canadian Heavy Artillery at a dump. May, 1918   MIKAN
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Thursday, 14th November 1918 - Canada's Hundred Days - 99

100 YEARS AGO TODAY: Canada's Hundred Days - 99.   As Canada's Hundred Days is about to end, troops have already begun to march to assembly areas for the March to the Rhine - The Allied Occupation of Germany.  Formal ceremonies for the Canadian Corps are to be held in Grand Place, Mons tomorrow.  Allied POWs are released and begin to reach the former front lines, Thursday, 14th November 1918.   61st Field Battery, C.F.A., C.D.A., C.E.F.   Lt Virtue 61st Field Ba
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20 March 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   61st Field Battery They did?  Like the campfire scene in Blazing Saddles?   Lt A.G. Virtue   MIKAN 3522094 One of many shells which Heine puts over on to a Canadian Battery. In foreground are seen three Canadians interested in the wastage of 5.9s  
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6 March 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   61st Field Battery Lt A.G. Virtue No entry today 06 Mar 18 Q94318 American soldiers with captured German flame throwers at Menil-la-Tour 6 March 1918   06 Mar 18 MIKAN 3404873 Canadian Scottish on their way up the line. February, 1918   06 Mar 18 MIKAN 3404874 Nova Scotians returning to Camp after a game of baseball. February, 1918   06 Mar 18 MIKAN 3404875 Canadians in captu
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Wednesday, 16th October 1918 - Canada's Hundred Days - 70

Library and Archives Canada   61st Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery   Lieutenant Abner Gladstone Virtue - 61st Fld Bty   60th Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery   Today's photos are to be found on my FaceBook page: https://www.facebook.com/edward.walshe.566/posts/363909104356007    
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Saturday, 16th November 1918 - Canada's Hundred Days - 101

100 YEARS AGO TODAY: Canada's Hundred Days - 101.   Lt-Gen Sir Arthur Currie spends his day in the office planning for the advance to the German Frontier while the troops rest and clean up.  The instructions for Advance to German Frontier No. 1 are issued later in the day, Saturday, 16th November 1918.   61st Field Battery, C.F.A., C.D.A., C.E.F.   Lt Virtue 61st Field Battery No entry        
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Thursday, 8th August 1918 - Canada's Hundred Days

Library and Archives Canada   5th Canadian Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade Canadian Divisional Artillery   61st Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery D-Sub, 61st Field Battery gun position at 04h20 8th August 1918 The actual position was only 50 feet ahead, and on the horizon were the German lines. I still wonder if that slight depression is where the gun was.   Lt. A.G. Virtue   Trench Mortar Battery   60th F
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August 25th Photos: Imperial War Museum

© IWM (Q 7005) Battle of Albert. British soldier tending a wounded horse of the Royal Artillery at Bihucourt, 25 August 1918 (captured on 23 August).   © IWM (Q 7035) Second Battle of the Somme. An armoured car about to start on a reconnaissance near Biefvillers, 25 August 1918.   © IWM (Q 7036) Second Battle of the Somme. Armoured cars setting out on a reconnaissance near Biefvillers, 25 August 1918.   © IWM (Q 8257) Captain R Maude (Assistant Provost Marsh
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5 July 1918

5th Canadian Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   61st Field Battery   MIKAN 3405812 Canadian Corps Signal Officers. July, 1918   MIKAN 3405813 Canadian Corps Signal Officers. July, 1918  
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17 June 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   61st Field Battery   60th Field Battery - Gunner Bertram Cox   100 YEARS AGO TODAY:  MIKAN 3194336 Canadian Nurse giving her pet Nero cream. 17th June 1918.   100 YEARS AGO TODAY:  MIKAN 3384704 Boxing) Men of the Little Black Devils of Winnipeg watching two men of their battalion box. 17th June 1918.   100 YEARS AGO TODAY:  MIKAN 3384705 Boxing) Canadians watching boxing bout at a Divisi
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21 April 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   60th Field Battery   61st Field Battery   Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (b. 2 May 1892 – d. 21 April 1918)  
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Synopsis

100 years ago, my grandfather A/Bbdr Richard Francis Walshe and his comrades set acrossthe channel and their great adventure had truly begun. This post will chronicle his activity on a daily basis. I hope to be able to fill in the missing detailsfollowing their last war journal entry of 3 May 1919, while their Brigade was still in Orp-le-Grand, Belgium and continue to their arrival in Halifax.
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12 February 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   60th Field Battery - Betram Cox   61st Field Battery   12 Feb 18 MIKAN 3395356 Canadian Heavy [Howitzer] arriving at a Canadian Mobile Ordnance Workshop. February, 1918 12 Feb 18 MIKAN 3395357 Canadian Heavy [Howitzer] arriving at a Canadian Mobile Ordnance Workshop. February, 1918 12 Feb 18 MIKAN 3395358 Canadian Heavy [Howitzer] arriving at a Canadian Mobile Ordnance Workshop. February, 1918
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