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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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14 March 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   61st Field Battery   Lt A.G. Virtue   14 Mar 18 IWM Q78981 French troops by the ruined church at Port-sur-Seille, 14 March 1918  

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13 March 1918

5th Divisional Artillery     14th Brigade C.F.A.   61st Field Battery     Lt A.G. Virtue - No entry today   IWM Q8560 A fire-escape ladder leading up to an observation post in a tree at Cambrin, 13 March 1918  

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12 March 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   61st Field Battery   Lt A.G. Virtue   12 Mar 18 Nursing Sister Ida I Kealy CAMC died 12 march 1918 from penumonia   Grave marker – Grave marker inscription at Bramshott St. Mary Churchyard image taken 10 June 2014   Grave marker – Grave marker at Bramshott St. Mary Churchyard image taken 10 June 2014   MIKAN 3406012 Officers of the 13th Canadian Battalion in France. February, 19

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11 March 1918

5th Divisional Artillery https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/52cc/7fpqt8rbmbisio76g.jpg   14th Brigade C.F.A. https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/67a1/3mujyrdz0c1a2wi6g.jpg https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/67a1/3mujyrdz0c1a2wi6g.jpg   61st Field Battery Lt A.G. Virtue - No entry today 11 Mar 18 MIKAN 3405523 Officers of the 5th C.M.R.s in France. February, 1918   11 Mar 18 MIKAN 3405811 Canadian Signallers repairing wire in communication trench. Fe

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10 March 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A. https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/042a/njen0cnq05lrvz96g.jpg   61st Field Battery https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/56b7/ttcgyur6b6gcc7w6g.jpg   Lt A.G. Virtue https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/0389/vgy6hms31g62nzo6g.jpg   10 Mar 18 MIKAN 3405424 Canadian Engineers digging a sap. February, 1918   10 Mar 18 MIKAN 3405471 Canadian Artillerymen getting their gun into position. February, 1918

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9 March 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   61st Field Battery My grandfather admitted to once having had a dose of "a little gas" which had sent him down for a while. I still remember hearing his words..."a little gas." This may have been the occasion.   Lt A.G. Virtue - No diary entry today   IWM Q78666 Ruined houses on the Boulevard de Strasbourg at Arras, 9 March 1918   MIKAN 3405294 Canadians in captured German light

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8 March 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   61st Field Battery   Écourt-Saint-Quentin 8th March 1918.   08 Mar 18 MIKAN 3404879 Chinese working a stone crusher. February, 1918   08 Mar 18 MIKAN 3405293 Canadians in captured German light railroad trucks, returning after a bathing parade. February, 1918  

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7 March 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   61st Field Battery   07 Mar 18 Wladimir-Wolynskij Ingenieur Assist.Rauch. 7 III.1918.   07 Mar 18 MIKAN 3404876 Officers of B Mess, Canadian Corps Headquarters. February, 1918   07 Mar 18 MIKAN 3404877 Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig inspecting the Offices of the Canadian Corps Headquarters. February, 1918   07 Mar 18 MIKAN 3404878 Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig with General Sir Arthu

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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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5 March 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   61st Field Battery   Lt A.G. Virtue   05 Mar 18 Leichenbegängnis des Lt.Hofbauer I.R.4. und des techn.Assist.Hosack des Militär Geolog.Institutes am 5.März.1918   IWM Q52806 Count Ottokar Czernin, the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister, and Richard von Kuhlmann, the German Foreign Secretary, after the conclusion of the Preliminary Treaty with Romania at Buftea on 5 March 1918.   05

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4 March 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   55th Battery - Major Victor John Kent service file   61st Field Battery   Lt A.G. Virtue   MIKAN 3403939 Remains of a large family tomb in cemetery near Lens. March, 1918.   MIKAN 3403940 Remains of a large family tomb in cemetery near Lens. March, 1918.   MIKAN 3403941 Remains of a large family tomb in cemetery near Lens. March, 1918.   MIKAN 3403942 Rema

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3 March 1918

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk The newly formed Bolshevik government signs peace treaty with the Central Powers today.   5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   61st Field Battery   03 Mar 18 MIKAN 3395365 Unloading shells for Canadian Heavy Artillery March 1918   03 Mar 18 MIKAN 3396806 Canadians taking free coffee at Y.M.C.A. Hut on their way back from the line. March, 1918.   03 Mar 18 MIKAN 3403364 A crucifix in a graveyar

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2 March 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   61st Field Battery   Lt. A.G. Virtue   02 Mar 1918 British soldiers writing on slabs of fallen stone in Arras Cathedral, 2 March 1918  

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1 March 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.     55th Field Battery - Driver John Stanislaus McTague   61st Field Battery   Lt. A.G. Virtue   IWM 7992 German reserves marching forward along the Albert road, March 1918  

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28 February 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   61st Field Battery 28th FEBRUARY - Thursday.  Observation not good.  Inpsected alternative position at M.17.C.42-50 and found things in none too good a shape.   28 Feb 18 MIKAN 3404117 Ablain St. Nazaire. The ruins of its Church Notre Dame de Lirette from Carency [France] February, 1918 28 Feb 18 MIKAN 3404118 Ablain St. Nazaire. The ruins of its Church Notre Dame de Lirette from Carency [France] February, 1

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27 February 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   61st Field Battery   Lt. A.G. Virtue   Honorary Captain Herbert James Latimer     Nominal Roll of Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men 15th Brigade CFA Embarkation from Halifax, Nova Scotia September 13th, 1916 Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Thomas Ogilvie Captain Herbert Austin Brows Captain Jordan Mott Fowler Captain John Hebdes Gilles

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26 February 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   61st Field Battery     Lt. A.G. Virtue   26 Feb 18 MIKAN 3403936 Ruins of a tiny village on outskirts of Lens in the grip of winter. February, 1918 26 Feb 18 MIKAN 3403935 Badly shelled railway and mine head in a village held by the Canadians. February, 1918 26 Feb 18 MIKAN 3403934 Main street of Lievin. February, 1918 26 Feb 18 MIKAN 3403933 The remains of a German concrete, iron and pitprop r

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25 February 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   61st Field Battery     Lt A.G. Virtue   25 Feb 18 MIKAN 3403932 A Railway Siding near Lens. February, 1918 25 Feb 18 MIKAN 3403931 The ruins of a very fine Chateau in the Canadian lines near Lens. February, 1918 25 Feb 18 MIKAN 3403930 All that remains of a Church in the Canadian lines near Lens. February, 1918 25 Feb 18 MIKAN 3403929 All that remains of a Church in the Canadian line

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24 February 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   55th Battery Driver John Stanislaus McTague   61st Field Battery   24 Feb 18 MIKAN 3397884 A German Whizz-bang gun captured by Canadians near Farbus. February, 1918 24 Feb 18 MIKAN 3397885 A German Whizz-bang gun captured by Canadians near Farbus. February, 1918 24 Feb 18 MIKAN 3403149 A wounded Boche captured during a raid. February, 1918 24 Feb 18 MIKAN 3403150 German prisoner interrogated by I

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23 February 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.     61st Field Battery   23 Feb 18 MIKAN 3396922 The Pipe Band of the 16th Canadian Infantry Battalion in France. February, 1918   23 Feb 18 MIKAN 3397883 Heine O.P. put out of action by Canadian Gunners. February, 1918  

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22 February 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   61st Field Battery   22 Feb 18 MIKAN 3522095 Sir Douglas Haig inspects 11th Infantry Brigade at Houdain. February, 1918 22 Feb 18 MIKAN 3522096 Sir Douglas Haig inspects 102nd Battalion at Houdain. February, 1918 22 Feb 18 MIKAN 3522097 Sir Douglas Haig inspects 11th Infantry Brigade at Houdain. February, 1918 22 Feb 18 MIKAN 3522098 Sir Douglas Haig inspects 11th Infantry Brigade at Houdain. February, 1918

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21 February 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   61st Field Battery   21 Feb 18 MIKAN 3396791 The Canadian Daily Record arrives at a dug-out. February, 1918 21 Feb 18 MIKAN 3396792 Canadians interested in Canadian Daily Record in trenches near Lens. February, 1918 21 Feb 18 MIKAN 3396793 Canadians interested in Canadian Daily Record in trenches near Lens. February, 1918 21 Feb 18 MIKAN 3396794 Canadians interested in Canadian Daily Record in trenches nea

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20 February 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   61st Field Battery   20 Feb 18 MIKAN 3396802 Canadians who have been relieved from the line cleaning their clothes, etc., in reserve line. February, 1918   20 Feb 18 MIKAN 3396803 Canadians performing their toilet in reserve line. February, 1918  

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19 February 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   61st Field Battery     19 Feb 18 MIKAN 3395964 Boche two-seater plane brought down by Canadian Machine Gunners. February, 1918   19 Feb 18 MIKAN 3396790 Canadian buying a hat at a second hand store near Lens. February, 1918  

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18 February 1918

5th Divisional Artillery   14th Brigade C.F.A.   61st Field Battery   18 Feb 18 MIKAN 3395655 Three little shacks, bearing the name of the smallest village in Wales. February, 1918   18 Feb 18 MIKAN 3395880 O.C. and Sisters of the 2nd Canadian Stationary Hospital, France. February, 1918  

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