answers to "lieutenant mcmuffin" (or megan). twenty something college registrar from nova scotia. anglophile with a touch of hibernophilia. aspiring writer. should've been born earlier. fond of history, literature, music, cinema, hockey, and beverages that are warm.
this blog is a little less loquacious and perhaps a bit more succinct.
The National War Memorial (also known as The Response) is a tall granite cenotaph with acreted bronze sculptures, that stands in Confederation Square, Ottawa, and serves as the federal war memorial for Canada. (x)
Parade’s End will be a five-part miniseries set during World War I, written by Oscar winner Tom Stoppard (!), directed by Generation Kill’s Susanna White, and co-produced by HBO and the BBC. It’s based off the series of novels of the same name by Ford Madox Ford.
Benedict Cumberbatch is blowing up (figuratively).
A German machine-gun emplacement of reinforced concrete on the crest of Vimy Ridge, and the Canadians who seized it.
The Battle of Vimy Ridge began 94 years ago at 5:30 a.m. Easter Monday, April 9, 1917.
“SNAPPY SOLDIER” Frank Buckles (pictured l. in his 1917 enlistment photo) died at the age of 110, almost three years after becoming the last surviving American WWI veteran. Of his service photo, Buckles once said “I was a snappy soldier.” (Photos: AP via the New York Daily News)
The ‘Hello Girls’ were a group of bilingual female switchboard operators who were sworn into the US Army Signal Corps in Tours, France during World War I.
Arriving in late 1917, the ‘Hello Girls’ were the answer to General Pershing’s nation-wide call for bilingual telephone-switchboard operators. It was called an “Emergency Appeal” and specifically requested that women be sworn into the US Army Signal Corps.
Pershing stated more than once that he wanted women because they had the patience and perseverance to do arduous, detailed work that men couldn’t.
Canadians of the 29th Infantry Battalion advance across No Man’s Land through the German barbed wire during the Battle of Vimy Ridge, April 1917. Most soldiers are armed with their Lee Enfield rifles, but the soldier in the middle carries a Lewis machine-gun on his shoulder.
