Subject Matter Expert 18th Battalion CEF, I hope!
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On Dec. 6, 1917 at 8:45 a.m., the Imo and Mont-Blanc (which was packed with explosives) collided in Halifax Harbour.
At 9:05 a.m., the Mont-Blanc exploded. The 2.9 kiloton blast levelled most of Halifax, killed 1,700 and injured 9,000.
This is the story.
📸 LAC
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At 9:05 a.m., the Mont-Blanc exploded. The 2.9 kiloton blast levelled most of Halifax, killed 1,700 and injured 9,000.
This is the story.
📸 LAC
🧵 1/12
December 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
On Dec. 6, 1917 at 8:45 a.m., the Imo and Mont-Blanc (which was packed with explosives) collided in Halifax Harbour.
At 9:05 a.m., the Mont-Blanc exploded. The 2.9 kiloton blast levelled most of Halifax, killed 1,700 and injured 9,000.
This is the story.
📸 LAC
🧵 1/12
At 9:05 a.m., the Mont-Blanc exploded. The 2.9 kiloton blast levelled most of Halifax, killed 1,700 and injured 9,000.
This is the story.
📸 LAC
🧵 1/12
#WW1 #servicerecord #Canada #History After reviewing thousands of CEF service files I have never seen a personal expression of graffiti. This is one record that has one for Sergeant Ernest Rispin, Military Medal, reg. no. 53503.
December 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
#WW1 #servicerecord #Canada #History After reviewing thousands of CEF service files I have never seen a personal expression of graffiti. This is one record that has one for Sergeant Ernest Rispin, Military Medal, reg. no. 53503.
#timcook #history #Canada
The Canadian War Museum is hosting a live and remote celebration of his life and legacy.
Full information in the link below.
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The Canadian War Museum is hosting a live and remote celebration of his life and legacy.
Full information in the link below.
www.warmuseum.ca/events/dr-ti...
Dr. Tim Cook – A celebration of his life and legacy | Canadian War Museum
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December 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
#timcook #history #Canada
The Canadian War Museum is hosting a live and remote celebration of his life and legacy.
Full information in the link below.
www.warmuseum.ca/events/dr-ti...
The Canadian War Museum is hosting a live and remote celebration of his life and legacy.
Full information in the link below.
www.warmuseum.ca/events/dr-ti...
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Do we need a Bluesky version of the Shell Shocked Soldier thread? Asking for me.
Ivor Castle, Canadian troops dressing wounded in a trench, September 15, Archives of Ontario, I0004766.
Ivor Castle, Canadian troops dressing wounded in a trench, September 15, Archives of Ontario, I0004766.
November 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Do we need a Bluesky version of the Shell Shocked Soldier thread? Asking for me.
Ivor Castle, Canadian troops dressing wounded in a trench, September 15, Archives of Ontario, I0004766.
Ivor Castle, Canadian troops dressing wounded in a trench, September 15, Archives of Ontario, I0004766.
A post about an Indigenous soldier to mark Indigenous Veterans Day.
#INDIGENOUS #veterans #Canada #ww1
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#INDIGENOUS #veterans #Canada #ww1
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“Love for liberty and for you is all that keeps our pluck. ” A Letter to a Priest.
Via Operation Picture Me. Wiarton Echo. February 14, 1917. Near the end of January 1917, a 24-year-old soldier from Cape Croker[i] wrote a letter to his parish priest. He was not an exceptional sol…
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November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A post about an Indigenous soldier to mark Indigenous Veterans Day.
#INDIGENOUS #veterans #Canada #ww1
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#INDIGENOUS #veterans #Canada #ww1
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November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Sitting here with Tim Cook's book open on my lap when I find out that he is gone. When I met him he said he'd read my book and signed his to me from one historian to another, he a highly prolific, brilliant, and decorated PhD in military history, me a rank amateur. RIP, Tim you were so kind!🥺
October 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Sitting here with Tim Cook's book open on my lap when I find out that he is gone. When I met him he said he'd read my book and signed his to me from one historian to another, he a highly prolific, brilliant, and decorated PhD in military history, me a rank amateur. RIP, Tim you were so kind!🥺
Really? History by the pedantic and wholly uninformed? Or does White Supremacy Trump democracy?
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Columbus Day, 2025
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Today our Nation honors the legendary Christopher Columbus -- the original American hero,
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October 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Really? History by the pedantic and wholly uninformed? Or does White Supremacy Trump democracy?
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
#tank #WW1 #Canada #History The last World War 1 Battle with German Tanks was fought with the 18th Battalion's participation.
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Battling Tanks at Iwuy: The last German use of tanks in World War 1
German A7V disabled by trench. Apparently captured by New Zealand forces in the Iwuy area during the action of October 11, 1918. Iwuy is a small commune in France, South East of Vimy and North East…
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October 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
#tank #WW1 #Canada #History The last World War 1 Battle with German Tanks was fought with the 18th Battalion's participation.
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October 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
September 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I give presentations about how to research and interpret CEF service files. Do you have a group that would be interested in this? DM me.
August 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I give presentations about how to research and interpret CEF service files. Do you have a group that would be interested in this? DM me.
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Long overdue tidy-up and clarification of the 1917 renumbering of the Territorial Force infantry. #ww1 #genealogy see www.longlongtrail.co.uk/soldiers/a-s...
Renumbering the Territorial Force Infantry in 1917 - The Long, Long Trail
Introduction This change of numbering of infantrymen was promulgated in Army Council Instruction (ACI) 2414 of 1916, published on 23 December 1916. […]
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August 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Long overdue tidy-up and clarification of the 1917 renumbering of the Territorial Force infantry. #ww1 #genealogy see www.longlongtrail.co.uk/soldiers/a-s...
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Hi America,
This isn’t being built for the next guy.
Trump ain’t planning on leaving.
This isn’t being built for the next guy.
Trump ain’t planning on leaving.
After at least 15 years of talking about it, President Trump is building a ballroom at the White House. Work will begin this coming September, with a price tag of $200 million, the White House says.
Trump's dream of building a ballroom at the White House is becoming a reality
After at least 15 years of talking about it, President Trump is building a ballroom at the White House. Work will begin this September, with a price tag of $200 million, the White House says.
n.pr
August 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Hi America,
This isn’t being built for the next guy.
Trump ain’t planning on leaving.
This isn’t being built for the next guy.
Trump ain’t planning on leaving.
New blog article. #History #WW1 #GreatWar #brothersinarms #bROTHERS
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Discovering the Taylor Brothers: Inscribed Memories
In a churchyard in north-eastern France, there are inscriptions left by soldiers from the First World War. English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian. One person has bee…
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July 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
New blog article. #History #WW1 #GreatWar #brothersinarms #bROTHERS
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A graveside visit prompts revisiting the service file of a man who well earned a Military Medal and Military Cross.
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Not Forgotten in Tillsonburg
On 18 July 2025 Lieutenant Raymond Earl Rouse MM MC grave was visited. This man served with the 18th Battalion, earning two decorations for valour, one as an enlisted man, and one as an officer. Hi…
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July 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
A graveside visit prompts revisiting the service file of a man who well earned a Military Medal and Military Cross.
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Get it?
July 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Get it?
Many times the specific events involving a soldier's death is unknown to history. A reporter in Ann Arbor, Michigan interviews a Sergeant who gives insight into the passing of a brave 18th Battalion lad.
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He Kissed His Mother Before He Died: The Death of Private Douglas
The Circumstances of Death Card for Private Douglas, reg. no. 54153 starkly relates that he “Killed in Action” in the vicinity of Courcelette on 16 September 1916 at the 18th Battalion’s first enga…
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July 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Many times the specific events involving a soldier's death is unknown to history. A reporter in Ann Arbor, Michigan interviews a Sergeant who gives insight into the passing of a brave 18th Battalion lad.
18thbattalioncef.blog/2025/07/05/h...
18thbattalioncef.blog/2025/07/05/h...
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Jul 1917 Canadian war photographer Ivor Castle or possibly William Rider-Rider take this photo of a magpie that has been with this gunner since the Battle of the Somme. The photo ID is O-1528 and according to @carlajeanstokes.bsky.social O-1500 is rough cut off between the 2 photographers
July 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Jul 1917 Canadian war photographer Ivor Castle or possibly William Rider-Rider take this photo of a magpie that has been with this gunner since the Battle of the Somme. The photo ID is O-1528 and according to @carlajeanstokes.bsky.social O-1500 is rough cut off between the 2 photographers
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I gave a presentation June 27 at the Naval Museum of Halifax re the torpedoing of Canadian hospital ship Llandovery Castle by a German sub on this date in World War One.
My book re this war crime at:
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Barnes and Noble tinyurl.com/bdzjxnsu
Indigo tinyurl.com/yck4rua2
My book re this war crime at:
Amazon tinyurl.com/4z34saa3
Barnes and Noble tinyurl.com/bdzjxnsu
Indigo tinyurl.com/yck4rua2
June 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I gave a presentation June 27 at the Naval Museum of Halifax re the torpedoing of Canadian hospital ship Llandovery Castle by a German sub on this date in World War One.
My book re this war crime at:
Amazon tinyurl.com/4z34saa3
Barnes and Noble tinyurl.com/bdzjxnsu
Indigo tinyurl.com/yck4rua2
My book re this war crime at:
Amazon tinyurl.com/4z34saa3
Barnes and Noble tinyurl.com/bdzjxnsu
Indigo tinyurl.com/yck4rua2
Presentation I am giving at the Paisley Royal Canadian Legion Branch 295 this following Saturday (June 21). Let me know if you plan to attend.
June 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Presentation I am giving at the Paisley Royal Canadian Legion Branch 295 this following Saturday (June 21). Let me know if you plan to attend.