Army Archives - Legion Magazine https://legionmagazine.com/category/canadian-military-history-in-perspective/army/ Mon, 10 Jun 2024 12:14:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://legionmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/cropped-favicon-LM-32x32.jpg Army Archives - Legion Magazine https://legionmagazine.com/category/canadian-military-history-in-perspective/army/ 32 32 The Greatest Landing https://legionmagazine.com/the-greatest-landing/ https://legionmagazine.com/the-greatest-landing/#respond Thu, 06 Jun 2024 15:31:24 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=91395 Reliving the role Canada played on D-Day

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/the-greatest-landing/feed/ 0 The miracle of Valcartier https://legionmagazine.com/the-miracle-of-valcartier/ https://legionmagazine.com/the-miracle-of-valcartier/#respond Mon, 27 May 2024 14:26:50 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=91216 A training camp for the Canadian Expeditionary Force emerged seemingly overnight

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/the-miracle-of-valcartier/feed/ 0 Bring us the goddamned Canadian https://legionmagazine.com/bring-us-the-goddamned-canadian/ https://legionmagazine.com/bring-us-the-goddamned-canadian/#respond Fri, 05 Jan 2024 15:57:14 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=89233 How Canadian officers seconded to the British Army under the Canloan program fought for their comrades—and respect

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/bring-us-the-goddamned-canadian/feed/ 0 The bridges of Caen https://legionmagazine.com/the-bridges-of-caen/ https://legionmagazine.com/the-bridges-of-caen/#respond Thu, 09 Mar 2023 14:18:31 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=85147 How George Gilbert Reynolds and the 23rd Field Company, Royal Canadian Engineers, played an important role in the liberation of Europe.

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/the-bridges-of-caen/feed/ 0 The Switch https://legionmagazine.com/the-switch/ https://legionmagazine.com/the-switch/#respond Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:21:48 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=83917 Canada’s military and armed forces around the world are taking steps to fight climate change by reducing their emissions It is, as the old saying goes, hard to drain the swamp when you’re up to your neck in alligators.  That is the metaphorical challenge facing NATO members, including Canada, in maintaining a robust defence against …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/the-switch/feed/ 0 The Great Experiment https://legionmagazine.com/the-great-experiment/ https://legionmagazine.com/the-great-experiment/#respond Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:41:44 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=82079 How the first Battle of Cambrai changed warfare forever For three years into late-1917, Allied and German forces had been locked in a deadly stalemate, ensconced in trench works meandering more than 750 kilometres from the North Sea through parts of Belgium, France and Germany to the Swiss Alps. Over the course of the Great …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/the-great-experiment/feed/ 0 Constructive dismissal https://legionmagazine.com/constructive-dismissal/ https://legionmagazine.com/constructive-dismissal/#respond Fri, 29 Jul 2022 13:24:14 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=78118 8 myths of Black service in the Canadian Expeditionary Force—and the actual realities they faced  In the fall of 1915, Lieutenant-Colonel Walter H. Allen, the white commander of the 106th Overseas Battalion (Nova Scotia Rifles), met with a Black Baptist minister, Reverend William White, and made a promise he couldn’t keep. “I told him if he would …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/constructive-dismissal/feed/ 0 Operation Overflow https://legionmagazine.com/operation-overflow/ https://legionmagazine.com/operation-overflow/#comments Tue, 24 May 2022 12:44:01 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=76787 Canada’s military faced its first modern mission in response to a domestic natural disaster during the 1948 once-in-a-century flood in southern B.C. It is virtually a given that the Canadian Armed Forces will be on hand when disaster strikes at home. Whether it’s wildfires, crippling ice storms or massive flooding, all arms may be called …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/operation-overflow/feed/ 1 “We are grateful to them, but let them go home” https://legionmagazine.com/we-are-grateful-to-them-but-let-them-go-home/ https://legionmagazine.com/we-are-grateful-to-them-but-let-them-go-home/#respond Tue, 10 May 2022 12:57:24 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=76746 Canadian forces nearly overstayed their welcome after liberating the Netherlands in 1945 There is no doubt the Canadian liberation of the Netherlands was hailed by the Dutch. The small country had been terrorized, brutalized and starved by the Nazis for nearly five years. Their men had been shipped to Germany to work in factories, while …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/we-are-grateful-to-them-but-let-them-go-home/feed/ 0 Bolting for the Baltic https://legionmagazine.com/bolting-for-the-baltic/ https://legionmagazine.com/bolting-for-the-baltic/#respond Tue, 03 May 2022 18:14:10 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=76759 How a Canadian battalion’s mad dash to northern Germany at the end of the war stopped Soviet advances toward the West Wismar, located on Germany’s Baltic coast, holds a fascinating but little-known place in Canadian Second World War history. It’s where Canadian troops first encountered the Red Army—and effectively blocked a Soviet advance into Denmark.  …

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