Presentation in English Guest Speaker – Gordon Cullen “Send It – Canada’s Snipers at War in Afghanistan” Gordon Cullen, co-author of Send It: Canada’s Snipers at War in Afghanistan will discuss the challenges and successes he encountered while both writing and publishing his book. This is an extraordinary opportunity to get a first-hand account of the challenges he faced, both in and out of uniform. GORD CULLEN, a 28-year veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces,…
Guest Speaker – Dr. Ross N Hebb “A Canadian Chaplain in the Great War – B J Murdoch’s, The Red Vineyard” When Canadians think of the First World War they seldom think of the 500 men who served as Chaplains. This is more than an oversight; it is a collective loss. Chaplains were older, more mature, better educated and experienced at the task of communicating concepts and experience to a diverse audience. As a result,…
Guest Speaker – Jean-Loup Gassend “Identification of a missing Second World War soldier” 19 year old Enno Strobel was reported missing in action in Southern France after an encounter with US troops in September 1944, and never heard of again… Untill 80 years later it was noted that there was a person named Eno Strubel buried in the German cemetery for south-eastern France. An investigation determined that Enno Strobel had probably been captured severely wounded…
Guest Speaker -Marianne Goodfellow “Horses, Howitzers, and Hymns” Upon his arrival in France in February of 1917, twenty-one-year-old Lieut. Warren Skey purchased a small Au Jour le Jour to record his day-to-day experiences as a gunner, who packed ammunition, loaded on horses, to the guns at the front. He was serving with the 48th Howitzer Battery of the 2nd Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery during World War One. Almost a hundred years later author Marianne Goodfellow…
Guest Speaker – Alice van Bekkum “A Tribute to Canadian Liberators – The Faces to Graves Project“ Here is your opportunity to learn about the Faces to Graves Project from one of its Founders – Alice van Bekkum. Located in the Netherlands, Ms. van Bekkum has gathered together a Network of those who have contributed to the life stories of the soldiers of the allied forces buried in Groesbeek to join her during this virtual presentation,…
Guest Speaker – Ruth Stanley “The Tin Hats” When we think of soldiers during the Second World War, we think of combat troops. Soldiers, in fact, took on many roles in support of the war effort. This is the story of a different type of soldier. The Canadian Military, recognizing the need to raise and maintain the morale of its soldiers, formed soldier-led entertainment units. Their job was to entertain the troops wherever they might…
Thursday, November 27th Guest Speaker – Michel Gravel Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Mérite During his talk, Mr Gravel will recount his extraordinary journey to identify the regimental aid posts of Captain Frederick Banting during the advance from Arras to Cambrai, September 1918. “Captain Fred Banting’s Field Hospital, 1918” To Register email the Friends atfcwm-amcg@friends-amis.org This Friends Forum is a great opportunity to meet one of Canada’s foremost historians on this topic.
Thursday, October 23rd, 2025. 7:00 – 9:00 pm EDT “Atrocity on the Atlantic: Attack on a Canadian Hospital Ship During The Great War” Guest Speaker – Nate Hendley On the evening of June 27, 1918, the Llandovery Castle — an unarmed, clearly marked hospital ship used by the Canadian military — was torpedoed off the Irish Coast by U-Boat 86, a German submarine. There were 258 people on board at the time: a British crew and 94 members…
Guest Speaker – Stephen J. ThorneSenior Staff Writer Legion Magazine “A Scribe with Soldiers in Afghanistan” In words and pictures, former war correspondent Stephen Thorne recounts his experiences and those of the soldiers he covered for The Canadian Press in the early days of the Afghanistan war, from their first combat assault since Korea to the first wounded and KIAs. Stephen J. Thorne is a writer, photographer, editor and broadcaster who has reported extensively from…
Guest Speaker – Dr. Vivian McAlister O.C. “Sir Andrew MacPhail100 Years Later” Thursday, May 29th, 20257:00 – 9:00 pm EDT Presentation in English One hundred years ago, the history of Canada’s medical services in the First World War was published. Medical services during the war had been challenged by several controversies. Although the single authored history added to the controversy, it has remained the reference text. Its author, Sir Andrew MacPhail, was the leading figure in…
“The British Channel Islands, WW2 and the Canadian Red Cross.The Impact and the Legacy” Uniquely, the Channel Islands were the only part of the British Isles occupied by the enemy during the Second World War. After the German’s lightening advance through Western Europe in the summer of 1940, Guernsey, Jersey and the smaller islands fell into Nazi hands without a fight. Five dark years of occupation followed, during which Islanders had to face and overcome many…
Thursday, March 20th, 2025 Guest Speaker Colonel Charles Davies (Retired)True North Strong? A Canadian Citizen’s Guide to National Defence aims to provide ordinary Canadians with a plain-language “guidebook” to help them make informed judgements about defence issues. It also offers insights that will help them assess how well (or not) the governments they elect are managing defence resources and policies. It does not try to influence how they look at the institution, or suggest what they should think…
