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Filip Konowal, VC: the Rebirth of a Canadian Hero
Canadian Military History Volume 5 Issue 2 Article 6 1996 Filip Konowal, VC: The Rebirth of a Canadian Hero Ron Sorobey Canadian War Museum Follow this and additional works at: https://scholars.wlu.ca/cmh Part of the Military History Commons Recommended Citation Sorobey, Ron "Filip Konowal, VC: The Rebirth of a Canadian Hero." Canadian Military History 5, 2 (1996) This Canadian War Museum is brought to you for free and open access by Scholars Commons @ Laurier. It has been accepted for inclusion in Canadian Military History by an authorized editor of Scholars Commons @ Laurier. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Sorobey: Filip Konowal, VC: The Rebirth of a Canadian Hero Filip Konowal, VC The Rebirth of a Canadian Hero RonSorobey Filip Konowal as painted by the English artist Ambrose McEvoy after the former's return from France and his receipt of the Victoria Cross in 191 7. Note the VC ribbon above his left pocket, and the two wound stripes visible on his left cuff. (Canadian War Museum (CWM) CN 8430) 44 Published by Scholars Commons @ Laurier, 1996 1 Canadian Military History, Vol. 5 [1996], Iss. 2, Art. 6 ore than most people's, Filip other forestry related activities. The prospect M Konowal's life was a complex mixture of of well paying jobs lured Konowal and many hope, frustration, disappointment, and glory. other original members of the local Ottawa On an August day in 1917, this corporal from Ukrainian community to the region. However, Ottawa proved to be one the world's bravest this apparent good fortune was short lived. -
Canada's Victoria Cross
Canada’s Victoria Cross Governor General Gouverneur général of Canada du Canada Pro Valore: Canada’s Victoria Cross 1 For more information, contact: The Chancellery of Honours Office of the Secretary to the Governor General Rideau Hall 1 Sussex Drive Ottawa, ON K1A 0A1 www.gg.ca 1-800-465-6890 Directorate of Honours and Recognition National Defence Headquarters 101 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, ON K1A 0K2 www.forces.gc.ca 1-877-741-8332 Art Direction ADM(PA) DPAPS CS08-0032 Introduction At first glance, the Victoria Cross does not appear to be an impressive decoration. Uniformly dark brown in colour, matte in finish, with a plain crimson ribbon, it pales in comparison to more colourful honours or awards in the British or Canadian Honours Systems. Yet, to reach such a conclusion would be unfortunate. Part of the esteem—even reverence—with which the Victoria Cross is held is due to its simplicity and the idea that a supreme, often fatal, act of gallantry does not require a complicated or flamboyant insignia. A simple, strong and understated design pays greater tribute. More than 1 300 Victoria Crosses have been awarded to the sailors, soldiers and airmen of British Imperial and, later, Commonwealth nations, contributing significantly to the military heritage of these countries. In truth, the impact of the award has an even greater reach given that some of the recipients were sons of other nations who enlisted with a country in the British Empire or Commonwealth and performed an act of conspicuous Pro Valore: Canada’s Victoria Cross 5 bravery. -
BOOK Reviews
B O O K r EVIEWS TrIQuET’S CrOSS: deployed with his regiment to the United Kingdom. Thereafter, a STuDy IN MILITARY hErOISM his leadership potential was also recognized, and, by early by John Macfarlane 1941, he had been commissioned as an officer. Montreal: Mcgill-Queen’s university Press, 2009 By 1943, the Canadian Army was in Action in Sicily 250 pages, $34.95 (hardcover) and Italy, and Triquet earned a reputation as an officer who ISBN 978-0-7735-3577-0 led from the front. In December of that year, his company reviewed by Peter J. Williams was chosen to lead a battalion attack to capture Casa Berardi in order to facilitate the Allied advance. German resistance mong the sculptures of 14 heroes in Canadian was extremely stiff, and, in the midst of the fighting, Triquet military history, adjacent to the National War uttered the words which were to be forever associated with Memorial in Ottawa, is one of Paul Triquet, his actions and those of his men: “We are surrounded, the or, more correctly, Brigadier (ret’d) Paul enemy is in front, behind and at our sides-the safest place is Triquet, VC, CD. As a captain and company on the objective.” Triquet and his men eventually took the Acommander in the Royal 22e Régiment (R22eR) fighting in objective. In the process, his company was reduced from 81 Italy during the Second World War, he to 14 men. Triquet did not escape won the Victoria Cross, then, as now, entirely unscathed from the action, the Commonwealth’s highest award and, in speaking later of the events of for valour. -
Trial by Fire: Major-General Christopher Vokes at the Battles of the Moro River and Ortona, December 1943
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Wilfrid Laurier University Canadian Military History Volume 16 Issue 3 Article 3 2007 Trial by Fire: Major-General Christopher Vokes at the Battles of the Moro River and Ortona, December 1943 G.C. Case Canadian Armed Forces, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholars.wlu.ca/cmh Part of the Military History Commons Recommended Citation Case, G.C. (2007) "Trial by Fire: Major-General Christopher Vokes at the Battles of the Moro River and Ortona, December 1943," Canadian Military History: Vol. 16 : Iss. 3 , Article 3. Available at: https://scholars.wlu.ca/cmh/vol16/iss3/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Scholars Commons @ Laurier. It has been accepted for inclusion in Canadian Military History by an authorized editor of Scholars Commons @ Laurier. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Case: Trial by Fire Trial by Fire Major-General Christopher Vokes at the Battles of the Moro River and Ortona, December 1943 G.C. Case uring the month of December 1943, the 1st stretch Germany’s military resources to the DCanadian Infantry Division (1st Cdn Div) breaking point, especially following Operation underwent the most severe trial yet experienced Overlord, the forthcoming cross-Channel by Canadian troops in Italy, when it crossed the invasion of Europe. Despite these lofty goals, Moro River, engaged two German divisions in however, it would be a strictly limited effort. So rapid succession and, after a week of vicious as not to jeopardize the success of Overlord, it street fighting, took the town of Ortona. -
Teaching Guide Table of Contents
THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION TEACHING GUIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 2 DEFINED BY MILITARY HISTORY 3 ARMED FORCES BEFORE 1914 4 ARMED FORCES OF THE FIRST AND SECOND WORLD WARS 6 ARMED FORCES OF THE KOREAN WAR 10 CANADA AND THE GULF WAR 12 PEACEKEEPING 13 THE COLD WAR 15 AFGHANISTAN 17 ON THE HOME FRONT 19 STATISTICALLY SPEAKING 21 SIGNIFICANT Dates IN Canada’S Military History 22 THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION 23 CANADA AND THE VICTORIA CROSS 26 SYMBOLS OF COMMEMORATION 27 THE Poppy CAMPAIGN 31 Poppy FUND Q&A 34 STORIES, SONGS AND POEMS 35 SCHOOL ACTIVITIES 42 NATIONAL LITERARY AND POSTER CONTESTS 47 Royal CANADIAN Legion’S PILGRIMAGE OF Remembrance 50 THE LEGION IS HERE TO HELP 51 WEBSITES OF INTEREST 52 PHOTO CREDITS 53 OTHER RESOURCES D-DAY POSTER 100TH ANNIVersary NAVY poster CANADA AND THE VICTORIA CROSS POSTER (PART 1) CANADA AND THE VICTORIA CROSS POSTER (PART 2) THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION • TEACHING GUIDE 1 introduction This Guide to Remembrance has been created by The In addition to the information available in the guide, Royal Canadian Legion to assist primary and secondary your local branch of The Royal Canadian Legion school teachers to foster the Tradition of Remembrance can be of much assistance. There are members at the Tamongst Canada’s youth. branch who would be more than willing to share their time and experiences. It is not the intention that Remembrance be a daily practice, but there is a need to ensure that today’s The Legion’s Web Site is www.Legion.ca which youth have a fundamental understanding of what their provides Remembrance material, amplifies Legion great-grandparents, grandparents and in some cases activities, contains a Branch Locator and links to their fathers and mothers were called upon to do to other sites presenting both Remembrance and defend the freedom and democracy that we enjoy general information. -
Bcs 1944 "Zombie" Protests Against Overseas Conscription
BCS 1944 "ZOMBIE" PROTESTS AGAINST OVERSEAS CONSCRIPTION PETERA. RUSSELL he climax of Canada's Second World War conscription crisis came in November 1944, when Prime Minister W.L.M. King Tordered 16,000 home defence conscripts overseas. Canada seemed about to replay the First World War's crisis of French versus English. However, the first large demonstrations against conscription came, not in Quebec, but in British Columbia; not from French Canadians, but from English-speaking home defence troops stationed at Vernon. Press reports of the large scale of that demonstration sparked half a dozen further home defence soldiers' demonstrations across British Columbia. One of these, at Terrace, became an outright mutiny. Within hours of the Vernon demonstration, British Columbia's Pacific Command sought to contradict the press claim that "nearly 1,000 men" had marched through the city's streets shouting anti-conscription slogans. As well as issuing its own version to the press, military command held an immediate inquiry into the Vernon march and the press story that it sought to refute. By contrast, in Terrace, the high command uncritically passed on to its superiors the most exaggerated rumours of an armed mutiny. The explanation for the difference between the senior officers' actions probably lay in their perceptions of the troops' ethnic origins and these troops' earlier behaviour while stationed at Vernon in the spring of 1944. The home defence soldiers at Terrace were assumed to be French Canadians or Central Europeans. Resistance there confirmed the officers' prejudices concerning who was and who was not loyal. At Vernon the troops were seen as "English" and, therefore, loyal - only awaiting a political decision to send them overseas. -
Chronicles of Courage –
Chronicles of Courage Canada’s Victoria Cross Winners Compiled by Michael Braham Capt (N) (Ret’d) Table of Contents Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................................. 2 Foreword ............................................................................................................................................................. 4 Origin of the Victoria Cross .......................................................................................................................... 6 Victoria Cross Facts ....................................................................................................................................... 10 Unusual Victoria Crosses ............................................................................................................................. 13 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................... 15 Lieutenant Wallace Lloyd Algie, VC ......................................................................................................... 16 Major William George Barker, VC, MC**, DSO* ................................................................................ 18 Corporal Colin Fraser Barron, VC ............................................................................................................. 24 Lieutenant Edward Donald Bellew, VC .................................................................................................. -
The Unknown Soldier in the 21St Century: War Commemoration in Contemporary Canadian Cultural Production
Western University Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository 7-17-2017 12:00 AM The Unknown Soldier in the 21st Century: War Commemoration in Contemporary Canadian Cultural Production Andrew Edward Lubowitz The University of Western Ontario Supervisor Dr. Manina Jones The University of Western Ontario Graduate Program in English A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the equirr ements for the degree in Doctor of Philosophy © Andrew Edward Lubowitz 2017 Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd Part of the Literature in English, North America Commons Recommended Citation Lubowitz, Andrew Edward, "The Unknown Soldier in the 21st Century: War Commemoration in Contemporary Canadian Cultural Production" (2017). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 4875. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/4875 This Dissertation/Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship@Western. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository by an authorized administrator of Scholarship@Western. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Abstract Over the past two decades, expressions of Canadian national identity in cultural production have become increasingly militarized. This is particularly noticeable since the late 1990s in the commemorative works that have been created, renovated, or re-inscribed in Canada or in important Canadian international sites such as the Vimy Memorial in France. An integral component to this militarization is the paradoxical figure of the Unknown Soldier, both a man and a symbol, known and unknown, individualized and universal. Despite its origins in Europe after the First World War, the Unknown Soldier Memorial tradition has been reinvigorated in a Canadian context in the twenty-first century resulting in an elevation of white masculine heroism while curtailing criticism of military praxis. -
OUR STORIES in STONE PART 1 in Ottawa, We're So
OUR STORIES IN STONE PART 1 In Ottawa, we’re so accustomed to statues and memorials that we no longer see them. They are … Sites unseen CHRIS MIKULA, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN But Citizen writer ROBERT SIBLEY and photographer CHRIS MIKULA, left, stopped to take a closer look. Here are their impressions of our memorials — and what they tell us about ourselves and the soul of the city. Stopping among statues Monuments are stories in stone and bronze that reflect who we are and where we came from. Here in Ottawa, we’re so used to these memorials that we no longer see them. But say you made time to stop? Where would you go? And where would it take you? ROBERT SIBLEY finds out on a hunt for the soul of the city CHRIS MIKULA , THE OTTAWA CITIZEN Simply walking by Sir Galahad will be harder to do once you know the story of the brave and selfless Henry Albert Harper. verybody ignores Sir Galahad. For one, to stop at Sir Galahad, a statue flip-flops take pictures of each other be- an hour I’ve been parked on a dedicated a century ago to the memory neath the famous cross-country runner’s Ebench at the corner of Metcalfe of Henry Albert Harper that occupies bronze legs, natural and artificial. A mid- and Wellington streets, watching early prime real estate on Wellington in front dle-aged couple in shorts and sun hats morning strollers, office workers and of a Parliament Hill gate. follow suit. Another young couple reads tourists. -
The Canadian Army Newsreels (Filmed and Produced by the Canadian Army Film Unit)
The War Amps presents The Canadian Army Newsreels (Filmed and Produced by The Canadian Army Film Unit) The War Amps The War Amps presents The Canadian Army Newsreels (Filmed and Produced by The Canadian Army Film Unit) The War Amps, in cooperation with Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and veterans of the Canadian Army Film Unit (CAFU), is making this complete set of Canadian Army Newsreels available to the public for the first time, as part of its Military Heritage Series.This collection holds an important place in Canada’s history. This booklet contains content descriptions for the 106 newsreels. Please note that the accuracy and spelling of some names cannot be verified. The descriptions are intended as reference only. The booklet is also available as a PDF on The War Amps Web site at waramps.ca along with information, video and photos of the Canadian Army Film Unit. Currently held in the vaults of Library and Archives Canada, the newsreels remain one of the most requested items from the motion picture library. Those wishing to obtain newsreel footage for purposes other than research or private study may request permission from LAC at www.collectionscanada.gc.ca. The War Amps extends special thanks to CAFU veterans Norman C. Quick and Charles N. (Chuck) Ross and to LAC Film Conservator Dale Gervais for their invaluable support in making this project possible. page 1 page 2 Canadian Army Newsreel No. 1 1.1 Defence Minister Visits Troops Colonel James Layton Ralston, Lieutenant General Kenneth Stuart, and C.D. Howe arrive by bomber in England and are greeted by High Commissioner Vincent Massey; 2nd Unit parade; Ralston chats with soldiers, sees an artillery course demonstration, visits a hospital; visits the Scotland Forestry Corps; inspects 1st Division 3rd Brigade, West Nova Scotias; 9th Highland Brigade gives a demonstration; 5th Division 85th Cape Breton Highlanders; 4th Division. -
New Men in the Line an Assessment of Reinforcements to the 48Th Highlanders in Italy, January-October 1944
Canadian Military History Volume 21 Issue 3 Article 4 2015 New Men in the Line An Assessment of Reinforcements to the 48th Highlanders in Italy, January-October 1944 Andrew Brown Follow this and additional works at: https://scholars.wlu.ca/cmh Part of the Military History Commons Recommended Citation Andrew Brown "New Men in the Line An Assessment of Reinforcements to the 48th Highlanders in Italy, January-October 1944." Canadian Military History 21, 3 (2015) This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Scholars Commons @ Laurier. It has been accepted for inclusion in Canadian Military History by an authorized editor of Scholars Commons @ Laurier. For more information, please contact [email protected]. : New Men in the Line An Assessment of Reinforcements to the 48th Highlanders in Italy, January-October 1944 New Men in the Line An Assessment of Reinforcements to the 48th Highlanders in Italy, January-October 1944 Andrew Brown “Alex told me that the hundred and forty soldiers following us had arrived in England from Canada only a month earlier. Inadequately trained and unprepared for what awaited them, they had been prematurely shipped to Italy to transfuse our wasted regiment. Marching behind us in their clean, new uniforms, they joked with one another, stared curiously at the debris of war, and sang the brave and foolish songs they had learned in Canada.”1 Farley Mowat, And No Birds Sang. necdotal evidence, such as the visited Canadian units in Italy, the Aabove quotation, suggests that Abstract: Anecdotal evidence, regimental sergeant major (RSM) of the Canadian Army rushed poorly consisting mainly of soldiers’ the 48th Highlanders complained testimony and widely accepted as trained infantry reinforcements to fact, suggests that Canadian infantry that only seven out of 72 men in a battle during the Second World reinforcements in the Second World recent reinforcement draft were fully War. -
“I Didn't Have Time to Find the English Words”: the Korean War's Role In
“I didn’t have time to find the English words”: The Korean War’s Role in the Evolution of Bilingualism in the Canadian Armed Forces Julien Labrosse A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the MA degree in History Department of History Faculty of Arts University of Ottawa © Julien Labrosse, Ottawa, Canada, 2016 ii Table of Contents Abstract iii Acknowledgements iv Acronyms vi Introduction – Forgotten War, Forgotten History?: The Korean War and 1 Canadian Military Historiography Chapter 1 – “The wrong war, at the wrong time, at the wrong place, and with 26 the wrong enemy”: Canada, the Korean War, and the Royal 22e Régiment Chapter 2 – Passive Bilingualism: The Canadian Military Establishment and 52 the French Language, 1946-1954 Chapter 3 - “Moé l’histoire de français pi d’anglais moé ça m’rentre pas dans 87 tête pantoute”: French Canadians, English Canadians, and Linguistic Duality in Korea Conclusion – Je me souviens de la guerre oubliée: Why the Korean War 139 Matters Bibliography 152 iii Abstract This thesis explores the impact of the Korean War on the evolution of the role of the French language in the Canadian military between 1946 and 1954. It explains how the Korean War acted as both a catalyst for a more accommodating stance towards the French language in the Canadian Armed Forces, and an immediate impediment to the implementation of such changes. Particularly, this thesis explores the conflict that emerged between various officials in the Department of National Defence concerning the place that should be made for the French language, and how best to recruit more French Canadians.