Monthly Archives: February 2022

A Return To In-Person Events! See GEN David Petraeus This March

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An item from a fellow veterans organization in the Bay Area.

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Read the CWGC’s latest newsletter

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A newsletter from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Welcome to the CWGC’s latest newsletter.

Durban Stellawood Storm Repairs • A different kind of Valentine • European visitor centres reopened • Join the CWGF

Our work to restore Durban Stellawood Cemetery following storm damage has been completed by our team in South Africa. The team used the opportunity to make several important conservation and changes to the site. They used their specialist knowledge of Horticulture to implement a sustainable planting scheme full of indigenous plant and tree species appropriate for the local climate at Durban.
The works also included the installation of a borehole water supply and water irrigation system.

This, in combination with a drought resistant, indigenous horticultural planting scheme, will provide a sustainable, self sufficient water supply that will reduce the use of local municipality potable water, a precious resource for the local area.
Read more on the CWGC website
A different kind of Valentine

At this time of year thoughts for many turn towards a specific day in the middle of the month – Valentine’s Day. But did you know that there is a World War Two tank which carries the name Valentine? Scott Smith uncovers the story of this vehicle and some of the service personnel who served in them and are commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
CWGC European visitor centres reopenedFollowing our usual winter closures, our European visitor centres are ready to welcome you back to our sites. Both The CWGC Experience in Beaurains, France, and the Ieper Information Centre in Belgium are open. Both centres are great places to learn more about our work in Europe and around the world as well as discovering more information about our sites in France and Belgium.
Join the CWGF

Through education and outreach to arts and heritage projects, the CWGF (Commonwealth War Graves Foundation) engages people around the world to help keep the stories of the fallen alive. By Joining the CWGF you help our programme of activity whilst benefitting from exclusive membership offers.

Become a member today! 
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The Royal Navy’s war on trees

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An item from the Legion Magazine.

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Front Lines
The Royal Navy’s war on trees

The Royal Navy’s war on trees

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

For almost two centuries through the American Revolution, the War of 1812, wars with France, wars with Spain and dozens of other wars, conquests and explorations, Britannia ruled the waves thanks largely to the mighty oak.

At the zenith of Horatio Nelson’s navy in the late-1700s into the 1800s, it took about 4,000 oak trees, or up to 40 hectares of forest, to build a single 100-gun ship of the line. That’s equivalent to 3,750 city blocks of optimum-density oak forest for a vessel that, on average, sailed for 12 years.

 

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Military Milestones
The Battle over the fiords of Norway

Robert Shankland and the Victoria Cross

STORY BY SHARON ADAMS

Robert Shankland was a Canadian hero who served in both world wars and earned the Victoria Cross.

Shankland was born in Scotland but emigrated to Winnipeg in 1910. He boarded on Pine Street, later famous for being home to three Victoria Cross recipients, including Shankland, and renamed Valour Road in 1925.

 

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Webinar: Maya Goldenberg on Vaccine Hesitancy

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These webinars, which are offered in partnership with Dominion Command, may be of interest to some members.

Is There a War on Science?
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MAYA GOLDENBERG

Is There a War on Science?

February 16th, 7:00 PM ET
The webinar is FREE on Zoom.

Registration is required. Click HERE.
Using vaccine hesitancy as a case study, Maya Goldenberg argues against the common view that public controversy over scientific claims is part of a culture war on science. These controversies instead highlight a social fracturing that divides scientific institutions from the public. Goldenberg presents the alternative view that vaccine hesitancy signals a crisis of trust that invites different thinking about the nature of science, its relationships to the public, and what effective public health outreach should entail.
UPCOMING WEBINARS

17 February | Guelph Military Lecture Series
Matthew Wiseman
“Atomic Soldiers: The Canadian Armed Services and Cold War Radiation Exposure”
Click HERE for More Information

17 March | Guelph Military Lecture Series
David Borys
“Civilians at the Sharp End: Civil Affairs in Northwest Europe, 1944–45”
Click HERE for More Information

30 March | Speaker Series
Lianne Leddy
“Cold War Colonialism”
Register HERE
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Click here to listen to the latest episode of On War & Society: Oh What A Visual War with Beatriz Pichel.

On War & Society features authors discussing their research, the challenges associated with doing history, and life ‘behind the book.’
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