The battlefield of St. Julien, Belgium, photographed in 1919 (O-4653/DND/LAC)

From the archives: Dead man appears to old comrade

STORY BY LEGION MAGAZINE

This story appeared in a June 1926 issue of The Legionary, the predecessor for Legion Magazine that celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. The piece has been left mostly as it was originally published, with only minor copy edits to correct typos or glaring omissions.

“Hello, Jack!”

“My God, Tom, I buried you in France – thought you were dead!”

“Not me, Jack; this is me here.”

And Guard John Reid at the Jail Farm, Langstaff, Ont., walking into the refectory for duty at dinner hour, a few days ago renewed his wartime friendship with Thomas Armstrong, a comrade he has been mourning since the sad day following the battle of St. Julien in the fateful spring of 1915.

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One of 430 Lancasters built at Victory Aircraft in Malton, Ont., the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum’s 81-year-old Mk. X is one of only two of the bombers flying today. The other is in Britain. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]

An armchair tour of Canada’s only airworthy Lancaster bomber, Part 2

STORY BY ALEX BOWERS

For 50 hours each year, the skies above Mount Hope near Hamilton, Ont., play host to a time capsule unlike any other. Its true uniqueness lies not in its make or model but in its spirit—in what, fundamentally, it symbolizes.

Only one other—sited an entire ocean away in Lincolnshire, England—bears any resemblance, at least as far as the clouds are concerned. Together, they’re titans, transatlantic feats of engineering and the last two airworthy Lancaster bombers in the world.

Of these, however, just one is Canadian.

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