On 12 November 2017 a group of Dutch students from Saint Canisius high school in Tubbergen, The Netherlands, laid a wreath at the Holten Canadian War Cemetery on behalf of the CMEA. They represented a larger group of students who have been involved in the ongoing Give Every Stone a Story, Faces to Graves and Lest We Forget projects. These efforts aim to provide a story for every soldier buried in the cemetery and they work hard researching each Canadian life that…
Article by Bruce Deachman bdeachman@postmedia.com
Reprinted from the Ottawa Citizen, Published on November 10, 2017
To mark Canada’s sesquicentennial, the Citizen’s Bruce Deachman met and photographed 150 people in the Ottawa area, encouraging them to tell their stories that, combined, painted an intimate portrait of the region and the people who live, work and play here. The series, which was published daily leading up to Canada Day, was called…
Reprinted from The News, Article by Fram Dinshaw Fram.dinshaw@ngnews.ca Originally published Nov. 8, 2017, 5:11 p.m. ( http://www.ngnews.ca/news/new-glasgow-army-captain-diving-deep-159819/ )
An army captain from New Glasgow is diving into the frigid waters near Sydney as he carries out a survey of the underwater infrastructure at the Coast Guard College in Westmount.
Josh Bennett from the 4 Engineer Support Regiment’s combat dive team is working…
By LCol John Summerfield (Retd)
I was honoured to be selected as the Governor Generals Foot Guards Regimental Association representative for the VAC trip and, as there was no official Canadian Engineer representative, I assumed that role.
The official Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) Vimy 100th Anniversary delegation, totalled over 140 with delegates, caregivers and support staff. The delegates consisted of the VAC Minister (Honourable Kent Hehr), the Deputy…
From National Defence
November 1, 2017 – Ottawa – National Defence / Canadian Armed Forces
Approximately 500 personnel from the Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Navy and Royal Canadian Air Force will participate in Exercise NIHILO SAPPER 2017, a large construction engineering exercise taking place in various locations throughout Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, from November 1 to 20, 2017.
The exercise provides hands-on technical training to regular and reserve force military…
01 November 2017
Last Post entries acknowledge the service, military and civilian, each of these people made over their lives. Last Posts are published as they are completed, regardless of when the person died. Our listings are presented in the order in which we were informed.
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Col André D. Gauthier, OMM, CD (Ret'd)
26 October 2017
Spr William…
24 October 2017
Last Post entries acknowledge the service, military and civilian, each of these people made over their lives. Last Posts are published as they are completed, regardless of when the person died. Our listings are presented in the order in which we were informed.
The following Last Posts were published in the past week.
Lest we forget.
Fallen Comrade
Date of Death
Donald “Donnie” O’Donnell
21 October 2017
Kenneth Higham
08…
The museum at the Canadian Forces School of Military Engineering is currently experiencing a several year backlog in artifact processing and seven years of data updates to be entered into Canadian Forces Artifact Management System. To resolve this issue, an Request for Proposal (RFP) has been issued by CFSME for a contractor to process the backlogged items in order to bring the museum catalogue up to date. Propsals will be accepts by CFSME up to…
Reprinted for Halloween from a National Post article dated 11 April 2017
For decades, staff the Dunsfold Aerodrome in southern England talked of the dead Canadian beneath the runway
For decades, the staff at the Dunsfold Aerodrome in southern England talked of the dead Canadian beneath the runway. Clifford Davies heard the story when he started working there in the 1960s, 20 years after the Royal Canadian Engineers built the airfield during the Second World War.
The story,…
The Royal Canadian Legion’s president David Flannigan presented the symbolic First Poppy to Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada, at Rideau Hall in Ottawa today, 23 October 2017. Sharp eyes will notice her Aide-de-Camp is an RCE officer and Combat Diver. She is Captain Celine Best who has been working at Rideau Hall since April 2016.
