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The Archive

2023

May 2nd | The Hunt for the Lost Battlefields of the Western Front

2022

November 24th | Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War
November 24th | Chaplain’s body washed up on the shore of Ushant island
November 10th | Finding Human Remains is Part of Battlefield Archaeology
October 18th | Andy Robertshaw Returning to COBWFA for a double presentation
October 18th | Juno Beach Centre Saved
June 1st | The heroic event that earned Alan McLeod a VC
May 1st | The Hardest Battle: Arras 1918
April 8th | Vimy – before the Somme 1916
March 28th | From the Western Front Assn… Failure on 2 September 1918 and the Flawed Canadian Official History | Bill Stewart
March 15th | Ukrainian Canadian Victoria Cross Winner Filip Konowal
February 18th | “He Proved Himself A Man”
February 7th | Canadians in Iraq / Iran 1918-1919
February 5th | YouTube Videos

2021

December 23rd | The Spirit of Christmas Past
October 29th | The Final Flight of Manfred von Richthofen – From the Air
October 2nd | New Videos on the 15th Bn CEF at Mount Sorrel, the Somme
June 4th | Battle of Festubert – 15th Battalion 19-31 May 1915
May 25th | Siegfried Sassoon: Liverpool’s War Poet?
April 25th | 106th Anniversary of the Battle of 2nd Ypres
April 4th | Fly The Battlefields

2020

December 8th | Andy Robertshaw and the Filming of 1917
November 20th | Tim Cook speaks about his latest book
October 4th | 15th Battalion – Battle of Hill 70
October 3rd | 102nd anniversary of the Battle of The Canal du Nord
September 2nd | 102 years later – The Crow’s Nest & D-Q Line
August 27th | Greetings Members & Friends of the COBWFA – Fall 2020
August 2nd | The Legacy of WW2 – Tim Cook
July 7th | Penguin Pans Piper
April 26th | Quick notes on Mapping
February 8th | Latest Updates

2019

December 1st | Support Memorial Flag Poles for Canadian Troops at Kinmel Park Wales

2018

August 29th | Black Forestry Men of Nova Scotia 2nd Construction Bn Get Memorial in old French Village
June 4th | House of Commons votes to honour Sam Sharpe in foyer of Centre Block
May 13th | Norm Christie calls on remembrance community to band together
April 29th | William F. Stewart, April 28, 2018 meeting
February 1st | Unsung heroes of the Medical Services from Montreal
January 7th | Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Company 1919

2017

September 27th | Can you help ID this man’s unit?
September 7th | Maps of the Western Front – what can you discover ?
March 2nd | Private John Joseph Belfontaine Regimental Number 111030
January 22nd | Captain Alec Jack, 54th Battalion CEF, 1967 interviews on Vimy Ridge
January 6th | Soldier’s identity discovered through research for The Maple Leaf

2016

October 10th | Rudyard Kipling and the Great War – with a Canadian Flavour
October 1st | Building the Leadership of the CEF
August 22nd | Letters to Marie
June 27th | Navigating the Western Front Today British Library Trench Maps in Google Earth
April 30th | Vimy Ridge Map
April 16th | The Men of Newcastle
April 16th | Early WW1 Publications – 1st Contingent names and more
April 16th | Bertie Nackogie #1006931 (originally on COBWFA 2012)
April 16th | Letters from Joe Sproule – Canadian Machine Gun Corps
April 16th | In Memoriam: Soldiers of the 58th Bn CEF
April 14th | Mapping Vimy Ridge Battle Site
April 9th | Vimy Ridge Map
February 15th | Rear Area Camps at Vimy Ridge
January 31st | Justin Trudeau – Harjit Sajjan – WW1 Scholars? Who knew?
January 2nd | Canadians and the Battle of Messines

2015

November 29th | Etaples and the Canadian Base
November 28th | The first night in France
November 28th | Updates for Nov
October 12th | World War I Retrospective: The Challenges of the Eastern Front
October 12th | World War I and the Legacy of Chemical Weapons
October 12th | World War I Retrospective: The Battle of Basra
September 4th | THE BBC VIDEOS
July 22nd | CNN Looks at the Somme and finds Canadians!!
July 11th | Let’s Help Norm Find 44 Lost Canadian Scottish Soldiers!
July 1st | A Day Out at Vimy – June 2015- La Chaudière Cemetery
June 24th | The Red Zone
April 23rd | The 2nd Battle of Ypres Remembered
April 14th | Air power and the battle for Vimy Ridge by Maj Bill March
March 28th | Where is THERE? Remembering The 1st Canadian Division at Neuve Chapelle 10 – 13 March 1915
March 16th | Battalion Paymaster Lead the Charge at Kitchener`s Wood
March 11th | WIPERS TIMES – The Movie
March 11th | The Battle of St. Julien by Kate Colquhoun and much more!
March 9th | FRED FISHER VC at St Julien April 1915 by Bill Smy
March 9th | Artillery Positions at Ypres 4 PM 22 April 1915
March 8th | Ypres April 1915 – a brief look back
March 6th | YPRES – APRIL 1915
March 6th | BBC ANIMATED MAP of WW1 – Where it happened
March 2nd | Persian Adventure – LCol Warden of the 102nd Battalion and Dunsterforce
February 19th | Finding Old Battle Fields
February 19th | Past Meetings
February 19th | Valour Road – 3 VC Winners from Winnipeg
February 19th | The Lost Sketchbooks
February 19th | John McCrae Statue Project
February 18th | Old Bill and Capt Bruce Bairnsfather
February 18th | Tracing Ronnie Mackinnon
February 18th | Rehabbing the Vimy Gun
February 18th | Odds and Ends
February 18th | Officer Training – Bexhill on Sea
February 18th | Research Sources
February 13th | Siegfried Sassoon meets the Canadians
February 13th | What goes on at COWBFA meetings?
February 13th | The Big Trek of 1915
February 13th | PODCAST – Canada`s 100 Days
February 13th | Where did the CEF Actions take place
February 13th | Canadian Soldiers – Biography
February 13th | Canadian Pilots
February 12th | Tracing Canadian Locations in France and Belgium
February 12th | Cecil Annis of Malvern Collegiate Institute Remembered
February 11th | A HUNDRED YEARS AGO
February 11th | Battles of the CEF
February 6th | Menin Gate Lions at National War Museum
February 1st | Grief’s geography: Interactive map of Toronto’s First World War dead
January 31st | Technology from the Western Front
January 25th | Tell Your WW1 Relative`s story
January 23rd | Books to Read on WW1
January 22nd | Selected University Theses on WW1 and Canada
January 22nd | Memorial to men of Malvern Collegiate Institute
January 22nd | Cpl William Metcalfe – VC
January 22nd | Valour Road – Three Winnipeg VC Winners on the same street
January 22nd | GUARDING NIAGARA: by LCol (ret) Bill Smy
January 22nd | Protection of Monuments to WW1 Service Men
January 22nd | Western Front Raiders
January 22nd | Frontline – With the 8th Canadian Field Ambulance
January 22nd | England has Declared War! 1914 Recruiting in Toronto
January 20th | Tracing Lost Soldiers
January 20th | Major Cyril Burton North, A Canadian Engineer at Ypres
January 20th | Significant Incident
January 20th | Into the future with Word Press!

2013

March 7th | The Maple Leaf – Winter 2013