Short film on RFC VC winner Lanoe Hawker just released
Writer/Director Daniel Arbon has released his proof-of-concept short video on RFC pilot Lanoe Hawker, who won the first Victoria
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Videos
Through Their Eyes: A Graphic History of Hill 70 and Canada’s First World War
Historian and Illustrator Matthew Barrett talks about his new book, co-written with Robert Engen.
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Hill 60 and the 15th Battalion
COBWFA member and 48th Highland Regiment of Canada historian B/GEN (Ret) Greg Young talks about the 15th Battalion’s fight at
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The Royal Army Medical Corps – Advances in Care Helped Men Survive
The First World War is often criticized for being a time of little innovation, but there were major improvements in
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Horses in the First World War – very few were Cavalry mounts
Andy Robertshaw visited COBWFA on Oct. 22, 2023 to talk about the true role of horses in the Great War
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The Hunt for the Lost Battlefields of the Western Front
COBWFA member and historian Norm Christie narrates this archived video on The Hunt For The Lost Battlefields Of The Western
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Finding Human Remains is Part of Battlefield Archaeology
Historian, film consultant and builder of trenches, Andy Robertshaw visited our branch for the first in-person meeting since Covid and
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The heroic event that earned Alan McLeod a VC
Historian Roger Gunn spoke to branch members in an online presentation on May 28.
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The Hardest Battle: Arras 1918
From our April 30 Zoom meeting. William F. Stewart, Phd, describes the Canadian actions at the Second Battle of
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