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The Conference of Defence Associations (CDA) has announced that Garth Pritchard has been selected as the recipient of the Ross Munro Media Award for 2003. Out of the large and excellent list of nominees the selection committee has also concluded that Matthew Fisher (Global…

Sapper Archie Thompson, Canada's oldest First World War veteran, died 2 Sept 2003 at the age of 107 at his cottage at Old Woman's River, near Stokes Bay, ON.

Born in Ireland in 1857, he emigrated to Canada in 1912. Archie was drafted into the Royal Engineers and…

By Shannon H. Pennington for freelance journal submission, Victoria B.C.

A unique group of Firefighter veterans of the Canadian Fire Service will be flying to the United Kingdom to attend church on…

It was on the 2 May, 2003 that 14 AES, Bridgewater, NS celebrated the 100^th Anniversary of the Canadian Military Engineers (CME). On this occasion, 14 AES Honorary Colonel J. James Kinley (ONS) honoured us with his presence.

The celebrations started early in…