The day dawned cold at the National War Memorial on the morning of the 25th of April – it was -6 with the wind chill at 5:30 in the morning. It was the 100th Anniversary of Anzac Day, the day the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZACs) stormed the beach on the Gallipoli Peninsula…
Today the Korean Embassy and the Korean Veterans Association, Chapter #7, held a ceremony to remember the Battle of Kapyong in Korea on April 23-25, 1951. The battle was pivotal in that it allowed the retreating South Korean forces to orderly move through the Kapyong Valley and it stemmed the Chinese advance when an Australian…
Once again the Defence Attachés’ Hockey team, a.k.a. the Lameducks, girded their loins for battle with the DFL hockey team at the University of Ottawa Arena. Although the DFL team was vastly outnumbered, it was a closely contested match, the score being 4-4 at the end of regulation time. The match was decided in an…
Today opened to cold weather and cloudy skies with the threat of rain/snow. It was -6 degrees with the windchill and more reminiscent of Remembrance Day in November than early April (although Remembrance Day last year was lovely – +13 degrees). Notwithstanding, today was the 98th anniversary of the Canadian attack on Vimy Ridge in…