Just so everyone doesn’t think that the only thing I photograph are remembrance ceremonies, I thought I’d share a couple of pictures from a recent shoot I did for Xcalibur Smart Mapping who have their headquarters in Madrid, Spain, but also have offices in 13 other countries including Ottawa in Canada. In Ottawa they fly…
To see the pictures from the ceremony, CLICK HERE: D-Day. The 6th of June, 1944. The Day that was the start of the end of WWII. Eighty years ago this mass undertaking, the largest seaborne invasion in history, known as Operation Neptune (the entire Normandy Campaign was known as Operation Overlord), started in Northern France…
On April 1st, 1924, the air elements of the Canadian military became the Royal Canadian Air Force reporting to the Chief of the General Staff, the head of the Canadian Militia (Army) at the time. It wouldn’t be until 1930 that the RCAF would become a fully independent element and report directly to the Minister…
To see all the pictures from this event, CLICK HERE: When one mentions “D-Day”, no further explanation is required as the day and its meaning is ubiquitous and requires no explanation. Everyone knows that on June 6th, 1944, the Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, opening up the second front of the war…
On the 8th of May, 1945, the surrender of the German Army came into effect and the European theatre of war was finished after six long years. Ukraine has taken that date to be their date of Remembrance of all the people who died, either by war, atrocities, executions, the Holocaust, bombings, and bloody battles…
Today the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands remembered those Dutch who have fallen in wars at a Remembrance Day ceremony held at the National Military Cemetery in Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa. The day was forecast for rain but it turned out to be a sunny day with a light breeze and a temperature…
To see all the pictures from the 109th ANZAC Day ceremony, CLICK HERE: On 25th April, 1916, the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZACs) stormed the beach on the Gallipoli Peninsula to try and take the Dardenelles Strait from the Ottoman forces (now Turkey). It was an eight month long battle which, after the…
Today (23rd April, 2024) the Korean Embassy and the Korean Veterans Association, Chapter #7, held a ceremony to remember the 73rd anniversary of 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…
In the First, Second, and Korean Wars, Canadian soldiers were bolstered by a small contingent of individuals from many of the Latin-American countries. They came without request and without demands, only wanting to do their part in the fight for freedom from oppression. They made their own way to Canada, joined and fought with our…
Thirty years ago, the genocide of between 800,000 to 1,000,000 Rwandans, mostly ethnic Tutsis with moderate Hutus, were massacred by the Hutu-based government. Today (7th April, 2024) a ceremony commemorating the 30th anniversary of that event was held at the Reconciliation Monument in Ottawa to remember those killed so that it hopefully never occurs again….