Starting today, the University of Manitoba is providing a free, public conference dedicated to the study of the Great Wars (given the confluence of anniversaries of WWI (100) start of WWII (75) and end of Cold War (25)) and their ongoing impact on Canadian society. Continue reading
On Saturday, 25th April, 2015, the centenary of ANZAC Day will be commemorated across Commonwealth countries around the world. The Down Under Club of Winnipeg will be marking this event with members, special guests and inviting the public to remember http://bestacnedrug.com this occasion with us at the Western Canada Aviation Museum.
This event will be given the ceremonial respect it deserves with social and historical activities to follow. We look forward to seeing you there. Mark your calendars.
Poppies on the Roll of Honour. Photograph taken by Kerry Alchin. PAIU2014/128.14
[Read the original of this text at: https://www.awm.gov.au/commemoration/customs/poppies/]
The Flanders poppy has long been a part of Remembrance Day, the ritual that marks the Armistice of 11 November 1918, and is also increasingly being used as part of Anzac Day observances. During the First World War, red poppies were among the first plants to spring up in the devastated battlefields of northern France and Belgium. In soldiers’ folklore, the vivid red of the poppy came from the blood of their comrades soaking the ground. Continue reading
The May 2014 issue of The Southern Yarn is available for you to download in PDF form. Among our usual features is a report on the the ANZAC ceremony and club evening, which included a special member’s 90th birthday celebration.
This coming Saturday, April 26, 2014, members and guests of the DUCW will commemorate ANZAC Day at the Scandinavian Cultural Centre at 764 Erin starting at 6:00 pm. We hope that as many of you as possible will be there for our ceremony and potluck dinner (details in the April Yarn). Please take some time beforehand to visit the many websites and newspapers in Australia and New Zealand where some detailed and moving tributes to the ANZACs are available – NZ history online, ANZAC Tour, 100 Years of ANZAC, and 100 years of untold stories from ANZAC to Afghanistan.