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William Markle Pecover – On Being Bombed in Britain

November 11, 2009

In the second of this series honouring Remembrance Day, my Great Grandfather William Markle Pecover submitted a very angry piece to Winnipeg’s daily Free Press Evening Bulletin, forerunner of the Winnipeg Free Press, which published the story on Sept. 22, 1917.  Ramsgate hospital in Kent, on the English coast — where he was convalescing from [...]

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William Markle Pecover – Memory of Vimy Ridge

November 10, 2009

In Honour of Canadian Remembrance Day, which honours the Armistice of November 11, 1918 and the service of soldiers before and since that bloody war, I am republishing two excerpts from the collected memoirs of my Great Grandfather, a veteran of two world wars, and in particular Vimy Ridge.  William Markle Pecover died in 1986 [...]

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