Navy.ca's Fallen Comrades

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old

The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.

- Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, Naval Historian 1911

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Military Word Of The Day

FST

field surgical team

Today in Military History

August 18

1917:

VC won by A/Major Okill Massey Learmouth MC, 2nd Battalion, CEF, Hill 70, France (posthumous)

1917:

VC won by Sgt Frederick Hobson, 20th Battalion, CEF, Hill 70, France (posthumous)

1944:

VC won by Major David Vivian Currie, 29th Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment (The South Alberta Regiment), St. Lambert-sur-Dives, France

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