Buried beyond history

[Howard]

Happy New Year, All!
I managed to visit the site, and took a few photos.


Above: the actual site of the explosion. Property boundary changes and road realignment places the actual site on private land, the memorial is erected on Commonwealth land directly opposite.


Above: The memorial stone placed directly opposite the original site.

A couple of more can be found Here

[maple_leaf_eh]

Originally Posted by Howard

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Above: The memorial stone placed directly opposite the original site.

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With your permission, I will share this with the Canadian Military Engineer Association. There was a similar catastrophic accident with Engineer trainees in British Columbia. The motto UBIQUE is ours too.

http://users.uniserve.com/~echo2/rem...ce/slesse.html

[Howard]

Originally Posted by maple_leaf_eh

With your permission, I will share this with the Canadian Military Engineer Association. There was a similar catastrophic accident with Engineer trainees in British Columbia. The motto UBIQUE is ours too.

Of course, Terry. Forward, copy, print... whatever
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[Robert Bergeron]

Thanks for posting this most saddening piece to our attention.

We shall forever remember them . They shall never grow old.

Thanks to our friends from the Commonwealth.

Excerp from Flander's fields, a war poem :

''... We lived, felt dawn,
saw sunset glow.
loved and were loved,
and now we lie in
Flander's FIELDS.

.. if ye break faith with us who die.
We shall not sleep, tough poppies grow,
In Flander's fields.


Lt col John McCrae

a Canadian officer of WW1