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Alex Bowers

@bowerswrites.bsky.social
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Staff writer for Legion Magazine | Telling Canada's wartime stories | Brit living in N.S., Canada | Married to Annie | buymeacoffee.com/alexbowers 🏳️‍🌈

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with historian and diver Joseph Frey, who, in 2025, led an expedition to the wreck site of HMCS Canada. The former RCN flagship survived the Great War and now rests in the Florida Keys. legionmagazine.com/an-armchair-... 📸 Courtesy Joseph Frey.
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My latest Legion Magazine "Artifact" piece details the story of the Nurses’ Memorial. Though the monument commemorates 2,845 Canadian nursing sisters, its iconography is complex to say the least. Read more here: legionmagazine.com/the-nurses-m... 📸 Canadian Nurses Association/LAC/e003525007
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with historian and diver Joseph Frey, who, in 2025, led an expedition to the wreck site of HMCS Canada. The former RCN flagship survived the Great War and now rests in the Florida Keys. legionmagazine.com/an-armchair-... 📸 Courtesy Joseph Frey.
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My latest Legion Magazine "Artifact" piece details the story of the Nurses’ Memorial. Though the monument commemorates 2,845 Canadian nursing sisters, its iconography is complex to say the least. Read more here: legionmagazine.com/the-nurses-m... 📸 Canadian Nurses Association/LAC/e003525007
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
(1/5) The September/October issue of Legion Magazine is out now, including four of my latest articles. Here's what you can expect...
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
(1/5) The September/October issue of Legion Magazine is out now, including four of my latest articles. Here's what you can expect...
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My latest "Military Health Matters" column for Legion Magazine explores how a Canadian organization specializing in chronic pain is helping veterans find relief. legionmagazine.com/under-pressu... 📸 Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with author Karen Farrington about Allied PoWs - including Canadians - who escaped through Italy during the Second World War. Her new book, The Great Italian Breakout, tells their story in full. legionmagazine.com/author-karen... 📸 Icon Books
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"When Canadian captives Raymond Sherk and Don McLarty saw an opportunity to escape Camp 78, a prisoner-of-war facility in the central Italian region of Abruzzo, they wasted little time."
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with author Karen Farrington about Allied PoWs - including Canadians - who escaped through Italy during the Second World War. Her new book, The Great Italian Breakout, tells their story in full. legionmagazine.com/author-karen... 📸 Icon Books
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with author Matthew Walthert on the life of hockey star and Great War soldier Scotty Davidson. From ice rinks to the Western Front to his mysterious death in 1915, it's all discussed here. legionmagazine.com/author-matth... 📸 Courtesy Peter Carew.
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Today is Star Trek Day, so I thought I'd share my recent Legion Magazine article on Canadian actor James Doohan. You may know him for playing "Scotty" in the original series, but he also stormed Juno Beach on June 6, 1944! legionmagazine.com/historian-cr...
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Historian Craig Baird talks Star Trek’s James Doohan and Juno Beach - Legion Magazine
“Beam me up, Scotty.” Those famous words are associated with Star Trek actor James Doohan—words, it must be noted, never once uttered (or at least in that precise order) on the sci-fi television show ...
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with MP Fred Davies about his efforts to formally recognize Canadian fatalities from the Fenian Raids. legionmagazine.com/mp-fred-davi... 📸 LAC/Wikimedia
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with MP Fred Davies about his efforts to formally recognize Canadian fatalities from the Fenian Raids. legionmagazine.com/mp-fred-davi... 📸 LAC/Wikimedia
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Missed it last week? Here is my latest Legion Magazine article: legionmagazine.com/historian-ta...
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Historian Tanya Grodzinski on Canada and the Napoleonic Wars, Part 2 - Legion Magazine
Within the crypt of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, England, rest two of the country’s most revered war heroes. To innumerable Britons, both the tomb of Admiral Horatio Nelson—the seafaring legend of ...
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My latest Legion Magazine article - the second of two parts - is an interview with historian Tanya Grodzinski discussing the Canadians (or British North Americans, as they were) who fought in Europe against Napoleon. legionmagazine.com/historian-ta... 📸 The Queen’s York Rangers Regimental Council.
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Missed it last week? Here is my latest Legion Magazine article: legionmagazine.com/historian-ta...
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Historian Tanya Grodzinski on Canada and the Napoleonic Wars, Part 2 - Legion Magazine
Within the crypt of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, England, rest two of the country’s most revered war heroes. To innumerable Britons, both the tomb of Admiral Horatio Nelson—the seafaring legend of ...
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My latest Legion Magazine article - the second of two parts - is an interview with historian Tanya Grodzinski discussing the Canadians (or British North Americans, as they were) who fought in Europe against Napoleon. legionmagazine.com/historian-ta... 📸 The Queen’s York Rangers Regimental Council.
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Missed it last week? Here is my latest Legion Magazine article: legionmagazine.com/historian-ta...
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Historian Tanya Grodzinski on Canada and the Napoleonic Wars, Part 1 - Legion Magazine
They called it the Great War, an industrial-scale conflict that spanned four years and more than 30 countries across the globe. When the Armistice was at last declared on Nov. 11, 1918, millions had d...
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Missed it last week? Here is my latest Legion Magazine article: legionmagazine.com/historian-ta...
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Historian Tanya Grodzinski on Canada and the Napoleonic Wars, Part 1 - Legion Magazine
They called it the Great War, an industrial-scale conflict that spanned four years and more than 30 countries across the globe. When the Armistice was at last declared on Nov. 11, 1918, millions had d...
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
You know about Canadians who fought in the War of 1812. But what about those who served in the broader Napoleonic Wars in Europe? legionmagazine.com/historian-ta... My latest Legion Magazine article - the first of two parts - is an interview with historian Tanya Grodzinski exploring just that.
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Paul Reed @sommecourt.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
You can read the interview I did with @bowerswrites.bsky.social for the Canadian Legion Magazine here:
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with British historian Paul Reed on Canada's Great War contribution. The tour guide once lived on the Somme, where he helped recover the remains of a Canadian unknown soldier. legionmagazine.com/british-hist... 📸Louis Weirter/CWM/19710261-0788.
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with British historian Paul Reed on Canada's Great War contribution. The tour guide once lived on the Somme, where he helped recover the remains of a Canadian unknown soldier. legionmagazine.com/british-hist... 📸Louis Weirter/CWM/19710261-0788.
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
My latest "Military Health Matters" column in Legion Magazine explores how Canadian military medicine needs to adapt to the Arctic. legionmagazine.com/remote-readi... 📸 Master Corporal Alana Morin/Combat Camera.
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My latest Legion Magazine article features an interview with historian Eric Story, exploring the legacy of Great War veterans with disabilities—including the inspiring tale of George Hincks and Marshall McDougall. legionmagazine.com/historian-er... 📸 University of Wilfrid Laurie
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with sculptors Don and Shirley Begg, who have spent much of their careers immortalizing Canadian military history in bronze. legionmagazine.com/sculptors-do... 📸 Corporal Antoine Brochu/Canadian Forces Combat Camera.
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
My latest Legion Magazine cover feature, "Altar of Remembrance," is now online: legionmagazine.com/altar-of-rem... It charts Vimy Ridge’s journey from mud to chiselled stone—and the Canadian Great War veterans who witnessed both. (Yes, I was wearing my sunglasses inside, but I felt cool).
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
So much history I didn't know about the monument. Well worth a read. Also, it would be nice if Alex could get a few more followers on this site.
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
My latest Legion Magazine cover feature, "Altar of Remembrance," is now online: legionmagazine.com/altar-of-rem... It charts Vimy Ridge’s journey from mud to chiselled stone—and the Canadian Great War veterans who witnessed both. (Yes, I was wearing my sunglasses inside, but I felt cool).
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with historian Tim Foran. Here, he discusses the Canadian War Museum's new exhibition exploring the nation's involvement in the U.S. Civil War. legionmagazine.com/canadian-war... 📸 Courtesy Canadian War Museum.
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
In my latest Legion Magazine article, Dutch-born Canadian Herman Mol (pictured), 97, recalls the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, the Hunger Winter famine that killed 20,000, and his immigration journey to the country that helped liberate his homeland. legionmagazine.com/ww-ii-hunger...
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
In my latest Legion Magazine article, Dutch-born Canadian Herman Mol (pictured), 97, recalls the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, the Hunger Winter famine that killed 20,000, and his immigration journey to the country that helped liberate his homeland. legionmagazine.com/ww-ii-hunger...
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The Juno Beach Centre has acquired the bell and shipbuilder's plate from the WW II-era HMCS Alberni. Both artifacts were removed from the wreck by independent divers, but the museum has since intervened. Read more in my latest Legion Magazine article. legionmagazine.com/juno-beach-c... 📸 JBC.
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The Juno Beach Centre has acquired the bell and shipbuilder's plate from the WW II-era HMCS Alberni. Both artifacts were removed from the wreck by independent divers, but the museum has since intervened. Read more in my latest Legion Magazine article. legionmagazine.com/juno-beach-c... 📸 JBC.
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
He’s wearing his shades indoors because he feels pretty cool about landing the latest cover feature in Legion Magazine. This year marks 90 years since the Vimy Memorial was unveiled on the historic battlefield. Inside, you can trace the ridge’s journey from mud to chiselled stone.
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
He’s wearing his shades indoors because he feels pretty cool about landing the latest cover feature in Legion Magazine. This year marks 90 years since the Vimy Memorial was unveiled on the historic battlefield. Inside, you can trace the ridge’s journey from mud to chiselled stone.
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I'm often embarrassed to say that I'm still on Twitter, but now more than ever as, sadly, I've been hacked. Thus, any posts or messages from me there are the imposter. Please spread the news and report if you're also still on Twitter.
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I'm often embarrassed to say that I'm still on Twitter, but now more than ever as, sadly, I've been hacked. Thus, any posts or messages from me there are the imposter. Please spread the news and report if you're also still on Twitter.
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Did you know that a Canadian was at the helm of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) during the 9/11 terrorist attacks? Read my latest Legion Magazine article—an interview with NORAD's former director of operations, Eric Findley—to learn more. legionmagazine.com/canadian-eri...
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Did you know that a Canadian was at the helm of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) during the 9/11 terrorist attacks? Read my latest Legion Magazine article—an interview with NORAD's former director of operations, Eric Findley—to learn more. legionmagazine.com/canadian-eri...
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with anthropologist Ian Cosh. His new book explores the memory, trauma, and legacy of Canada’s WW II veterans who fought in the 1943 Battle of Ortona. legionmagazine.com/anthropologi... 📸 Sutherland House Books
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with anthropologist Ian Cosh. His new book explores the memory, trauma, and legacy of Canada’s WW II veterans who fought in the 1943 Battle of Ortona. legionmagazine.com/anthropologi... 📸 Sutherland House Books
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Three years after #movingtoCanada from Blighty (the U.K.), and I still lose my mind when North American wildlife makes an appearance outside my door. Perhaps I would feel differently if I had my trash cans outside.
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with Christine Hines, manager of the Shearwater Aviation Museum near Halifax, N.S., Canada. Are you curious to know what's in the collection? Take an armchair tour here! legionmagazine.com/an-armchair-... 📸 Tourism Nova Scotia.
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I was pleased to see my copy of Kelsey Lonie's truly excellent "A Vacation for Victory: An Illustrated History of the Women's Land Army in Canada" show up in the mail yesterday morning. I was also honoured to offer a few words of praise that now appear at the front of the book.
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with Christine Hines, manager of the Shearwater Aviation Museum near Halifax, N.S., Canada. Are you curious to know what's in the collection? Take an armchair tour here! legionmagazine.com/an-armchair-... 📸 Tourism Nova Scotia.
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Canadian Fern Blodgett Sunde was the first woman to serve as a wireless radio operator at sea -- on a Norwegian merchant navy vessel during WW II. legionmagazine.com/the-wavemaker/ I'm very proud of the Legion Magazine feature I wrote about her, so please consider reading and sharing!
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Canadian Fern Blodgett Sunde was the first woman to serve as a wireless radio operator at sea -- on a Norwegian merchant navy vessel during WW II. legionmagazine.com/the-wavemaker/ I'm very proud of the Legion Magazine feature I wrote about her, so please consider reading and sharing!
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
“We were gaslit every which way,” said retired sergeant Jessica Miller on Veterans Affairs Canada and its handling of the Women Veterans Council. Six members have since resigned, including Miller. You can read more in my latest Legion Magazine article. legionmagazine.com/jessica-mill...
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