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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

There is still plenty of time for Canadian university students to apply for the battlefield study tour with the Canadian Battlefields Foundation!

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Canadian university students should check out this opportunity from the Canadian Battlefields Foundation for a study tour to Europe in late May-June to visit Canadian battlefields of the First and Second World Wars.

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

An image of Alvei under sail. Its website classes Alvei as a "Main topsail schooner"

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Joseph and George gave their lives to defend Canada, while at home their family worked in war industry and purchased war bonds.

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

George Hong died on 8 September 1944 and is buried in Ancona War Cemetery; his epitaph “SO THAT ALL PEOPLES MAY LIVE IN PEACE AND FREEDOM. BORN WINDSOR, ONTARIO, CANADA” He was 19. We will remember them.

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Joseph Hong’s brother, George, was serving with the West Nova Scotia Regiment in Italy, after recovering from wounds received earlier that year.

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Joseph Hong is buried in BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE Cdn War Cemetery with his crew. The inscription on his grave “UNION OF A CHINESE HEART WITH A CANADIAN SPIRIT”. He was 20

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

He joined 24 Operational Training Unit as a navigator and was a member of a Whitley bomber crew. On the night of 23/24 May 1944 his aircraft was lost on a “Nickel” raid to drop propaganda leaflets.

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Joseph Hong joined the RCAF in August 1942 at the age of 18, leaving a job at the Windsor Star newspaper as an advertising salesman. Training at Mont Joli, Lacome and Victoriaville, Quebec followed; he proceeded overseas in November 1943

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

As Asian Heritage Month in Canada comes to an end, the story of Joseph Hong deserves to be told. F/O Joseph Hong from Windsor, Ontario, died this month in 1944 flying a mission to Alençon in Normandy.

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

A great set of SWW OS maps that once belonged to Lt-Col GM Carrie, OBE, the founding force behind the survey capability in the Cdn Army. Ten volumes cover the UK (England and Wales) in swaths that run from the south coast to Manchester. He commanded the 1st Survey Regt RCA and later worked at CMHQ.

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The Canadian Battlefields Foundations 2025 Student Study Tour is now accepting applications. Canadian university students are encouraged to apply for this unique opportunity. The tour will visit First World War battlefields and Canadian sites in the Netherlands. Spread the word!

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Serge Durflinger's 2010 book "Veterans With a Vision" illuminates the lives of the war-blinded by detailing the veterans' process of civil re-establishment, physical and psychological rehabilitation, and social and personal coping. www.ubcpress.ca/veterans-wit...

The cover of the book "Veterans with a Vision" shows blind veterans marching in a parade, and casualties being recovered.

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

#YMX Mirabel Airport near Montreal QC

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Just in time! I had my snow tires put on yesterday. Nothing to what I hear @normagraham.bsky.social is in for this weekend. #snowbelt #lakeeffect

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Learning a landing craft-load as I read this superb book. Great maps and photos too. Challenges received wisdom about this beach. #histbookchat

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Just as beautiful in Canadian service too!

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

I will be saved, but a beloved character will die. Farts will proliferate.

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

Photos of aircraft towed across the border. Watched benignly by a Mountie, in some cases.

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 23/07/2024

It was commanded by Lt-Gen H.D.G. "Harry" Crerar, who would remain in command, save for a few bouts of illness, until the end of the war.

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 23/07/2024

#OTD In the village of Amblie, 3.6 km to the west of the Beny sur Mer CWGC, the HQ of First Canadian Army assumed operational control of the I British Corps sector, marking the first deployment of a Canadian field army.

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

Watching the repatriation ceremony for Newfoundland's Unknown Soldier on Memorial Day 100 years after the dedication of the Newfoundland War Memorial by Field Marshal Haig.

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

Heading to the Quinte International Air Show at 8 Wing Trenton on Saturday. Lots of warbirds on display.

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

Glad to see Oddball's tanker helmet in the stack! One of his best roles, unmentioned in all the recent tributes.

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery.

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

This arrived in the mail today after crossing the Atlantic! Just in time for pre-D-Day reading!

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

St Aubin sur Mer. The bunker is in the distance. Site of the barricade in the photo.

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

Turns out Lt Alan Jerrard, flying in Italy, earned his VC on 30 March 1918, so he was the last RFC VC.

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

This year's students have been selected for the Canadian Battlefields Foundation study tour. Twelve students from across Canada will travel in June to the UK, Belgium and France to commemorate the centennial of the Royal Canadian Air Force, and visit other important sites.

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

Somewhere in the bowels of the ABMC Normandy cemetery is this plaque, created by the Cdn Battlefields Foundation to replace a metal version that had become salt corroded. A base was built, but the old rusty plaque was mounted at Omaha Beach instead of the new one, which seems to have been lost.

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

The sindaco of Spaccarelli was likely not impressed with the review!

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

Lancaster, finally available on Netflix in 🇨🇦

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

Prof Geoff Hayes of Waterloo University is about to start his talk. It will be available on the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada YouTube channel soon.

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

They arrived today, and they look great!

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you? I'll be just fine

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

Minor point, but it's Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment. The Sherbrooke Fusiliers were/are an infantry unit that was mobilized for home defence but never went overseas. Odd, I know. The SFR were formed from three units in 1940: The Fusiliers de Sherbrooke, the Sherbrooke Regt (MG) and the 7/11th Hussars

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade set of three? Fort Garry Horse, Sherbrooke Fusilier Regt and 1st Hussars.

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

The details for my 4-13 October 2024 Channel Ports and Scheldt tour will be available soon. Examine the Canadian role in its most significant land battle of the Second World War on its 80th anniversary. 52nd Lowland stuff as well! #wehavewayspod #CanadaRemembers #VeteransENG_CA

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David Patterson @stemvik.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

It's good to be the Mackenzie King!

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