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Son of John Arthur and Sarah Mitchell Blaikie, of Great Village, Nova Scotia.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Joseph Mckay Blaikie
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Lance Corporal Joseph Mckay Blaikie
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Lance Corporal Joseph Mckay Blaikie
Joseph McKay Blaikie as a member of his first unit, the 106th Battalion.
Note 106th Battalion cap badge on photo mount.
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Lance Corporal Joseph Mckay Blaikie
Embroidered silk postcard sent by Lance Corporal Joseph McKay Blaikie to his mother. The silk pocket on this card held two enclosures - a small greeting card and a dried flower wrapped in paper.
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Lance Corporal Joseph Mckay Blaikie
Embroidered silk postcard sent to Canada from France by Lance Corporal Joseph McKay Blaikie. He wrote a brief letter to his mother on the back of this card. The card was dated October 1st, 1916.
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Lance Corporal Joseph Mckay Blaikie
Letter on the back of an embroidered silk postcard sent to Canada from France by Lance Corporal Joseph McKay Blaikie. The front of the card was embroidered with the greeting "To my dear mother".
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Lance Corporal Joseph Mckay Blaikie
Embroidered silk postcard sent to Canada by Lance Corporal Joseph McKay Blaikie. There was no message on the back of this card.
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Lance Corporal Joseph Mckay Blaikie
In Memory of those who served in the 106th Overseas Battalion Nova Scotia Rifles.
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Lance Corporal Joseph Mckay Blaikie
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Lance Corporal Joseph Mckay Blaikie
Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Lance Corporal Joseph Mckay Blaikie
Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Lance Corporal Joseph Mckay Blaikie
From the Halifax Evening Mail October 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Joseph McKay Blaikie as a member of his first unit, the 106th Battalion. Note 106th Battalion cap badge on photo mount.
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Embroidered silk postcard sent by Lance Corporal Joseph McKay Blaikie to his mother. The silk pocket on this card held two enclosures - a small greeting card and a dried flower wrapped in paper.
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Embroidered silk postcard sent to Canada from France by Lance Corporal Joseph McKay Blaikie. He wrote a brief letter to his mother on the back of this card. The card was dated October 1st, 1916.
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Letter on the back of an embroidered silk postcard sent to Canada from France by Lance Corporal Joseph McKay Blaikie. The front of the card was embroidered with the greeting "To my dear mother".
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Embroidered silk postcard sent to Canada by Lance Corporal Joseph McKay Blaikie. There was no message on the back of this card.
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In Memory of those who served in the 106th Overseas Battalion Nova Scotia Rifles. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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From the Halifax Evening Mail October 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Page 202 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VIMY MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France
Canada's most impressive tribute overseas to those Canadians who fought and gave their lives in the First World War is the majestic and inspiring Vimy Memorial, which overlooks the Douai Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge, about eight kilometres northeast of Arras on the N17 towards Lens. The Memorial is signposted from this road to the left, just before you enter the village of Vimy from the south. The memorial itself is someway inside the memorial park, but again it is well signposted. At the base of the memorial, these words appear in French and in English:
Inscribed on the ramparts of the Vimy Memorial are the names of over 11,000 Canadian soldiers who were posted as 'missing, presumed dead' in France.
A plaque at the entrance to the memorial states that the land for the battlefield park, 91.18 hectares in extent, was 'the free gift in perpetuity of the French nation to the people of Canada'. Construction of the massive work began in 1925, and 11 years later, on July 26, 1936, the monument was unveiled by King Edward VIII.
The park surrounding the Vimy Memorial was created by horticultural experts. Canadian trees and shrubs were planted in great masses to resemble the woods and forests of Canada. Wooded parklands surround the grassy slopes of the approaches around the Vimy Memorial. Trenches and tunnels have been restored and preserved and the visitor can picture the magnitude of the task that faced the Canadian Corps on that distant dawn when history was made.
On April 3, 2003, the Government of Canada designated April 9th of each year as a national day of remembrance of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
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