#OTD in 1944, Canadian destroyer HMCS Skeena dragged her anchor and wrecked in a massive storm off Iceland with the loss of 15 crew. First photo shows the ship in better days, shortly after commissioning in 1931. @RoyalCanNavy #Canada #WW2

An interesting mix of Empire servicemen in 1918 London: two Australian infantrymen, a British Army Pay Corps corporal and a Royal Air Force officer. #England #Australia #London

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"Biddy," one of many animal mascots of the 172nd (Rocky Mountain Rangers) Battalion, enjoys a dip in the summer of 1916 at Vernon training camp, British Columbia. #Canada #bear #WWI

July 1915, and the Canadian Military Hospital in Le Tréport, France receives a visit from Sir Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada, along with future PM R.B. Bennett (then Chair of the National Service Board). #Canada #France #WWI

Born in St Louis USA, Grant Morton was a travelling salesman in Toronto prior to serving in France with the 11th Trench Mortar Battery. Badly wounded in September 1918, he was evacuated to hospital in England, where he died of his injuries. #USA #Canada #WWI

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Ralph Pearson was a prewar Canadian Militia soldier and high school teacher from Nova Scotia. In WWI he joined the field artillery. Returning from England, he died at sea of bronchial pneumonia #OTD, 1918. #Canada #NovaScotia #WWI

#OTD 1939: British battleship HMS Royal Oak is sunk at anchor in the naval base at Scapa Flow, Scotland by German sub U-47. 835 crew are killed. The ship remains a war grave, with a new White Ensign placed on the wreck every year. #Scotland #RoyalNavy #WW2

This battered old postcard still has the power to charm, with these three children (two dressed like daddy) during the Great War. The boy at left *may* be wearing the badge of the 46th (Saskatchewan) Battn. #Canada #WWI #teddybear

#OTD October 10, 1944: the Canadian National Railways offers a menu saluting the Canadian military and civilian war effort. Try the fish! #Canada #WW2 #menu #railroad @CNRailway

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1942 pamphlet on packing lunch for war workers, produced by Metropolitan Life. By 1944, 261,000 Canadian men and women were employed directly in munitions and war materiel factories. #Canada #WW2 #industry

Roy Hadley, a civil servant in Victoria, British Columbia enjoys a late spring tea in the garden with family in 1915. Serving in Belgium with the 48th Bn, he is wounded in June of 1916 at Ypres. He recovers and returns home in 1919. #Canada #WWI #Belgium

1916, and the Duke of Connaught (Canada's Governor-General and seventh child of Queen Victoria) inspects the 148th (Montreal) Battalion, preparing to sail for England. #Canada #England #WWI

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