Legion Magazine https://legionmagazine.com/en/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 13:37:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.1 https://legionmagazine.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/cropped-favicon-LM-32x32.jpg Legion Magazine https://legionmagazine.com/en/ 32 32 Jess Larochelle: A Canadian soldier https://legionmagazine.com/en/jess-larochelle-a-canadian-soldier/ https://legionmagazine.com/en/jess-larochelle-a-canadian-soldier/#respond Wed, 06 Sep 2023 20:38:00 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/en/?p=87965 Wounded warrior Jess Larochelle, whose magnificent defence of a strongpoint in Afghanistan earned him Canada’s second-highest award for valour and spawned a campaign to upgrade it to a Victoria Cross, has died. He was 40. “He was found in his shop and there wasn’t anything that could be done for him,” his brother Andrew wrote […]

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/en/jess-larochelle-a-canadian-soldier/feed/ 0 The bulldog bearer https://legionmagazine.com/en/the-bulldog-bearer/ https://legionmagazine.com/en/the-bulldog-bearer/#respond Wed, 06 Sep 2023 19:26:06 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/en/?p=87975 “The life of a stretcher-bearer during The Great War was a series of carries­—mostly of the living, often of the dying,” staff sergeant John Heeg wrote to the Kansas University Medical Center. “[They] experienced life and death on static battlefields unlike any others in history.” And on Sept. 2, 1918, life and death was undoubtedly […]

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/en/the-bulldog-bearer/feed/ 0 The 2023 Legion National Youth Track & Field Championships: Part 2 https://legionmagazine.com/en/the-2023-legion-national-youth-track-field-championships-part-2/ https://legionmagazine.com/en/the-2023-legion-national-youth-track-field-championships-part-2/#respond Wed, 30 Aug 2023 19:16:01 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/en/?p=87805 As if the Aug. 11-13 gathering of more than 900 teenage athletes wasn’t enough to reinforce the value of the Legion National Youth Track and Field Championships, two hammer throwers who cut their athletic teeth on the annual competition won world championships in August. A week after the 2023 youth competition ended in Sherbrooke, Que., […]

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/en/roll-with-the-punches/feed/ 0 On this date : August 2023 https://legionmagazine.com/en/on-this-date-august-2023/ https://legionmagazine.com/en/on-this-date-august-2023/#respond Wed, 30 Aug 2023 18:18:14 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/en/?p=87906 1 August 1976 The Olympic Games in Montreal officially close. 3 August 2006   In Afghanistan, Sgt. Patrick Tower leads a medic team under heavy enemy fire to tend casualties, then leads survivors to safety. He is awarded the Star of Military Valour. 8 August 1944  Canadian, British and Polish forces advance south of Caen, […]

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/en/on-this-date-august-2023/feed/ 0 The 2023 Legion National Track & Field Championships in 120 pictures: Part 1 https://legionmagazine.com/en/the-2023-legion-national-track-field-championships-in-120-pictures-part-1/ https://legionmagazine.com/en/the-2023-legion-national-track-field-championships-in-120-pictures-part-1/#respond Thu, 24 Aug 2023 15:33:56 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/en/?p=87712 More than 900 athletes gathered in Sherbrooke, Que., Aug. 11-13 for the 2023 Legion National Youth Track and Field Championships—three days of competition, education and camaraderie among a diverse, talented and enthusiastic legion of young Canadians. The participants came from both Legion-sponsored programs and private clubs: 307 Legion athletes representing nine regions of the RCL […]

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/en/the-2023-legion-national-track-field-championships-in-120-pictures-part-1/feed/ 0 The world’s most northerly shipwreck https://legionmagazine.com/en/the-worlds-most-northerly-shipwreck/ https://legionmagazine.com/en/the-worlds-most-northerly-shipwreck/#respond Wed, 23 Aug 2023 18:03:48 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/en/?p=87725 In 100 metres of water off the coast of Beechey Island, Nunavut, lies a time capsule. Undisturbed and immaculately preserved by the Northwest Passage’s cold water and razor-edged ice packs for more than a century sits HMS Breadalbane, the world’s most northerly shipwreck.   A national historic site and possibly the best-preserved wreck on Earth, […]

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/en/the-worlds-most-northerly-shipwreck/feed/ 0 Russia employs terrorist tactics in Ukraine https://legionmagazine.com/en/russia-employs-terrorist-tactics-in-ukraine/ https://legionmagazine.com/en/russia-employs-terrorist-tactics-in-ukraine/#respond Wed, 16 Aug 2023 18:24:09 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/en/?p=87655 Some tricks just never go away

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/en/russia-employs-terrorist-tactics-in-ukraine/feed/ 0 Canada’s First Female Soldiers https://legionmagazine.com/en/canadas-first-female-soldiers/ https://legionmagazine.com/en/canadas-first-female-soldiers/#respond Wed, 16 Aug 2023 18:13:29 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/en/?p=87663 “The women wanted to be taken seriously,” wrote Barbara Dundas and Dr. Serge Durflinger of the Canadian War Museum. In some ancient civilizations women have been taken seriously in battle. There is Athena, a Greek goddess of war, who in Homer’s Iliad used her civility, intelligence and prudence to be even more effective than the […]

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/en/canadas-first-female-soldiers/feed/ 0 Heroes And Villains: Currie & Ludendorff https://legionmagazine.com/en/heroes-and-villains-currie-ludendorff/ https://legionmagazine.com/en/heroes-and-villains-currie-ludendorff/#respond Mon, 14 Aug 2023 18:41:26 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/en/?p=87644 Two commanders face off in the 100-day offensive that would lead to the end of the First World War

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