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Digital gallery of Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Percival Birchall
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Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Percival Birchall
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Percival Birchall
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Percival Birchall
Lt.-Col. A. P. Birchall is depicted in this illustration at the moment he fell during the charge of the 4th Canadian battalion (2nd battle of Ypres). This picture appeared on the cover of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune on July 20th, 1915, and it is entitled: "Come on, boys! Give it to 'em!". The description reads: <br>"This picture, drawn especially for The Tribune, the New York Herald, and the London Sphere, shows the superb charge of the Fourth Canadian Battalion in face of German shell fire at Ypres. Lieutenant Colonel Birchall, carrying a light cane, in accordance with an old custom, fell dead while cheering his men, who charged onward in response to his last words."
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Percival Birchall
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Percival Birchall
The death of Lt. Col. Arthur Birchall while leading the 4th Battalion's counterattack was described in many accounts of the 2nd battle of Ypres.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Percival Birchall
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Percival Birchall
Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Percival Birchall
This photo was found in a box full of photograqphica and paper from a Family in Westholme B.C. Canada- Name of Groves.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Percival Birchall
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Percival Birchall
Newspaper clipping from Daily Telegraph of April 28, 1915. Image taken from web address of http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11561770/Daily-Telegraph-April-28-1915.html
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Percival Birchall
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Percival Birchall
From the Toronto Telegram May 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Percival Birchall
From the Halifax Evening Mail September 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Percival Birchall
From the Montreal Star c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Lt.-Col. A. P. Birchall is depicted in this illustration at the moment he fell during the charge of the 4th Canadian battalion (2nd battle of Ypres). This picture appeared on the cover of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune on July 20th, 1915, and it is entitled: "Come on, boys! Give it to 'em!". The description reads: <br>"This picture, drawn especially for The Tribune, the New York Herald, and the London Sphere, shows the superb charge of the Fourth Canadian Battalion in face of German shell fire at Ypres. Lieutenant Colonel Birchall, carrying a light cane, in accordance with an old custom, fell dead while cheering his men, who charged onward in response to his last words."
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The death of Lt. Col. Arthur Birchall while leading the 4th Battalion's counterattack was described in many accounts of the 2nd battle of Ypres.
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Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England.
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This photo was found in a box full of photograqphica and paper from a Family in Westholme B.C. Canada- Name of Groves.
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Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Newspaper clipping from Daily Telegraph of April 28, 1915. Image taken from web address of http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11561770/Daily-Telegraph-April-28-1915.html
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Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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From the Toronto Telegram May 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Halifax Evening Mail September 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Montreal Star c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, it consists of a Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide. In the centre are broad staircases leading to the ramparts which overlook the moat, and to pillared loggias which run the whole length of the structure. On the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words:
TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.
Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription:
HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH.
The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 p.m. All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post. Two silver trumpets for use in the ceremony are a gift to the Ypres Last Post Committee by an officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, who served with the 10th Battery, of St. Catharines, Ontario, in Ypres in April 1915."
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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