David Patterson 🇨🇦 🇺🇦

Ex-soldier🇨🇦, scholar, traveler...seeker of the perfect croissant. Independent Company member and battlefield tour guide, 10th Mtn Div vet, Portsmouth FC fan.

[David Patterson 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @stemvik]

@DivebumChef @C_Somos A great resume of the differences in classes of service and the benefits that result, as well as a call to resolve inequities. We have a chance to do this right.

[Jayson Geroux @JaysonGeroux]

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Soldiers from The Royal Canadian Regiment walked for 35 hours from Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Petawawa to the National War Memorial in Ottawa (over 150 kilometres) this weekend to raise funds for the families of the CFB Wainwright tragedy:
https://t.co/FjtFsBj4wO

[David Patterson 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @stemvik]

@Legion_Magazine This is an image of the HMCS Bras d'Or to which your post refers, a lightship sunk in 1940. The image in your post is of HMCS Bras d'Or an experimental hydrofoil launched in 1968 and struck off in 1971. It is on display at the Musee Martime de Quebec.

[Jayson Geroux @JaysonGeroux]

Fears No Foe / Victoria Patricia

[David Patterson 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @stemvik]

@AntonyRowntree @WeHaveWaysPod "Broadsword calling Danny Boy"

[Project '44 @project4_4]

Band of Brothers is easily the most well known show on WW2.

I try not to do a lot on BoB because it is covered so much, but for small engagements this is probably the most well known of them all.

I thought it would be fun to test what it would look like animated.

[Project '44 @project4_4]

December 1944. Antwerp was the most important port the Allies held, and Germany wanted it gone. From launch sites in the Netherlands and the Rhineland, V-1 flying bombs and V-2 rockets fell on the city day and night.

[David Patterson 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @stemvik]

@Legion_Magazine Important things for the troops to know on that map: where are the clubs, where is the field ambulance, where are the provosts?

[Canadian Armed Forces @CanadianForces]

On October 8, a headstone rededication ceremony for Sgt Norman Harold McLennan was conducted by The Royal Canadian Regiment at Courcelette British Cemetery, France, exactly 110 years after his death during the Battle of Ancre Heights. 1/4

[David Patterson 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @stemvik]

@militaryhistori ... a mortar bomb not a mortar. #pedanticmuch

[David Patterson 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @stemvik]

@oldcanadaseries Shortly after Canada declared war in September 1939, RCMP Commissioner Wood arranged to create a specialized military police unit from Mountie volunteers. Initially, 116 to 120 RCMP members were accepted into No. 1 Provost Company, which shipped to the United Kingdom in Dec 1939

[David Patterson 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @stemvik]

@LateNightSeth @DBtodomundo "You may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile" stopped at a red light with David Byrne on a bike in Manhattan?

[David Patterson 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @stemvik]

@Npteggchaser My first thought was, "Ikea sells clothes now?"

[David Patterson 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @stemvik]

@ifellonithonest I plan on "rescuing" a few later today!

[David Patterson 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @stemvik]

@militaryhistori I have heard a-boot this!

[David Patterson 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @stemvik]

@torontohistory "Come all you Bold Canadians!"https://t.co/3vubaZI094

[David Patterson 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @stemvik]

@Artemisapphire Fewer coffins this time.

[David Patterson 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @stemvik]

@buitengebieden "Rural juror?"

[David Patterson 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @stemvik]

Interesting notes for gunners everywhere.

[Matthew Moss | The Armourer's Bench @historicfirearm]

Interesting note about the 105s