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 Northwest Resistance

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 WWI

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 WW II

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A visit to

the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery

1939-1945 (Netherlands)

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 Claude Gray Exhibit

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 Museum

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 Archives

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View fullsize Quarterly weapons check at the museum! #canadianmilitaryhistory #canadianmilitary #winnipegattractions #winnipegmanitoba
View fullsize Winter pictures! - RFM Haines and Clark pushing a stuck vehicle, Camp Debert Nova Scotia, winter 1941 - RWR Division Champion hockey team, Camp Debert, winter 1941 -Anti-aircraft training with Bren gun, Camp Debert, 1941 -RFMC E Linklater and C D
View fullsize Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the RWR Museum!🎄🎅 - Handmade Christmas doily for the 8th Battalion CEF circa 1916 -Christmas gift wallet with engraving and translation - Picture hanging above the entrance to the RWR museum depicting the
View fullsize Sneak peek at our new exhibit! - New exhibit at the RWR Museum honouring the First Nations and Métis soldiers who fought as Royal Winnipeg Rifles during the First and Second World Wars - pictures depicting First Nation and Métis sniper
View fullsize 8th Battalion Chaplain Captain James W. Whillans giving a drink of tea to the wounded acting Major Alexander R. Bawden, the first Canadian to enlist in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Bawden would die of his wounds minutes after the picture was tak
View fullsize Victoria Cross & accompanying plaque, honouring the three Royal Winnipeg Rifles soldiers who won the highest award in the British Empire and Commonwealth for their heroic actions during the First World War. #ww1 #victoriacross #canadaremembers #
View fullsize Monday, September 11, 1918 Editions of the Free Press Evening Edition & Manitoba Free Press announcing the end of the First World War #armistice #armisticeday #remembranceday #canadaremembers #canadaremembers🇨🇦 #remembranceday #remembranceday
View fullsize Plaque commemorating the names of 2180 RWR soldiers who died in service of their country #remembranceday #remembrance #lestweforget🌹 #lestweforget🌺 #canadaremembers #lestweforget #canada🇨🇦 #canadianarmy #canadianarmedforces #november11 #novemb
View fullsize Cross marking the graves of a group of Winnipeg Grenadiers who fell at Vimy Ridge, 1917, and accompanying plaque #ww1 #canada #canada🇨🇦 #weremember #werememberthem #ww1history #ww1memorial #remembranceday #remembrance #canadaremembers #canadianarm
View fullsize Grave of Alexander P Brereton, one of three soldiers of the 8th Batallion to win the Victoria Cross during the WW1 #remembranceday #canadaremembers #ww1 #ww1history #ww1memorial #remebrance #ww1canada #headstone #headstonehistory #werememberthem
View fullsize Sign urging Canadians to come to the aid of their country, circa WW1 First daily post of Remembrance Day week to honour those who answered the call and payed with their lives #remembranceday #ww1 #canadaremembers #remembrance #canada🇨🇦 #canada #
View fullsize Week three of pictures! - map of Cambrai circa 1918, dotted line representing Canadian front line on 26/9/1918 & full line representing front line trenches on 12/10/1918 - Canadian patrol moving through the deserted streets of Cambrai, October 19
View fullsize Week two of photos! - 144th (Winnipeg Rifles) Battalion on parade at Camp Huges, 1914 - Pv5. MacDonald’s .303 Ross sniper rifle circa WW1 - MacAdam Shield-Shovel circa 1914 - “death penny” of Lieutenant Percy Travers Cox, killed in
View fullsize Starting up the page again with a series of photos! - Infantry carriers bogged down outside shelled farmhouse in Holland, 1944 - Riflemen posing in front of Infantry carrier, Leopold Canal, Holland 1944 Standing: W. Bennet, Cpl. Kyle, Campbell, Skidm
View fullsize You see a button on a string... but it’s actually much more. It’s an escape button compass from the Second World War. Like a normal button, it was sewn on the uniform. A solider could remove the button, which is magnetized, suspend it