Category: On This Day

While Spartacans on the rampage in Berlin, the Irish Guards hockey game held at Cologne, Germany on Monday, 10 February 1919. No Canadians attended – 1st Canadian Division HQ had closed at Marienburg on 12 January 1919. CEF participation in the Allied Occupation of Germany lasted only a month. Meanwhile in Paris, the Supreme War…

Andenne On Friday, 31 January 1919, Sir Arthur Currie addressed Canadian troops regarding mobilization in the town square of Andenne, Belgium. Currie, along with troops of the 1st and 2nd Canadian Divisions had recently returned from the Allied Occupation of Germany. Though Canadian participation short-lived, the occupation lasted exactly ten years to the day Currie…

Liege, Belgium Reviewed by General Jacques of the Belgian Army On 4 February 1919, the 1st Canadian Division March Past occurred in Liege, Belgium. The 1st and 2nd Canadian Divisions, along with select Corps Troops, such as the 5th Canadian Divisional Artillery, still in France and Belgium as the 3rd and 4th Divisions had been…

The 1st and 2nd Canadian Divisions, along with selected Corps Troops, marched to the Rhine in December of 1918 to assume occupation duties. A very rainy Friday, 13 December 1918 began ten continuous years of the Allied Occupation of Germany, as the Rhine river officially crossed at Cologne and Bonn. Rhein Bridge, Bonn Rheinbrücke Sir…