Lest We Forget

FROM 2015: The skies over Alberta were full of warplanes 70 years ago. It was the Second World War, and scores of planes were landing and taking off every day from Blatchford Field in Edmonton as part of a secret effort to help the Allies defeat the Nazis.

FROM 2020: Four generations of military service, says Henneberry

Retired Canadian Armed Forces personnel engage in opinionated conversations and laughter during lunchtime sessions at Royal Canadian Legion Branch 271 in St. Albert

FROM 2011: Most people wouldn't willingly charge headlong into enemy fire on a horse. But most people aren't Strathconas.

FROM 2014: Two minutes of silence are never enough for veteran Dan Graham to remember his fallen friends.

FROM 2013: "In combat you get closer than brothers, you depend on him and he depends on you. (Otherwise) you're alone up there."

FROM 2011: A Métis woman born in St. Albert, Chartrand was one of the first Indigenous women from Alberta to serve overseas during that conflict. On Nov. 11, she became the third person ever to receive the Aboriginal Veterans Society of Alberta Patron's Award in recognition of her heroism.

FROM 2016: For years the five soldiers’ names were missing from St. Albert’s cenotaph, which honours the dead from the First and Second World Wars. In 2016, the plaque on the cenotaph was updated.

FROM 2014: The radar equipment Bruce worked on was so secret the British armed some of the devices so that the enemy could not figure out how they worked if the ships were captured.

FROM 2018: Sturgeon County looks back at the global conflict that raged during its early years: World War One.