Hosted by Samantha L.G. McCrea · 🇺🇸 US · EN-CA · 31 episodes
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Memory and Valour is a Canadian military history podcast exploring the human stories of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War (WW1). Through authentic diaries, letters, and archival research, each episode brings listeners into trench warfare, shell shock, conscription, battlefield tactics, and the lived experience of Canadian soldiers on the Western Front.This is Canadian WW1 history beyond the textbook — focused on courage, sacrifice, memory, and the families forever changed by war.Follow Memory and Valour for immersive Canadian First World War storytelling.
Samantha L.G. McCrea hosts Memory and Valour, a history show with 31 episodes published.
On July 1st, 1916, the First Battalion of the Newfoundland Regiment went forward at Beaumont-Hamel. Of 801 men, there were 710 casualties in thirty minutes. Every officer down. In this 110th anniversary episode, we follo
A thousand men in eight days. A parade square turned into a suburb with four little lakes. A bronze general on a horse that nobody who lives there can name. His name was Griesbach. Edmonton's youngest-ever mayor, son of
In 1916, a German soldier watched the first tank loom out of the fog and ran for his life, screaming that a crocodile was crawling into the trenches. This is the story of the tank on the Western Front, and it's a Canadia
One wounded man. Sixty-two prisoners. A quarter-mile of enemy trench. Here's how an Edmonton farmer pulled it off, and why it was genius, not luck. On 16 September 1916, on the Somme, Private John Chipman "Chip" Kerr of
Canada entered the First World War without an air force; not a small one, not a token one; none. Yet, somehow produced some of the most extraordinary fighter pilots of the entire conflict. This episode tells the stories
On July 30th, 1915, at a ruined château called Hooge, the German Army turned flamethrowers on British troops for the first time. Within minutes, a battalion broke. Not from shells or gas: from fire. In Episode 27, we tra
At Vimy Ridge, one man’s actions helped secure the line and cost him his life. Lance Sergeant Ellis Sifton’s Victoria Cross is often reduced to a single moment of heroism. In this episode, I’m joined by historian Blair F
They saved lives, but they didn’t always leave the dead alone. In the First World War, the Canadian Army Medical Corps stood between life and death, pulling wounded men from the battlefield and fighting to keep them aliv
They joked about dying. Not because it was funny, but because it was the only way to survive it. In the trenches of the First World War, soldiers turned fear into sarcasm and horror into humour. Shellfire became “just a
April 9th, 1917—Canada stepped onto the world stage at Vimy Ridge. For the first time, all four divisions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force advanced together in a single, coordinated assault—executed with precision, pr
1915 is the year the war stopped being an "adventure". What began as a war of movement and expectation hardened into something far more brutal: static trench lines, failed offensives, and a battlefield dominated by machi
When the First World War erupted in 1914, Canada answered the call without hesitation. But among those who stepped forward were men who, under Canadian law, were not even recognized as citizens. In this episode of Memory
In 1916, an explosion tore through the Barnbow Munitions Factory in Leeds, killing 35 women in an instant. They were known as the Barnbow Lasses. Young workers fueling the First World War from the factory floor… until di
During the First World War, Canadian POWs faced starvation, forced labour, and brutal marches in German camps, while thousands of civilians in Canada — many Ukrainian and German immigrants — were imprisoned as “enemy ali
On June 2, 1916, the ground beneath Canadian soldiers at Mount Sorrel exploded. German mines and artillery shattered the front line near Ypres, killing hundreds in minutes and throwing the Canadian position into chaos.Af
In 1917, as Canadian soldiers bled at Vimy Ridge and endured the mud of Passchendaele, the war exploded at home. With First World War casualties mounting and enlistment collapsing, Prime Minister Robert Borden introduced
By 1918, the Canadian Corps had earned a reputation across the Western Front: shock troops. They were chosen for some of the most difficult assaults of the First World War — at Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, Amiens, and duri
When the guns fell silent in 1918, the war did not end for thousands of Canadian soldiers. In this episode, we explore shell shock during the First World War and how it reshaped the lives of those who returned home carry
In a war defined by trenches, machine guns, and industrial slaughter, Canada sent horsemen into the storm. This episode follows the Canadian Cavalry Brigade from the mud of the Western Front to the desperate charge at Mo
The 107th Battalion — known as The Timberwolves — was one of the most remarkable and overlooked units in Canada’s First World War history. Made up largely of First Nations soldiers, these men brought extraordinary skill,
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