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Category Archives: History
Legion of Frontiersmen Medals
Topic June / July 2021. The Legion historians and archivists regularly receive enquiries about Legion medals. So far we have hesitated, the reason being that, whilst the story is reasonably straightforward until about 1975, the picture afterwards becomes extremely cloudy. Commands, … Continue reading
Not All Battles and Conflicts
Topic Apr / May 2021. Frontiersmen Artists. It is well known that Frontiersmen have always brought special skills of many kinds to the Legion. These were men of action, but it has not often been realised that there were also … Continue reading
Posted in Frontiersmen, History, Latest Topic, Legion of Frontiersmen, Roger Pocock
Tagged James Henry Dowd, Koekkoek, Lance Cattermole, Punch
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Major George Harris Heaney, VD
5th South Australian Imperial Bushmen Commandant, Cape Town, Legion of Frontiersmen Chief Organising Officer, Queensland Command, Legion of Frontiersmen Article by Major Christopher Moon (late Royal Australian Engineers), Special Consultant to H&A. Major G. H. Heaney was educated at Woolwich, … Continue reading
Posted in Frontiersmen, History, Legion of Frontiersmen
Tagged Australia, Queensland
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1913
Topic Feb / Mar 2021. In our last topic page we looked at the Frontiersmen in 1938, the year before the Second World War was declared. This time we look back at 1913, the year before the First World War. Reading … Continue reading
1938
Topic Dec 2020 / Jan 2021. This topic is something we have not featured before. We are looking at one year of the Frontiersmen’s activities; an important year with WW2 just a year ahead. The First War had only ended … Continue reading
The Frontiersman Who Took the Blame
Topic October / November 2020. When King Edward VII was on the throne and the Legion of Frontiersmen was founded there were definite class barriers in Britain. In countries such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand class was not as strongly … Continue reading
Propaganda
Topic August / September 2020. Misinformation – Deception – Persuasion. It depends entirely your point of view as to what you call it. It was certainly something in which many Frontiersmen were skilled, although we have been inclined to refer … Continue reading
More Than a Local Hero
Topic June / July 2020. JACK GALLAGHER B.E.M. (1902-84) is more than a local hero in the village of Selsey, England, where he was responsible for the formation of the local troop of the Legion of Frontiersmen and of what … Continue reading
Posted in Frontiersmen, History, Latest Topic, Legion of Frontiersmen
Tagged Boy Scouts, Jack Gallagher BEM, Junkers 87, London Blitz, WW2
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The Presidents
Topic April / May 2020. The Legion has in recent years understandably concentrated with pride on their Patron, the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma. It must not be forgotten that she would not accept the position of President, a long-standing position … Continue reading
The Pioneer Frontiersmen Flyers
On the Canada pages of this website you will find Historian Will Shandro’s account of the Calgary Frontiersmen’s effort to pay for an airship, although this apparently came to nothing. On another page we tell of the highly successful Air … Continue reading
Posted in Archive Topics, Canada, Frontiersmen, History, Legion of Frontiersmen, Uncategorized
Tagged Air Aces, Wop May, WW1
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