I was getting ready to write this evening's post when I stumbled across the news of what's happening in Sydney, Australia. I felt a little sick hearing about the lockdowns and reports of a usually busy part of the city being deserted, all of which had reminders of October 22 in Ottawa.
The stakes are higher this time; something like twenty to forty people being held hostage in a café about 1½ kilometres south of the Sydney Opera House. I must go to bed now, I hope there isn't bad news when I wake up -- at least no worse than usual.
Red Cross Volunteers of WWI Now on Ancestry
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Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD’s) were formed in 1909 by the British Red
Cross and the Order of St John at the request of the War Office. Both men
and wo...
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