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May 5th Flag Raising Ceremony Sussex New Brunswick
Town Hall
Guests:
8th Hussars Museum Board and Staff
8th Hussars Regimental Association Members
8th Hussars Regiment Members
Staff and Students of Lisa’s Playhouse
Members of the Peninsula Pearls Senior’s Group
General Public
Welcome and Introduction – Deputy Mayor Ralph Carr
Thank you all for joining us here this morning to fulfill a promise that was made at this building on March 31st, 2015.
As a tribute of respect to the Regiment, and as a sign of friendship between the communities of Sussex, NB, Canada and Tynaarlo, Netherlands, it was agreed that the municipalities shall fly each other flags supplemented by the Regiment pennant annually on May 5th.
This date is significant because it was on May 5th 1945 the following message was flashed to the Regiment and duly recorded in the Regiment History: Cancel all offensive operations, ceasefire at 0800 5 May 1945.
Now here in the Town of Sussex we mark the 72nd anniversary of this occasion with this ceremony. Lest we Forget.
Flag Raising – 8CH Regiment
Social – 8th Hussars Museum (Train Station)
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The flag raising ceremony to hoist the flags of Tynaarlo and the 8th Canadian Hussars Regiment was conducted May 5 2016 at Town Hall in Sussex New Brunswick Canada ,at 8:00am.
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At Town Hall Sussex New Brunswick , A Message from Mayor Marc Thorne focusing on the emotions and ties with our Dutch friends , at the The flag raising ceremony to hoist the flags of Tynaarlo and the 8th Canadian Hussars Regiment.
Attention to Detail: Vimy Ridge
Nick Dunning creates tiny yet incredibly realistic dioramas of historic military battles out of his home. A passion project, in honour of the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, was recently donated to 8th Canadian Hussars Museum in Sussex, N.B. Dunning comes by his craft honestly–his father was in the air force and his mother was an artist.
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[6th Armoured Regiment (First Hussars) Regimental Parade in England] (1942 ?)
Film d’officiers canadiens supérieurs. Le commandant [le lieutenant-colonel R.H. Back] salue le régiment qui défile en attirail de guerre avec des respirateurs, des pistolets et des pardessus.
Source : Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. 1st Hussars fonds, 1989-0395.
3RD BATTALION BORDER REGIMENT CAP BADGES
Post WW1 Polish Regimental Cross - Badge
Post WW2 Polish Regimental Cross - Badge in excellent condtion. We buy WW2 Medals and Badges for the fairest prices anywhere.
Imperial 2014 - RCAC Rifle C12A1
Imperial 2014 - RCAC Rifle C12A1
North African Campaign
During the Second World War, the North African Campaign took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts (Western Desert Campaign, also known as the Desert War) and in Morocco and Algeria (Operation Torch) and Tunisia (Tunisia Campaign).
The campaign was fought between the Allies and Axis powers, many of whom had colonial interests in Africa dating from the late 19th century. The Allied war effort was dominated by the British Commonwealth and exiles from German-occupied Europe. The United States entered the war in 1941 and began direct military assistance in North Africa on 11 May 1942.
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Eastbourne
Eastbourne ( pronunciation ) is a large town, seaside resort, and borough in East Sussex, on the south coast of England, 17 miles (27 km) east of Brighton. Eastbourne is located immediately east of Beachy Head, the highest chalk sea cliff in Great Britain and part of the South Downs National Park. With a seafront consisting largely of Victorian hotels, the pier, and a Napoleonic era fort and military museum, Eastbourne was developed by the Duke of Devonshire in 1800 from four separate hamlets. It has a growing population, a broad economic base, and is home to companies in a wide range of industries.
Though Eastbourne is a relatively new town, there is evidence of human occupation in the area from the Stone Age. The town grew as a fashionable tourist resort largely thanks to prominent landowner, William Cavendish, later known as the Duke of Devonshire. Cavendish appointed architect Henry Currey to design a street plan for the town, but not before sending him to Europe to draw inspiration. The resulting mix of architecture is typically Victorian and remains a key feature of Eastbourne.
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. As Prime Minister, Churchill led Britain to victory in the Second World War. Churchill represented five constituencies during his career as Member of Parliament (MP). Ideologically an economic liberal and British imperialist, he began and ended his parliamentary career as a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955, but for twenty years from 1904 he was a prominent member of the Liberal Party.
Of mixed English and American parentage, Churchill was born in Oxfordshire to an aristocratic family. Joining the British Army, he saw action in British India, the Anglo–Sudan War, and the Second Boer War, gaining fame as a war correspondent and writing books about his campaigns. Elected an MP in 1900, initially as a Conservative, he defected to the Liberals in 1904. In H. H. Asquith's Liberal government, Churchill served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary, and First Lord of the Admiralty, championing prison reform and workers' social security. During the First World War, he oversaw the Gallipoli Campaign; after it proved a disaster, he resigned from government and served in the Royal Scots Fusiliers on the Western Front. In 1917 he returned to government under David Lloyd George as Minister of Munitions, and was subsequently Secretary of State for War, Secretary of State for Air, then Secretary of State for the Colonies. After two years out of Parliament, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in Stanley Baldwin's Conservative government, returning the pound sterling in 1925 to the gold standard at its pre-war parity, a move widely seen as creating deflationary pressure on the UK economy.
Out of office during the 1930s, Churchill took the lead in calling for British rearmament to counter the growing threat from Nazi Germany. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was re-appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. Following Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's resignation in 1940, Churchill replaced him. Churchill oversaw British involvement in the Allied war effort, resulting in victory in 1945. His wartime leadership has been widely praised; however, several of his decisions have proved controversial. After the Conservatives' defeat in the 1945 general election, he became Leader of the Opposition. Amid the developing Cold War with the Soviet Union, he publicly warned of an iron curtain of Soviet influence in Europe and promoted European unity. He was elected prime minister in the 1951 election. His second term was preoccupied with foreign affairs, including the Malayan Emergency, Mau Mau Uprising, Korean War and a UK-backed Iranian coup. Domestically his government emphasised house-building and developed an atomic bomb. In declining health, Churchill resigned as prime minister in 1955, although he remained an MP until 1964. Upon his death in 1965, he was given a state funeral.
Widely considered one of the 20th century's most significant figures, Churchill remains popular in the UK and Western world, where he is seen as a victorious wartime leader who played an important role in defending liberal democracy from the spread of fascism. Also praised as a social reformer and writer, among his many awards was the Nobel Prize in Literature. In more recent years however, his imperialist views and comments on race, as well as his sanctioning of human rights abuses in the suppression of anti-imperialist movements seeking independence from the British Empire, have generated considerable controversy.