Legion Magazine Mar/Apr 2025 Back Issue

UNTO THE BREACH
As the Germans unleashed warfare’s first major gas attack, untested Canadian troops held a critical gap in the front during the Second Battle of Ypres

CRERAR’S CAMPAIGN
General Harry Crerar oversaw just on major battle—but the decisive early 1945 advance into Germany’s Rhineland was critical to ending WW II

REGRET TO INFORM YOU
How the widow of a WW II soldier killed in action got the news

FISH CREEK IN FIRST PERSON
A visit to the site of one of the key battlegrounds of the 1885 Resistance offers a new perspective on the fight for the Canadian West

FIRST TROOP, CHARLIE SQUADRON, ROYAL CANADIAN DRAGOONS
Recollections from the diaries of a Canadian who helped liberate the Netherlands

THE PLAN
Canada’s instrumental roll in WW II’s British Commonwealth Air Training Plan

MOED EN VERTROUWEN
It means courage and confidence in Dutch. Mona Parsons, the only Canadian woman to be imprisoned by the German army during the Second World War, embodied the phrase.

THE ART OF THE WAR HORSE
First World War images of the trusty steeds in action


MILITARY HEALTH MATTERS
Demographic disparities

FRONT LINES
War footing

EYE ON DEFENCE
Trump’s card

FACE TO FACE
Did Donald Trump save NATO?

CANADA AND THE NEW COLD WAR
Russia’s Baltic bind

HUMOUR HUNT
Fowl play

HEROES AND VILLAINS
Harry Crerar and Alfred Schlemm

ARTIFACTS
Ceremonial spoil

O CANADA
Beaver fever