Episode 3 Hedley Boys "One of the biggest affairs Hedley has seen"
Hedley Boys, A Small Town's Big Part in the Great War
English - July 07, 2020 23:00 - 19 minutes - 13.8 MBHistory ww1 canada hedley cornwall mining town somme vimy ridge first world war british columbia military history Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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17 men leave Hedley on the same day and travel to Penticton to enlist in the C.E.F. Most end up in the 54th Kootenay Battalion at Vernon camp. There they complete basic training before sailing to England.