Malvernites After Malvern
Sonya Munro has been compiling material on what has happened to many Malvern graduates. We are interested in hearing from you if you would like to share any information with us. We will post your stories here with your permission. Please email us at archives@malverncollegiate.com.
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’50s alum Brian Tennyson, WW1 historian
Brian Tennyson, professor emeritus at Cape Breton University, Nova Scotia, was recently in Ontario visiting his brother Rod and the two Malvern alums joined David Fuller for a chat about Brian’s work as a historian with an interest in the First World War. [Video]
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Three brothers join the Royal Flying Corps
Combat in the air was still a novelty when Canada went to war in Aug 1914. It started with a need for improved reconnaissance and quickly escalated into aerial confrontations to prevent an army’s movements being discovered from the sky, as happened to the Germans at Mons, an event that is credited with helping prevent the encirclement of Paris and initiating the static trench war that followed.
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Malvern man won Croix de Guerre in 1918
This article, written for the Central Ontario Branch Western Front Association, features Malvern graduate Charles Frank Szammers.
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MRBS Veterans Historian speaks about Vimy at local history meetings
MRBS member David Fuller spoke to the Beach & East Toronto Historical Society on April 11, 2017 about the 100th Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge and the Malvern men who were involved.
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Vimy Centenary and the veterans of Malvern
In the Centenary of the First World War being marked between 2014 and 2018, no date will be more talked about than April 9, 1917, the day Canadian troops successfully attacked a seven-kilometre stretch of Northern France known as Vimy Ridge. Apart from the fact that upwards of 25,000 people are expected to travel to the memorial that now stands there on the 100th anniversary of the battle, it is also one of the most remembered dates in Canada’s 150-year history, including here in The Beach, home to the hundreds of local men who fought in the battle.
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MRBS President visits Malvern men’s graves in Germany
Vandra Masemann and her husband Volker were travelling in Germany this past January and made a detour to visit the Becklingen War Cemetery, where two Malvernites are buried.
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Malvern Collegiate’s Red and Black Society repairing books honouring students who fought in the Second World War
Beach Mirror By Joanna Lavoie Malvern Collegiate, an 111-year-old high school in the Upper Beach, is doing its part to honour those from the school who served in the Second World War, which Canada officially entered 75 years ago on Sept. 10, 1939, declaring war on Germany.
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Malvern grad killed in 1943 air raid among those honored by new memorial
Back in May of this year, a new memorial to the men and women killed in an air raid on May 23, 1943, in Bournemouth, England was unveiled. MCI grad Sgt. Ross Clifton Woods was among them. He was a personnel clerk at the RCAF reception centre where Canadian airmen stayed before being sent on their way to training units and then operational squadrons.
