Memory and Valour

By Samantha L.G. McCrea

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Memory and Valour is a Canadian military history podcast exploring the human stories of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War (WW1). Through authentic diaries, letters, and archival research, each episode brings listeners into trench warfare, shell shock, conscription, battlefield tactics, and the lived experience of Canadian soldiers on the Western Front. This is Canadian WW1 history beyond the textbook — focused on courage, sacrifice, memory, and the families forever changed by war. Follow Memory and Valour for immersive Canadian First World War storytelling.

Episode Date
30 - Land Battleships: The Tank Comes to the Western Front
Jun 07, 2026
29 - One Man, Sixty-Two Prisoners: Remembering John Chipman Kerr's Victoria Cross at Courcelette
May 28, 2026
28 - Beyond Winged Warfare: Canadians in the Air, 1914–1918
May 22, 2026
27 - Fire on the Western Front: Flamethrowers, Trench Warfare, and the Canadian Experience
May 14, 2026
26 - Ellis Sifton VC: Vimy Ridge & the Man Behind the Moment With Historian Blair Ferguson
May 01, 2026
25 - What Canada Took from Our War Dead: The Hidden Story of Bodies, Medicine, and War
Apr 24, 2026
24 - Trench Humour: Slang, Satire, & Survival in the Canadian Expeditionary Force
Apr 15, 2026
23 - Vimy Ridge: Birth of a Nation, Cost of a Generation
Apr 09, 2026
22 - 1915: The Year Canada Lost the Illusion of War
Apr 04, 2026
21 - Warriors Without Rights: Indigenous Soldiers of the CEF
Mar 29, 2026
20 - The Barnbow Lasses: 35 Women, One Explosion, A Hidden Story
Mar 21, 2026
19 - Behind Barbed Wire: Canadian POWs and Internment Camps of WWI
Mar 16, 2026
18 - Mount Sorrel: Inside the Battle That Shook the Canadian Corps
Mar 08, 2026
17 - A Nation Divided: Canada’s Conscription Crisis of 1917
Mar 01, 2026
16 - Canada’s Shock Troops in WW1: Ruthlessness, Myth, and the Canadian Corps
Feb 22, 2026
15 - The War That Stayed: Shell Shock and Canadians in the First World War
Feb 16, 2026
14 - The Last Charge: Canada’s Cavalry in the Great War
Feb 08, 2026
13 - The Timberwolves’ Legacy: Indigenous Contributions in WWI Canada
Feb 04, 2026
12 - Poison Wind: Canada and the First Gas Attack
Jan 22, 2026
11 - Knighthood, Chaos, and the Vanished Cemetery - Listener's Choice
Jan 13, 2026
10 - Beaumont-Hamel: Courage, Loss & the Newfoundland Regiment
Jan 07, 2026
9 - Once A Patricia, Always A Patricia: Brotherhood, Sacrifice, & the PPCLI Legacy
Dec 31, 2025
8 - Voices in the Frost: The Story of the 1914 Christmas Truce
Dec 24, 2025
7 - Life in the Trenches: In Their Own Words
Dec 20, 2025
6 - Shot at Dawn: The Other Side of Valour
Dec 13, 2025
5 - A Runner's Bravery in the Great War - Pte. McDonald
Dec 07, 2025
4 - No Man’s Land: What Canadian Soldiers Faced Between the Trenches
Dec 02, 2025
3 - The Battle of Hill 70 & The Milburn Sacrifice
Nov 25, 2025
2 - Healing in the Hell of War: How Canadians Treated the Wounded
Nov 16, 2025
1 - Why Canada Remembers: Remembrance Day and the Cost of Service
Nov 09, 2025