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.
Memory and Valour
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Podcast Overview
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.
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Recent Episodes
June 27, 2026
32 - July 1st 1916: Newfoundland's Tragic Day on the Somme: The Hynes Brothers at Beaumont-Hamel
<p>On July 1st, 1916, the First Battalion of the Newfoundland Regiment went forward at Beaumont-Hamel. Of 801 men, there were 710 casualties in thirty minutes. Every officer down. </p><p>In this 110th anniversary episode, we follow two brothers — Harry and Alfred Hynes of F Company — from a railway town on the Gander River to the worst morning of the First World War. </p><p>One never came home. The other was wounded three times and carried a piece of German shrapnel for the rest of his life. </p><p>This is their story, and it's been a long time coming.</p><p><br></p>
June 14, 2026
31 - The Last Post: The Life and Afterlife of CFB Griesbach
<p>A thousand men in eight days. A parade square turned into a suburb with four little lakes. A bronze general on a horse that nobody who lives there can name.</p><p>His name was Griesbach. Edmonton's youngest-ever mayor, son of Canada's first Mountie, and the officer who raised the 49th Battalion in a single frozen week of 1915. </p><p>The north-Edmonton neighbourhood built on his old army base is now one of the city's most sought-after addresses, and almost nobody there knows what's buried beneath the front porches.</p><p>So we dig. </p><p>Down through bison country and Treaty 6 homeland; through the Forty-Niners who bled at the Somme and Passchendaele; among them Alex Decoteau, the Cree Olympic runner and Canada's first Indigenous police officer, killed carrying a message through the mud; through the Canadian Airborne Regiment, born on this very ground; the detention barracks nobody put in the brochure; and the village that now remembers its dead one street sign at a time.</p><p>Who was the man on the horse? And what does it mean to build your kitchen on a parade square?</p><p>Free self-guided walking tour + full sources: www.memoryandvalour.ca</p><p></p><p><br></p>
June 7, 2026
30 - Land Battleships: The Tank Comes to the Western Front
<p>In 1916, a German soldier watched the first tank loom out of the fog and ran for his life, screaming that a crocodile was crawling into the trenches.</p><p>This is the story of the tank on the Western Front, and it's a Canadian story from beginning to end. Canadians were there at the machine's terrifying combat debut at Courcelette in September 1916; the day before Chip Kerr of the 49th Battalion won his VC on the same ground, and Canadians were the spearhead at Amiens in August 1918, the "black day of the German Army," where the tank finally succeeded.</p><p>We climb inside the steel oven the crews actually fought in, sort the legend from the record, and hear from the men who were there, from the first British tank crews to a private of the 24th Battalion who rode the tanks forward at Amiens.</p><p>Memory and Valour — Where Memory Endures, Valour Lives On.</p><p></p>
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