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October 13, 2015
Last Updated on: September 10, 2023
In this issue we highlight the service of Brigadier Henry Pybus Bell-Irving, OC, DSO, OBE, OBC, ED, CD, the seventh commanding officer of the The Loyal Edmonton Regiment’s overseas battalion during the Second World War, the death of Pte. Charles Alexander Purkiss at the Somme in September 1916 and his wife’s determination to learn more of her husband’s fate, and more.
December 16, 2021
Last Updated on: June 23, 2023
The Loyal Edmonton Regiment Military Museum is closed for most holidays.
April 29, 2021
Last Updated on: October 29, 2022
Our most current Annual Reports are available for viewing.
March 8, 2021
Last Updated on: July 11, 2022
By Ian Edwards
An important new book by our own Ian Edwards is now available. His book dives into the story of the Edmonton area Canadian Militia and its preparation to stop the aggression of the Central Powers of Europe. Follow the new Edmonton units as the officers and men came together as comrades within their own unique and cohesive battalions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, revealing their difficulties and successes mastering command and control, and adapting new tactical skills, weapons, uniforms and equipment.