Stephen J. Thorne, Author at Legion Magazine https://legionmagazine.com Wed, 02 Jul 2025 17:34:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://legionmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/cropped-favicon-LM-32x32.jpg Stephen J. Thorne, Author at Legion Magazine https://legionmagazine.com 32 32 Continental army barracks burned by British discovered in Colonial Williamsburg https://legionmagazine.com/continental-army-barracks-burned-by-british-discovered-in-colonial-williamsburg/ https://legionmagazine.com/continental-army-barracks-burned-by-british-discovered-in-colonial-williamsburg/#respond Wed, 02 Jul 2025 15:32:19 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=96294 Archeologists in Colonial Williamsburg, Va., are exploring the remains of a continental army barracks burned by the British during the Revolutionary War. The researchers have unearthed bricks and artifacts, including parts of weapons, ceramics, a belt buckle and a glass button. They also found lead musket balls riddled with teeth marks, apparently left by bored …

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Pictures from my father’s wartime photo album https://legionmagazine.com/pictures-from-my-fathers-wartime-photo-album/ https://legionmagazine.com/pictures-from-my-fathers-wartime-photo-album/#respond Tue, 24 Jun 2025 14:52:44 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=96208 I was raised on stories and pictures of the Second World War. My father, Dr. Edward L. Thorne, was an air force medical officer who served three of his five Royal Canadian Air Force years (1942-45) overseas with fighter, coastal and bomber squadrons. The experience shaped the rest of his life. And all of mine. …

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Canada to meet defence spending target by March 2026: Carney https://legionmagazine.com/canada-to-meet-defence-spending-target-by-march-2026-carney/ https://legionmagazine.com/canada-to-meet-defence-spending-target-by-march-2026-carney/#respond Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:31:39 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=96173 Declaring American dominance on the world stage at an end, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Canada will meet NATO’s two per cent-of-GDP military spending target by March 2026—six years earlier than originally planned. It will be the first time Canada’s defence spending has hit the two per cent mark since 1990. Now NATO says it …

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Dig this: The lowly shovel held in high esteem by soldiers https://legionmagazine.com/dig-this-the-lowly-shovel-held-in-high-esteem-by-soldiers/ https://legionmagazine.com/dig-this-the-lowly-shovel-held-in-high-esteem-by-soldiers/#respond Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:27:02 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=96098 Ask a veteran of virtually any wartime infantry what piece of kit is valued most, and chances are they’ll say their shovel. Yes, the lowly shovel, known in military parlance as the entrenching, or intrenching, tool, also called a trenching tool, or simply e-tool—any way you call it, the shovel, or spade, has provided shelter, …

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Ceremony marks 25th anniversary of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier https://legionmagazine.com/ceremony-marks-25th-anniversary-of-the-tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier/ https://legionmagazine.com/ceremony-marks-25th-anniversary-of-the-tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier/#respond Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:55:11 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=95994 A quarter century ago, an unidentified Canadian soldier killed at the seminal First World War Battle of Vimy Ridge was ceremonially exhumed from his grave 8.5 kilometres away in Cabaret Rouge British Cemetery and brought home to Canada. Vimy, because it was here, in France in April 1917, that all four divisions of the Canadian …

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Wartime attacks on health-care workers and facilities on steep rise https://legionmagazine.com/wartime-attacks-on-health-care-workers-and-facilities-on-steep-rise/ https://legionmagazine.com/wartime-attacks-on-health-care-workers-and-facilities-on-steep-rise/#respond Wed, 28 May 2025 15:02:14 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=95960 Attacks on clinics, hospitals and health-care workers in conflict zones numbered more than 3,600 in 2024, a 62 per cent increase in two years, says a new report. More than a third of the attacks targeted Gaza or the West Bank; hundreds more were recorded in Ukraine, Lebanon, Myanmar and Sudan. The report “Epidemic of …

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By the numbers: Who contributed, and sacrificed, the most in WW II? https://legionmagazine.com/by-the-numbers-who-contributed-and-sacrificed-the-most-in-ww-ii/ https://legionmagazine.com/by-the-numbers-who-contributed-and-sacrificed-the-most-in-ww-ii/#respond Wed, 21 May 2025 17:29:59 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=95907 The American president outraged a host of Allied nations recently when he claimed the United States “won World War 2” and should be celebrating the fact. Donald Trump made the statement after a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron who, he said, told him France was “celebrating our victory over the Germans.” “Oh, that’s …

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Archeologists discover suspected graves of massacred Black Civil War unit https://legionmagazine.com/archeologists-discover-suspected-graves-of-massacred-black-civil-war-unit/ https://legionmagazine.com/archeologists-discover-suspected-graves-of-massacred-black-civil-war-unit/#respond Tue, 13 May 2025 15:02:42 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=95851 In January 1865, just over three months before the U.S. Civil War ended, the 80 men of Company ‘E,’ 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry, were ordered to drive 900 cattle 140 kilometres west from their base at Camp Nelson in Kentucky to Louisville. Louisville was a Union stronghold and operations base for the war’s western theatre—the …

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Bites on Roman gladiator’s skeleton first hard proof of combat with lion https://legionmagazine.com/bites-on-roman-gladiators-skeleton-first-hard-proof-of-combat-with-lion/ https://legionmagazine.com/bites-on-roman-gladiators-skeleton-first-hard-proof-of-combat-with-lion/#respond Wed, 07 May 2025 14:47:59 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=95751 Archeologists say puncture wounds and other bite marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in England are the first hard evidence that gladiators fought animals—in this case a lion—in Europe.    The evidence suggests the man was killed during a gladiator show or execution, and that the big cat gnawed on his …

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Who knit ya? https://legionmagazine.com/who-knit-ya/ https://legionmagazine.com/who-knit-ya/#respond Thu, 01 May 2025 15:56:00 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=95620 How the road to victory in Europe changed Newfoundland

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