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Oct 31, 2023 · Using his family letters as a starting point, Thomson roams through a century of folly, touching on areas of military history, art, literature, and science, to express the tragic human cost of war behind the order and calm of ceremonial parades, memorials, and monuments.
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Apr 6, 2023 · The Canadian actor tells Matt Galloway about his new memoir, By the Ghost Light: Wars, Memory, and Families, and why the way we talk about war and remember the fallen matters, as conflict rages on...
What insights emerge when we linger by the ghost light? Whose stories impress us with their significance, and whose spirits speak to us? These are questions that Canadian actor and playwright R.H. Thomson extends to the theatre of war in an ambitious new memoir reconstructing his family’s remarkable entanglement in the First World War –
Thomson is married with two sons. [5] Thomson has had a long-standing interest in Canada's military and war veterans. In 1995 he narrated a 3-part documentary series about Canada's involvement in international conflicts.
Nov 7, 2023 · In the eighteenth century, “taking the King’s shilling” referred to recruiting officers giving prospective soldiers an “earnest” (down payment) of a shilling. Once recruited, the new soldier would “attest” to serve the King and, on returning the shilling, would receive his soldier’s pay.
Apr 6, 2023 · Canadian stage and screen actor R.H. Thomson — best known for playing Jasper Dale in Road to Avonlea and as Matthew Cuthbert in Anne with an E — is making his author debut with a new memoir.
Nov 10, 2023 · At British Public Records Office, R.H. Thomson managed to track down logs to explain how the Royal Air Force had rescued his father's convoy. Courtesy of R.H. Thomson. A number of years ago...
