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Alex Bowers
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Staff writer for Legion Magazine | Telling Canada's wartime stories | Brit living in N.S., Canada | Married to Annie | http://buymeacoffee.com/alexbowers 🏳️‍🌈
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Canadian Private George Lawrence Price, 25, died at 10:58 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918 - two minutes before the end of hostilities in the Great War. For my latest Legion Magazine article, I spoke to Canadian War Museum historian Teresa Iacobelli about his final moments.

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November 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Records have it - at least currently - that 381 Canadians died in Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944. However, in my latest Legion Magazine interview with historian @seaspitfires.com - the second of two parts - he argues that there could be 382.

📸 Stephen Fisher.

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November 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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In my latest Legion Magazine article - the first of two parts - I interview British historian and author Stephen Fisher (@seaspitfires.com) about the forgotten Canadians who fought not at Juno, but Sword Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

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📸 Bantam Books.
November 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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My tribute to the late, great Canadian military historian Dr. Tim Cook in Legion Magazine.

I truly believe I would not be where I am now without him. Here's to you, sir, and thank you for everything.

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📸 Marie Louise Deruaz
October 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with military historian and educator-turned-children’s book author, Kelsey Lonie. Her debut tome, Whitey’s Journey, tells the true story of a Canadian dog mascot in WW II.

📸 Heritage House Publishing

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October 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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In May 2025, I covered The Royal Canadian Legion's 57th Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command convention hosted in my hometown of Antigonish, N.S., for Legion Magazine. The article is now online!

📸 Annie Bowers/LM.

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October 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with historian Debbie Jiang, who played a pivotal role in getting two Japanese-Canadian soldiers, Pte. Hikotaro Koyanagi and Pte. Kazuo Harada, added to the Richmond, B.C., Cenotaph.

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📸 Courtesy of Debbie Jiang
October 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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I'm looking for expert interviewees to talk about Gordon Flowerdew, who earned the Victoria Cross in what many have called the "last Canadian cavalry charge," the Battle of Moreuil Wood on March 30, 1918.

📸 Wikipedia / Canadian War Museum.
September 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Any research avenue recommendations for the Anglo-Canadian occupation of Iceland during the Second World War? (Yes, I know the U.S. were there, too).
September 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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A fiery footnote in history, the July 1945 Bedford Magazine explosion almost became a second Halifax disaster 27 years after the first.

Check out my latest Legion Magazine feature, now online!

legionmagazine.com/not-again/

📸 J.C.M. Hayward/Nova Scotia Archives/Wikimedia
August 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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In my latest Legion Magazine article, I spoke to Canadian historian David O'Keefe about a suspicious WW II aircrew loss. “This is the most intriguing story I’ve ever come across," he said.

You can find a teaser to the tale here.

legionmagazine.com/historian-da...

📸 Northernsky Entertainment
August 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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In my latest Legion Magazine article, I speak to author and historian Iain MacGregor about his tome, "The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb, and the Fateful Decision to Use It."

Learn about his fresh perspectives here.

legionmagazine.com/humanizing-t...

📸 Adrian Pope
August 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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In my latest Legion Magazine article, I speak to Canadian naval historian Roger Litwiller about the controversial recovery—or removal—of HMCS Trentonian's bell from its wreck site.

What's your opinion?

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📸 CFB Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum
July 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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In my latest Legion Magazine article, I interview sculptor Tyler Fauvelle about his newly twinned tribute to WW II trailblazer Fern Blodgett Sunde, now unveiled in the Norwegian town of Farsund.

Sunde was Canada's first female deep sea radio operator.

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July 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Yesterday, Annie held one-hour photoshoots for families and couples at Seafoam Lavender Company & Gardens near Tatamagouche. She aced it! Our dearest friends, Matt and Tory, also joined us for their own session. Would you be interested in participating next time she hosts again?
July 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Tatamagouche time!
July 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Discover how The Burns Way, a new digital peer-to-peer service, simplifies access to mental health support for Canadian veterans in my latest Legion Magazine column.

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July 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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(6/6) As an aside, it's nice to be sharing magazine space with my mentor Andy Saunders again. Andy put me on my writing career path over a decade ago. I owe him so much for that. His piece, "No Known Grave," details the search for the final resting place of a fallen Canadian pilot.
July 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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(5/6) Finally, "Food Fight" details how Canada's Second World War rationing was literally done by the book. I interviewed the Canadian War Museum's military historian and agricultural expert Stacey Barker about the five-year-long measures.
July 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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(4/6) My second feature is on Canada's Bedford Magazine explosion in July 1945, which almost became a second Halifax disaster 27 years after the first. Ultimately, the incident became little more than a footnote in history, a far better outcome than the alternative.
July 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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(3/6) I'm particularly proud of my feature on Japanese-Canadian Kanao Inouye, infamously known as the Kamloops Kid for his vengeful treatment of Canadian prisoners of war while serving Japan's Emperor Hirohito during WW II. His story, however, is unsettlingly nuanced.
July 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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(2/6) My Military Health Matters column is on The Burns Way, a digital peer-to-peer service simplifying veterans' access to mental health support. Its name honours retired private Earl Burns Sr., who died protecting his community amid a stabbing spree at James Smith Cree Nation.
July 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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🧵(1/6) The latest Legion Magazine is out now, including four of my articles.

The excellent cover feature, meanwhile, is by my friend Brad St. Croix (@otdmilhistory.bsky.social), detailing the life and legacy of Robert Hampton Gray, V.C.

Read on to find out what's within.
July 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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CIMVHR has released new children's books crafted to broaden understanding of service in a family setting. Veteran and retired astronaut Chris Hadfield narrates one on these stories.

Find out more in my latest Legion Magazine article!

legionmagazine.com/new-children...

📸 CIMVHR
July 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM