March/April 2025 issue

The March/April 2025 issue of Legion Magazine is out today! Look for it on newsstands or check your mailbox if you subscribe already.

UNTO THE BREACH

As the Germans unleashed warfare’s first major gas attack, untested Canadian troops held a critical gap in the front during the Second Battle of Ypres

CRERAR’S CAMPAIGN

General Harry Crerar oversaw just on major battle—but the decisive early 1945 advance into Germany’s Rhineland was critical to ending WW II

REGRET TO INFORM YOU

How the widow of a WW II soldier killed in action got the news

FISH CREEK IN FIRST PERSON

A visit to the site of one of the key battlegrounds of the 1885 Resistance offers a new perspective on the fight for the Canadian West

FIRST TROOP, CHARLIE SQUADRON, ROYAL CANADIAN DRAGOONS

Recollections from the diaries of a Canadian who helped liberate the Netherlands

THE PLAN

Canada’s instrumental roll in WW II’s British Commonwealth Air Training Plan

MOED EN VERTROUWEN

It means courage and confidence in Dutch. Mona Parsons, the only Canadian woman to be imprisoned by the German army during the Second World War, embodied the phrase.

THE ART OF THE WAR HORSE

First World War images of the trusty steeds in action

MILITARY HEALTH MATTERS

Demographic disparities

FRONT LINES

War footing

EYE ON DEFENCE

Trump’s card

FACE TO FACE

Did Donald Trump save NATO?

CANADA AND THE NEW COLD WAR

Russia’s Baltic bind

HUMOUR HUNT

Fowl play

HEROES AND VILLAINS

Harry Crerar and Alfred Schlemm

ARTIFACTS

Ceremonial spoil

O CANADA

Beaver fever