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Commissioned Podcast Episodes now available!
Every family has one. A name on the back of a photograph. A medal in a drawer that nobody can quite explain. A story that got a little shorter every time it was told, until all that’s left is a rank and a rumour. 
Legacy Podcast Episodes put those stories back together.
It’s a fully researched, fully produced episode of Memory and Valour built around one person. Your person. 
Service records, war diaries, the ground they stood on, the world they came home to, or didn’t. All of it shaped into something your family can actually sit down and listen to, and hand forward. 
I know what that’s worth because I did it for my own. My cousin, Flying Officer Harry V. Smith, walked away from a crash landing in the jungle and made it out of Siam. For years he was a half-story told at family gatherings, usually by me. Now he’s an episode.
My family will still have him long after we’ve all forgotten how the telling went.
If there’s someone in your family who deserves more than a line on a certificate, send me a message. I’d love to meet them.
Where memory endures, valour lives on. 
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29 December 2025: New Book Release!
‘Once A Patricia, Always A Patricia’ is a brief history of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry.
Feedback from Mr. Don Levy, son of Lieutenant Mike Levy regarding the Memory and Valour podcast episode: Once A Patricia, Always A Patricia:
“Hello Samantha
I am one of Mike Levy’s sons. I came across your recent podcast on the PPCLI and wanted to offer my appreciation to you for the work you are doing to preserve the memories of our military veterans and by extension Canadian history. I look forward to reading your book on the Patricias and your future projects.
Don Levy”
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Welcome to the Memory and Valour connect and collaborate page, where the journey is as exhilarating as the destination, and every moment is an opportunity to make your mark.
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Who reads the burial service when the chaplain isn’t there? On 2 May 1915, near Essex Farm on the Yser Canal, the answer was a doctor named John McCrae. The poem he wrote the next day, “In Flanders Fields,” became the most famous poem of the First World War and the reason we wear a…
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Most of us picture the Hindenburg Line as a single great fortress that the Allies smashed through on one glorious day. It was never that. It was a system, built on purpose in the winter of 1916 and 1917 by German engineers and more than sixty-five thousand workers, most of them prisoners of war, and…
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Dogs never carried a rifle in the First World War, but by the end of it they were among the most effective pieces of military equipment either side had. This episode follows two very different jobs dogs were trained to do: mercy dogs, sent out alone into no man’s land to find the wounded and…
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