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#1
13-10-16, 10:31 PM
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Various Officers..../16
© IWM (Q 110395)
Wearing what looks like the 29th Battalion badge,2nd patt. One of the Canadian officers, Major, staff in the Polish Army camp at Niagara-on-the-Lake, 15 January 1919. http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/385/55...at=photographs © IWM (HU 124874) Major C E Reynolds DSO MC. 29th Battalion,CEF. http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/433/95...at=photographs © IWM (HU 124787) Major R M Redmond. 60th Battalion,CEF. http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/433/94...at=photographs © IWM (HU 125399) Major L B Unwin. Unit: 1st Battalion,CEF. http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/445/17...at=photographs © IWM (HU 126975) Major W K Walker DSO MC. Royal Canadian Dragoons. http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/445/45...at=photographs © IWM (HU 127040) Major C C Wansbrough DSO. http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/445/58...at=photographs © IWM (HU 127387) Major W O White MC. 2nd Battalion,CEF. http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/446/80...at=photographs © IWM (HU 124672) Major J L Ralston DSO. Unit:85th Battalion (Nova Scotia Regiment), CEF. http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/433/59...at=photographs © IWM (HU 119347) Wearing cloth pips.... Major C Tupper. http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/442/62...at=photographs
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#2
14-10-16, 01:51 AM
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During his time as CO, LCol Ralston was wounded; his younger brother, Ivan, was the second-in-command and temporarily assumed command after his evacuation. Ivan was killed two days later leading the battalion in an attack. LCol Ralston with "Officers, 85th Canadian Infantry Battalion. January, 1919" http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_a...opy=a004107-v8 Colonel the Honourable J.L. Ralston, Minister of National Defence, inspecting paratroopers of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, Chobham, England, 3 August 1943. http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_a...opy=a205354-v6
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#3
14-10-16, 02:51 PM
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Don't get creative.
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Courtesy of The Canadian Forces: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-.../lineages.html Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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#5
15-10-16, 01:00 PM
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Very beautiful 2nd issue cap badge for Major Reynolds.
I would like to have one. JPV
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#6
17-10-16, 03:08 PM
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Excellent pictures, thanks
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