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29th and 72nd. officers and soldiers in front of St.Francis Hotel,Vancouver,ca.1914
City of Vancouver Archives,AM1535-: CVA 99-1088
Notice the two officers with pith helmet.Both have tartan patches on the side.
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Is that a tartan patch on the helmet of the mounted officer?
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Tartan Patch
Also the kilted officer on the right of the photo. Really great photo.
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Thanks - I couldn't make out if that officer was wearing a tartan rather than other coloured patch, now I've got to a larger screen I can see that it is, it looks like they were worn as a mirrored pair, rather than the angle of the sett being identical on both sides.
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Thank you very much.It's appreciated.
Jo
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I suspect that the two mounted officers are Honorary Lieutenant Colonel J.A. Macdonnell (wearing glengarry) and Lieutenant Colonel R.G. Edwards Leckie (pith helmet). This photo was probably taken soon after war was declared (note the ranks of men in civilian clothes with rifles at the shoulder) and before LCol Leckie departed for Valcartier with the contingent some of whom were incorporated into the 16th Battalion that he was to take overseas.
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"There truly exists but one perfect order: that of cemeteries. The dead never complain and they enjoy their equality in silence." - “There are things we know that we know,” “There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know.” Donald Rumsfeld, before the Iraqi Invasion,2003. Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. |
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