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Joe Bentley
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Meaford Sleeping In the Old Tank Hanger With Asbestoes Falling Like Snow
« on: August 28, 2005, 04:57:06 PM »

Does anyone recall sleeping in the Hanger In Meaford , I wonder how many died of cancer from that!!!!!


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« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2005, 05:25:57 PM »

Yes we spent many nights in that old hanger breathing in that stuff. It was like snow in there at times :'(The cooks used to prepare meals at the far end and we ate our food in there also, so we didnt just breath the stuff in we ate some to.


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Re: Meaford Sleeping In the Old Tank Hanger With Asbestoes Falling Like Snow
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2005, 06:02:11 AM »

Hello Joe: Yes, I remember the asbestos very well. When the sun shone in through the high windows we could see the flakes of asbestos sparkling in the light. That whole roof was removed in the big restoration in 1982-1983 and a new roof installed. Has anyone got any pictures of the hanger to post? The hanger is still there but is overshadowed by the massive building which now houses, troops, stores, offices and messes. Pro Patria, RT


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« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2005, 01:11:14 AM »

I'm the guy that got the building made out of bounds! There was a Militia Sgt. Maj. that was responsible for the range and I had it out with him about the proximity of the outhouses to the food prep area that the cooks used. I ended up telling him that if he didn't get the hygene techs out from Borden I'd get Dunphy up from London. I never even thought about asbestos. The next time that we were up they had the old Sgts Mess H hut banged into some sort of order for us. The next year the RE put up an ablution hut with an barrack block set for the future.


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« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2005, 08:29:28 PM »

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Meaford has been brought back to life in a dramatic change from the early 1980s. I was involved in the reclaimation of the land for DND in the years of 81-84. For the previous ten years Meaford had been abandoned by the military. There was a commissionaire at the gatehouse and the lone militia MWO to act as range control when an occasional exercise happened. The local population had come to regard Meaford area as a hunting, fishing and snowmobiling park. There were also a few military hunting safaris held in the training area which was well populated with deer. It was a tough job convincing the locals that the military was back in force in Meaford and several groups were charged with trespassing and illegal hunting offences by the MPs, OPPs and Natural Resources people. The RE Squadron from the U.K. was assigned to Meaford for two summers and did some good work. Just in passing, Ducks Unlimited, the international conservation group made some improvements to the wetlands of Meaford so that the migrating ducks and geese would have a better habitat to rest up in. That lone commissionaire in the gatehouse always had seven days of combat rations stashed in the guardhouse. When the big winter blizzards would blow in it was common for the range road to be snowbound for four or five days. The commissionaire who went on duty for one shift expecting to be home for supper sometimes had to spend almost a week in the guardroom until the the St. Vincents Township snowplow cleared the range road. Sometimes a company from 1 RCR got snowbound in Meaford at the end of an exercise and had to dig deep in the rucksacks to find rations. Sometimes the digging reached the garbage cans where the "useless" parts of the ration packs had been discarded before the snow came in.
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« Reply #5 on: October 02, 2005, 04:01:14 PM »

I remmber one year there was a snow storm right at the end of a EX and we wound up being shipped to Borden instead of London for the night. Some of the buses made it to London but ours and a few others took the shorter route. We had to walk down from the Camp to the highway to catch the bus Roll Eyes


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« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2005, 01:24:57 PM »

Yes Dave, I remember that well


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Re: Meaford Sleeping In the Old Tank Hanger With Asbestoes Falling Like Snow
« Reply #7 on: October 03, 2005, 02:55:55 PM »

I remember them days as well, in fact it was in 72 when finishing up an excercise and blowing snow and blocked roads halted our departure. Maj Dave Leslie OC of "D" Coy was going around to inform the Platoons and upon entering our tent found Sgts Mike Molloy, and Phil (Turtle) Anderson and myself digging through the garbage bags looking for some RP 4"s that we had disposed of. Talk about your Newfie joke, they were good times to say the least.
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1964-1965 RCR Depot North West Canada Pl,
A Coy 2 RCR London
1965-1968 B Coy 2 RCR Fort York Germany,
Promoted to Cpl 68.
1968-1973 D Coy 1 RCR London,
Promoted M\Cpl 69
1970 Cyprus
Promoted to Sgt 73
Took my release in Sep 1973 Rank Sgt
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