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willy bowers
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RECCE PLATOON THE EYES AND EARS OF THE BATTALION
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Aldore McIntyre
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Hi Willy
My Barrack too haha. Email me that picture
Aldore
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1962 Ameins Pl London
1962-65 1 RCR Soest
1965-66 London
1966-67 Cyprus
1967-72 1 RCR London
1972-77 Remuster MSE London
1977-78 2 SVC Pet
1978-79 2 FD Amb Pet
1979-82 Jr Leadership School Summerside Instructor
1982-87 Base TpT Lahr, NCO I/C User section, Chief Dispatcher, NCO I/C Buses, NCO I/C Refuelling
1987-92 CFB Gagetown,User Section WO, SPV WO, Safety WO
1992-96 CFB Chatham, TpT Controller
1996-Present semi retired
check it out www.escuminacbeach.com
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Mike Blais
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A ROYAL CANADIAN "NEVER PASSES A FAULT"
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Another good picture.
Tell me, Willy, what year would this be and how many royals do you think were posted at the base then. Being a young whelp, the base was used mostly as a training area in my time so I am more familiar with the boonies and the sergeants mess! bwahahahahaaaaaa...j/k
I wonder what the base looks like now? I heard some of barracks burned down.
I did spend an great summer there during the year of the hundredth working for one of the greatest Royals I ever had the pleasure to serve with, one Wally Turple. As you might imagine, Myself and the twenty some odd members of the First and Finest ;-) who were delegated for summer tasking were kind of dissappointed having to be away from London when just down the road every royal who could was rallying to the call of the celebration of one hundred years of service.
The day of meet and greet, Wally gets me to assemble the troops. Uncharacteristically, he's not to happy looking or talkative. I thought one of the lads, er, screwed up on the beach or in Thedford over night er something, after all, boys will be boys, and it was time for the regular force must set the example speech (Absolutely unnecessary, I can assure you!) .... he calls us to attention, scowls like only he could do, then breaks out a four day pass for every damn one of us!!!!! needless to say, we were very grateful and, to a man, arrived in London in plenty of time to enjoy the reunion to the fullest.
Hell of a time to be a Royal, boys! Hell of a time!
Pro Patria, Mike.
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1RCR 1977-79 Depot (Italy PL), B Coy, Mortars, Pioneers, D Coy (CFB London)
3RCR 1979-82 M Coy, Pipes & Drums, Sigs, Mortars. (CFB Baden-Soellingen)
1RCR 1982-88 Mortars. Dukes, Cyprus-Welfare NCO 84-85, Injured, WO&Sgts Mess, (CFB London)
1988-92 Med-remuster to HELL/ 35 DU, CFB Baden
1992 Medical release. God Bless you all!
Pro Patria
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Jim Hickson
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Hi Willy
The 1st shack I lived in after I passed Jr NCO training. ONE HARD COURSE!!! HAHAHA
Jim Hickson
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1961-Depot San Lenorado
1962-1st Bn RCR Ex Gagetown
1962-JR NCO Course Grad 19 Oct
1962-1965 Germany B-C-D-A Coy (Revecated Nov 64)
1965-1967 Sigs Pl Cyprus Prom CPL 'til xmas and C of Drums
1967-1973 Cpl, MCpl, Sgt, Sigs, D Coy
1973-1977 CFOCS Chilliwack Prom WO
1977-1982 UEO, Sigs, Pl WO RECCE, CSM B&A Coy,
1982-1984 SIT School
1984-1988 Career Manager (Prom CWO 1986)
1988-1990 RSM 1RCR
1991-1995 CWO Adm(Per) - C Of S
1995-1999 Base CWO Wainwright
1999-Retired
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willy bowers
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Hi Mike
The year this picture was taken is unknown to me. The last year the Camp was fully occuped was 1962 by the 1st Bn RCR we left Ipperwash for Fort York Germany Nov.62 after that the camp was used for training until it was handed over to the natives.
Pro Patria
Willy
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RECCE PLATOON THE EYES AND EARS OF THE BATTALION
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Jim Hickson
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Hi Willy
Looks about 1961/1962
Jim
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1961-Depot San Lenorado
1962-1st Bn RCR Ex Gagetown
1962-JR NCO Course Grad 19 Oct
1962-1965 Germany B-C-D-A Coy (Revecated Nov 64)
1965-1967 Sigs Pl Cyprus Prom CPL 'til xmas and C of Drums
1967-1973 Cpl, MCpl, Sgt, Sigs, D Coy
1973-1977 CFOCS Chilliwack Prom WO
1977-1982 UEO, Sigs, Pl WO RECCE, CSM B&A Coy,
1982-1984 SIT School
1984-1988 Career Manager (Prom CWO 1986)
1988-1990 RSM 1RCR
1991-1995 CWO Adm(Per) - C Of S
1995-1999 Base CWO Wainwright
1999-Retired
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Rick Rankine
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The camp that used to be all whitewash and shiny has been taken over by the Indians,overgrown with weeds, junk rusty cars all over the place, slogans written on the shacks, absolutely disgusting..Rick Rankine
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Jim Hickson
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Hi Rick
@$%&
Jim
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1961-Depot San Lenorado
1962-1st Bn RCR Ex Gagetown
1962-JR NCO Course Grad 19 Oct
1962-1965 Germany B-C-D-A Coy (Revecated Nov 64)
1965-1967 Sigs Pl Cyprus Prom CPL 'til xmas and C of Drums
1967-1973 Cpl, MCpl, Sgt, Sigs, D Coy
1973-1977 CFOCS Chilliwack Prom WO
1977-1982 UEO, Sigs, Pl WO RECCE, CSM B&A Coy,
1982-1984 SIT School
1984-1988 Career Manager (Prom CWO 1986)
1988-1990 RSM 1RCR
1991-1995 CWO Adm(Per) - C Of S
1995-1999 Base CWO Wainwright
1999-Retired
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Hugh Conway
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Hi Jim and Rick, I never saw the place in the summer. The property was expropriated from Kettle Point reserve under the War Measures Act in 1939. Scattered around at the present time, as well as derilict cars, are a bunch of unexploded ammunition, I agree Rick, discusting. Hugh Conway
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1961 RCR Depot, 1 RCR '61 to '65 - Coy Sig & Sect Comd, '65 to '68 NZ Army Int Duties, '68 to '73 Cdn AB Regt Pathfinder, '73 to '75 C Int C 421 Ftr Sqn. '75 to '83 MWO L Edmn R, '83 to '91 commissioned.
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Ron McConnell
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This picture wa s taken in 1959-1960, summer time. I was there as an Army Cadet with the Grey and Simcoe Foresters(A Tank Regiment) Tent at the rear of the camp were used as lecture room for the cadet training which happened each summer. Some of you will remember we of 1RCR had to leave the camp for summer exercises to make room for the cadets. We came back from Gagetown in 1962 and had to change clothes behind the huts and go on leave. Then returned from leave to get ready for deployment to Germany that fall. At the time this picture was taken the shacks were wooden with shingle siding, later they were upgaded on the outside with alluminun siding and inside with tile floors, camp looked great till the late 1970s. I was last stationed there in the summer of 1973. You should see the site of the place now since the natives took over the camp.......
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