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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
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CSM Thurston.
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1 RCR - 78-81
4 RCR - 86-96
OP Snowgoose 52
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Jim Hickson
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Hi Rick
Yes Peter Thurston is right!!!
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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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Bob Cooper
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Also known as Peachy Cheeks.
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Jim Hickson
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Hey there Bob!! What you doing come on here as a GUEST? Come on that's not the way to sneak your opinion in. LOLOL I put up some photo's that would get your attention. Come on now sign up!! LOLOL
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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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Tony Giacomelli
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Front Row L-R WO P.E. Thurston Maj. M.U. Kelly P-Coy Meaford 1974
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Jim Hickson
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Hi Tony
The whole of P Coy! I was in CFOCS at that time but I worked with a couple of Guards you might know. Here is a picture of them. Wally Fowler and Vic Hancock. I was to instruct in French and that's OK because I come from Montreal. If you didn't speak french well!!!!!! Actually, my Grandmother was french. CFOCS (CF Officer Candidate School) was where all officers took phase 1 training.
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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Jim, good to hear from you I am a member forgot my password have it again memory came back old age. Hope all is well with you and Norma.
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Enlisted 1963 Black Watch. Served with 2RCR, ! RCR, 2 CDO, Instructed Cornwallis, RSS Staff with ! NSH [N] and SD&G Highlanders. Retired 1989 from Cornwall, Ontario. {WO} Joined Reserves in 1991 West Nova Scotia Regiment, B Coy. CSM. CFR to Captain, Company Commander B Coy and Admin and Support Company. Retired from Reserves in 1996.
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Jim Hickson
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Hi Bob
LOL..... I figured that LOL. Things are going super!!! Well? How about you? A good SITREP would be fine!! I'm spending a lot time on this PC 'cause it's cold outside. -49c today and that was on the radio but --53c on my thermometer on the window in the back of the house. I'll keep nice and warm inside. Still going to Speech Classes and Chiropractor sessions. It's been 4 yrs in April I had the stroke! Speech is getting better but I have a way to go. Oh well, I'll push on. Pro Patria!
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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Jim, glad to hear that things are comming along. As for me I am still busy, head of security for the Province, and been busy training Departmental Security Officers. Also Board of Director for Zone 3 of the Native Council of Nova Scotia. Total knee replacement 2 years ago better than it was but not 100%, and Type 2 Dibaties however getting older so much for the Golden Years.
Have a few formar Royals working with me Jim Fraser is one you may know.
Take care.
Bob
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Enlisted 1963 Black Watch. Served with 2RCR, ! RCR, 2 CDO, Instructed Cornwallis, RSS Staff with ! NSH [N] and SD&G Highlanders. Retired 1989 from Cornwall, Ontario. {WO} Joined Reserves in 1991 West Nova Scotia Regiment, B Coy. CSM. CFR to Captain, Company Commander B Coy and Admin and Support Company. Retired from Reserves in 1996.
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Mike Blais
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Keep up the good fight, Jim.
Bob, say hello to the other (Jim Fraser) for me.
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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!
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Question . . . I see Van Doos, Royals and, I think, one Picklie and all are wearing gongs. But why not sashes? In other pix I see gongs and sashes so I'm confused. What is the protocol for the wearing of the sash by infantry Senior NCOs/WOs?
Cheers.
Al
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I think the Van Doo WO in the front row might be WO Denis Gosselin that I worked with at the leadership academy....
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RCN 55 to 60, Hmcs Magnificent,Crusader, Thunder, Bonaventure. transferred to RCR depot 1960 Amiens platoon..1961 Jnr NCO course..Delta Coy, Ipperwash,
promoted Cpl..1961..Det Comd/A/Tank..C coy Germany 1962, 1963-66 Int Sec Germany..1967 Int sec Cyprus..1968..Jungle Warfare School ..69-70 PMC Jnr Ranks Club..70-73 Cornwallis..74-Cyprus. to Borden CFR to Lt-Borden..Captain..CFLA 75 to 80..Adjt RCR Battle School 80-81, RSS HF of C
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Jim Hickson
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Hi Rick
Yes that's Denis Gosselin!!
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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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Jim Hickson
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Hi Al
The date was 1973 and we had lost all Regimental accouterments except for the cap badge. In a 'no hat place' like inside at work or even the Mess, you didn't have anything to let you know what Corps the fella belonged to if you didn't know him. I never wore a Sash all the time I was at CFOCS. The pictures below show the Dress Policy for when I was there, 1973 - 1977. CD (Gongs) do not qualify you to wear a sash. The rank of Sgt does. As you see:
1973 Queen's Guard without CD with sash. Posted to CFOCS
1974 Without CD no sash
1975 with CD no sash
1977 Promotion
1977 with CD No sash
1977 Home again with CD and sash
1986 with CD and no sash
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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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Jim,
Thanks for that illustrated explanation. I had to ask because the old brain cells couldn't quite wrap around the comings and going of the accoutrements in the pix. In the Guards all senior NCOs wore the sash all the time, except for Lance-Sergeants, but that was a regimental quiff and after 20 years on civvie street i've lost touch with the protocol.
I remember those bad old days of no badges and how everybody yearned for some form of group identification. In 1973 Bud Dion and I were students at the Tri-Service staff school and when it came time for the course mess dinner we said f*** it and punched holes in our mess kit jacket lapels to put the beavers up. We got some odd looks but nobody said anything and since there were few infantry reps on staff -- and none of the Eight-pointed Star persuasion -- we got away with it. The authority to add badges came some time after that but I'm not so vain as to think we had anything to do with it. Somebody -- I think it might have been Jadex -- finally realized that the essence of morals is individual recognition, group identfication and purposeful activity. I learned that at army cadet camp in 1957 and never forgot it but clearly the Hellyer yes-men never learned it.
This Regimental message board is a great place for old farts like us to catch up on the changes that have occurred since we hung up our soldier suits for the last time. Obviously a lot has happened since then.
Al
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Top picture, Jim. Is that Tom Bale on the right?
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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!
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Oops. Obviously, I meant "morale", not "morals." Clearly, the fingers are working as poorly as the brain. Apologies to all.
Al
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Jim Hickson
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Hi Mike
I take it you mean the 3 Sgts. No it isn't.
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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