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Jim Hickson
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Thought I would send you a photo I found at the top of the stair , in the Sgt's Mess ( London in 1992 )
It had apparently hung there for years exposed to day light , and as you can see is quite faded.
I have since searched high and low trying to find a copy in better shape but have had no luck...
If any one out there might have one, I sure would love a copy..
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Paul
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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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Leask
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Thanks Jim , Most appreciate.
Paul
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Nice fix up Jim.. brightens the faces and color up.. an historic pic as are all you put up here.. thanks..ranrad
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RCAF,CAF, converted RCR?,1RCR 74-77 CD: SSM (Nato);CPSM,;UN-Cyp.; UN- Golan
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Jim Hickson
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Hi Paul & Ron
You're welcome......
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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RSM Ted Slaney 2nd from left top row, RSM "Blinky" Keegan end of bottom row on the right. I presented Mr Keegan with a brief case from the Cpl's Mess 1 RCR in Germany in 1963 upon the occasion of his commissioning. Soon after he returned to Canada he passed away. RIP
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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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Some old faces;
Front Row:
R2-Gen Foulkes (Col of Regt); R3-HRH; R4-DB Weldon (HLCol 3RCR)
Rear Row:
R3-Capt Purcell (Dir of Music); R4-Bob Price (RSM 3RCR)
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Web brings 90 years of war stories to life
The ink on cherished family photos and letters from loved ones who fought in the Great War has faded in the 90 years since the Armistice. But modern has technology made "leaps and bounds" in an effort to preserve rare artifacts and changing the way we access our collective history.
First World War veteran Gordon Boyd admires one of the Books of Remembrance in the Chapel on Parliament Hill in Ottawa back in November 1998 before the books were digitized. (THE CANADIAN PRESS / Tom Hanson)
Stefania Moretti
Traditionally, all military records have been stored in vast and dingy warehouses by Libraries and Archives Canada in Ottawa. Digging up the intimate details about veterans used to include a trip to the capital, an appointment with an archivist and not to mention countless hours of sifting through stacks of dusty old documents.
Since the late 1990s however, tens of thousands of official military files and first-hand accounts of war have been restored, digitized and permanently archived to the web.
Now, the personal journeys of soldiers can easily be explored with the click of a mouse from a family living room or local library.
Preservation technology has taken "leaps and bounds" thanks to digital media, said Gordon Jung, a web specialist for Libraries and Archives Canada.
Thanks to Jung and a team of about 10 archivists at the library, nearly 1,600 hours of audio and video conversations with veterans long since passed can be accessed through the "Heroes Remember" online catalog.
Photos, handwritten diaries and letters continue to pour in from across the country and are being uploaded to the web regularly.
The artifacts offer a rare glimpse into the horrors of trench warfare and the camaraderie of soldiers for Canadians living decades later.
But historian's work is never done and the web team at Libraries and Archives Canada has only begun to scratch the surface.
"We're playing catch up," Jung said.
Of the more than 10,000 First World War photographs handed over by the Ministry of Defence to Jung and his team, only 2,200 have been uploaded to the web. There are literally thousands more private family photos to collect and post as well.
"It's like a detective work trying to find them all," Jung said, adding sometimes the task seems "daunting."
But producing good quality replicas is critical, he said.
"A good storage facility will keep the physical artifacts stable for a decent amount of time," he said. "But things wear out so we want a least one digitized copy of the original."
Eventually all the nitrate reels, negatives and handwritten originals will be locked away for good because they'll be too brittle for use.
Documenting each different war presents unique challenges for archivists. Each era's passing technology means they must adapt their safeguarding techniques.
Photos from the First World War require extra care. They are among the rarest and most fragile because of the limited camera technology of the time.
"As you go through the mid 20th and 21st centuries we produce more and more documentation as a society, and it can be overwhelming," Jung said.
But the biggest challenge, Jung said, is not having the right tools for the job.
"I've realized you can't throw away your old tape recorder, or your old vinyl record player, or your old eight track machine," he said.
Even a reel in mint condition is useless if you don't have the means to play it, he said.
"If you decide to throw away a technology, oh boy, you better digitize it first."
Jung estimates he spent at least 80 per cent of his time for six months working on the oral histories for the "Canadian Virtual War Memorial" now available on the Veterans Affairs website.
The memorial is an online registry with files on the more than 116, 000 Canadians who died in service during the First and Second World Wars and another 1,500 who have died since the Korean War.
A wartime letter written by Captain Bellenden S. Hutcheson found in an old family trunk in 1989 and later uploaded to the web is just one example of how the archives are bringing forgotten stories back from the grave.
In it, Hutcheson vividly describes tending to the fallen in the First World War battle at Vimy Ridge.
"The gas used that day was the deadly sweetish smelling phosgene. It was my first experience with gas in warfare," wrote Hutcheson.
"The whole thing seemed rather unreal, particularly when it occurred to me, busy as I was, that the killing was being done deliberately and systematically."
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Fred Doucette
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Hi
There is a framed copy of this pic in the St Andrews Barracks Officers Mess (2RCR) in Gagetown, there is also a list of who is in the photo with it. Take care.
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I hope someone down in the G town can get a good photo of it and perhaps send it to Jim.. this a real historic photo...i have myself copied the one Paul put oup and Jim doctored as best possible.. thanks to them for getting it up here... ranrad
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Fred Doucette
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Hi
I'll see what I can do, take care .
Fred
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Jim Hickson
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Hi Fred D
Give it a Good try! Take care yourself.
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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I would certainly be willing to pay Fred for a print and for his time...!!
Thanks for the info.
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Paul
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Back in '92, the Manager of the Sgt's Mess was kind enough to lend me this faded old print .
I took it to Ed Duffney over at the RCR Museum to see if they might have a better copy, they did not...
From there I took it to a photo lab near the Base, where I was going to have it duplicated..
The Lab asked me if I wanted a copy from the original negative... as they knew who took this photo.
Turns out the photographer had passed away but his partner got in touch with the mans daughter who had possession of the negatives....
Unfortunately, the daughter did not want them and threw them in the garbage..
One mans junk another mans treasure
Paul 
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Paul:
That is indeed very bad news in your last message. The photographer you spoke of was a chap named Doug Kirk. He took almost all of the official Regimental photographs from about 1955 to around 1990. I had always hoped that his negatives would be found preserved somewhere as they would have been a treasure trove. Doug had been a soldier in the Regiment in the early 1950s and after release he went into business as a photographer. His Regimental connections ensured that he got most of the important RCR assignments such as troopings and Royal visits. His main "day job" for years was as the photographer for St. Josephs Hospital in London. He would take photos of all of the important surgical procedures and autopsies. When I was posted back to London in 1989 I wanted to get a copy of a picture taken in the Sgts Mess around 1970. I got in touch with Doug who was retired through bad health by then and drove to his home in the Riverside Drive area of London. For a nominal fee he gave me a fresh colour print of the photo I wanted from almost 20 years before. Doug passed away shortly thereafter. As stated before, that is very bad news that his 35 years or so of negatives went into the garbage. All the best to Paul Leask and to all Royal Canadians--wherever you may be. RT
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