Dinner guests at the Tri-Service Ball seated and talking at a table.

Indoor elevated view of COTC officers in uniforms and hats standing at ease during break.

Indoor elevated view of COTC officers indoors in uniforms and hats standing at ease during break.

Portrait of Jack Mooney, COTC cadet, seated and dressed in uniform and hat.

Bio/Historical Note: "One of the chief prices which Canada paid in the last war for her lack of preparation was the tragic waste of thousands of her best young men killed while fighting in the ranks because they had not been previously trained for a more useful career as officers. It is to prevent such a waste in any possible future war that every Canadian University is now giving facilities to its students to qualify as officers during their undergraduate course. Our own contingent of the C.O.T.C. came to life in January of this year and is already recruited up to a strength of 170." (The Spectrum, 1921). The Canadian Officers' Training Corps was a unit in the Active Militia of Canada. The Corps prepared university students for the examinations for a Lieutenant's or Captain's Commission and the universities granted course credit for COTC work. Senior commissions were held by faculty while all junior commissioned and non-commissioned ranks were open to undergraduates. Interest in the Corps declined in the 1950s and came to an end in 1964.

Indoor posed image of three rows of COTC officers and cadets sitting and standing, wearing black armbands. Photographs and trophies on back wall.

Elevated view of COTC officers and cadets lined up in groups standing at attention while they shoulder their rifles inside Rutherford Rink. Flags and emblems in background; "No Smoking" signs hang from rafters.

Major General Brown inspecting COTC cadets in field uniforms and holding rifles at Saskatoon Armouries.

Presentation of an COTC award and congratulations to O/C Hill from Col. Moogh as O/C [Dmytro] Zypchen and Capt. J.H. Thompson look on. An indoor scene with trophies, magazines and pictures of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip in background.

Bio/Historical Note: "One of the chief prices which Canada paid in the last war for her lack of preparation was the tragic waste of thousands of her best young men killed while fighting in the ranks because they had not been previously trained for a more useful career as officers. It is to prevent such a waste in any possible future war that every Canadian University is now giving facilities to its students to qualify as officers during their undergraduate course. Our own contingent of the C.O.T.C. came to life in January of this year and is already recruited up to a strength of 170." (The Spectrum, 1921). The Canadian Officers' Training Corps was a unit in the Active Militia of Canada. The Corps prepared university students for the examinations for a Lieutenant's or Captain's Commission and the universities granted course credit for COTC work. Senior commissions were held by faculty while all junior commissioned and non-commissioned ranks were open to undergraduates. Interest in the Corps declined in the 1950s and came to an end in 1964.

Posed image of seven rows of COTC officers and cadets seated in front of Chemistry Building.

Elevated view of Captain Ross Brown, bandmaster with the COTC band, posing with their instruments at Saskatoon Armouries.

Elevated image of COTC band members standing in rows with their instruments. Other cadets visible at upper left and a unique wood burning stove in background at right. Taken at Saskatoon Armouries.

J.S. Thomson, University President, and Major John Wesley Joyce inspecting COTC cadets in front of the College Building; winter scene.