University Remembrance Day Ceremonies
- A-1233
- Stuk
- 11 Nov. 1956
Remembrance Day ceremony showing officers, cadets, wreaths, the Memorial Tablet, and campus buildings.
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University Remembrance Day Ceremonies
Remembrance Day ceremony showing officers, cadets, wreaths, the Memorial Tablet, and campus buildings.
Dinners and Dining - Tri-Service Ball
Dinner guests at the Tri-Service Ball seated and talking at a table.
Armed Forces - Reserve Training Units
[Balfour] and J.B. Mawdsley and shaking hands with naval equipment in background.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Group Photo
Three rows of officers and cadets sitting and standing in a [gymnasium]. Man in front row is holding a trophy; three women seated in front row. Those identified: John Bachynsky (sixth from left); Don Angle (seventh); Jack Summers (eighth), J. Francis Leddy (ninth); John Wesley Joyce (tenth); Allan Pettigrew (eleventh), Otto Lang (twelfth).
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.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Award Presentation
Presentation of an COTC award and congratulations to O/C Hill from Col. Moogh as O/C 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.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Group Photo
Three rows of COTC cadets and officers standing and sitting. Names included are George Rea, Major John S.M. Allely, Weeks, John Wesley Joyce and Merriman. Indoor scene with flags, trophies and photographs of military personnel; photographs of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip on background wall.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Inspection
Outdoor winter scene with dignitaries standing on podium (l to r): Major John S.M. Allely; J.S. Thomson, University President; Norman K. Cram, University Registrar. E. Bruce McCorkell stands next to podium. Major John Wesley Joyce and Marcel de la Gorgendiere stand in foreground..
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.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - At Ease
Elevated view of COTC officers in uniforms and hats standing at ease during break.
"Climbing into a T33 Silver Star jet trainer, Flight Cadet Lila Palmer, Arts '58, is handed a jet helmet by Flight Cadet Shirley Clay, Pharm '58. The two girls are training with the R.C.A.F. under the reserve university training plan. They will return to the University of Sask. in the fall."
Bio/Historical Note: Image found in The Green and White, August 1956, pg. 23.
Bio/Historical Note: During the early years of the Cold War Canadian universities provided military training programs sponsored by the three armed services. The Royal Canadian Air Force version was known as the University Reserve Training Plan (URTP), and its purpose was to stimulate interest in the Air Force and to ensure a flow of trained university students as commissioned officers for the Regular service or the Reserves. To deliver the program, provision was made in 1948 for the establishment of RCAF (Auxiliary) University Flights at all the major schools across the country. In the 1950s, the recruitment of women was open to roles in medicine, communication, logistics, and administration.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - At Ease
Elevated view of COTC officers in uniforms and hats standing at ease during break.
Image of Col. Ronny Morton, Area Commander of Saskatchewan.
Bio/Historical Note: Ronald Edward Alfred Morton was born in Toronto in 1900. Morton went overseas in 1942 as commander of the Fort Garry Horse, a Winnipeg armoured regiment. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for bravery on 23 December 1944. Morton was stationed in Japan as head of Canada’s Far East Military Mission until 1947, when he was transferred to Regina as area commander for Saskatchewan. Morton died in Toronto in 1976.
Image of John Payson Oliver, lecturer in Civil Engineering in 1915-1916, and Captain and second in command of "B" Company, 196th Western Universities Battalion.
Major General R.W. Browne - Portrait
Head and shoulders image of Major General R.W. Browne in uniform and hat.
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and Brigadier-General Arthur E. Potts
Image of Brigadier-General Arthur E. Potts, professor of Dairy Science, walking on lawn with Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, taken in England. Bare trees in background.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Inspection
Inspection of COTC cadets at Dundurn Camp with J.S. Thomson, University President, (in suit) at centre. Camp buildings with flags in background.