Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Cadets
- A-1265
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- [after 1952]
Major John S.M. Allely and six COTC cadets; indoor scene with poster and picture of Queen Elizabeth II in background.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Cadets
Major John S.M. Allely and six COTC cadets; indoor scene with poster and picture of Queen Elizabeth II in background.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Award Presentation
Presentation by Brig. Watsford of award to unidentified COTC cadet. Unidentified [officer] looks on.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Group Photo
Four rows of COTC cadets and officers standing and sitting indoors with flags; photographs 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.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Group Photo
Four rows of COTC cadets and officers standing and sitting in a [gymnasium]. Three women among the group; several cadets mugging for the camera.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Group Photo
Four rows of COTC cadets and officers standing and sitting. Names included are Marcel de la Gorgendiere, Bruce McCorkell, Norman Cram, John Joyce, Edmunds, McCo[y], Murray Scharf, Ken Turner, Al Pettigrew and John Bachynsky. Indoor scene with flags, trophies and photographs of military personnel and Prince Philip on background wall.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Group Photo
Four rows of COTC cadets and officers standing and sitting indoors. Names included are Marcel de la Gorgendiere, John Merriman, Hugh Edmunds, John Wesley Joyce, J.W.T. Spinks, Jack Summers, Norman Cram, [Bill?] McCoy, Dale Brownin and Dick Kucey.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Inspection
COTC officers and cadets in uniform standing in formation; band visible at left. At Saskatoon Armouries with flags and emblems on background walls.
196th Western Universities Battalion - Group Photo
Four rows of soldiers of the 196th Battalion standing and sitting; campus buildings in background. A child stands in front dressed in a military uniform.
196th Western Universities Battalion - Sask "B" Company - Group Photo
Four rows of officers in uniform and men in civilian dress; members of the first platoon of the 196th Western Universities Battalion that was raised in Saskatchewan.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Inspection
Elevated view of COTC officers, cadets and brass band standing at attention for inspection at Saskatoon Armouries.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
Elevated view of COTC officers and non-commissioned officers training with field artillery at Saskatoon Armouries.
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 - Social
COTC officers and professors standing together at a COTC event, front row (l to r): John S.M. Allely (Economics), Harry Edmunds (Geology), J.H. Thompson (Accounting). Back row: John V. Bateman (Philosophy), Ansten Anstensen (Classics), Herman H. Ferns (Mathematics), J.B. (Jim) Mawdsley (Geology), and Dr. Wes MacAulay (Pharmacy). Several in uniform and others in tuxedos; flags and photographs 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.