Head and shoulders image of Major-General Arthur E. Potts, professor of Dairy Science, College of Agriculture, 1919-1948.

Bio/Historical Note: Arthur Edward Potts was born 24 October 1890 in Northumberland, England. Potts was educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh, Scotland, and subsequently studied at the University of Edinburgh (BSc) and Cornell University (MA in agriculture). He worked as an instructor at Ames College in Iowa. He came to Canada in 1914 to enlist as a private soldier in the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry in World War I. He was wounded twice while overseas. After the war Potts was appointed professor of Dairy Science at the University of Saskatchewan. He held this position until 1939 when he went overseas again as Lieutenant Colonel, commanding the Saskatoon Light Infantry. He became Brigadier-General in 1940 to command the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade. In 1942 Potts was promoted to Major General, commanding the 6th Canadian Infantry Division. After the war Potts joined the Department of Veterans Affairs in Kingston, Ontario, to become the Department's district administrator. Potts died in September 1983 in Kingston at age 92.

Guests in evening attire seated at dinner table during the Tri-Services Ball.

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

Three people on bikes and one man walking toward "the community apartments - veterans' housing in former Air Force buildings".

Bio/Historical Note: The Community Apartments, formerly H-Hut barracks located at the Saskatoon airport for Royal Canadian Air Force trainees during World War II, became the off-campus home of many University of Saskatchewan veterans. The huts came from the former No. 7 Initial Training School (ITS) and moved to 1130 Avenue A North (Avenue A and 33rd Street West). The apartments were controlled by the Saskatchewan Reconstruction Housing Corporation, closing ca. 1965.

Bio/Historical Note: Interesting tidbit:"Three University of Saskatchewan veterans and their families have received eviction notices from the Community Apartments for failing to apologize to the kitchen staff with whom they had lodged complaints."
From: The Daily Ubyssey, 21 November 1947.

Bio/Historical Note: The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), or Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) often referred to as simply "The Plan", was a massive, joint military aircrew training program created by the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand during the Second World War. The BCATP remains as one of the single largest aviation training programs in history and was responsible for training nearly half the pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, air gunners, wireless operators and flight engineers who served with the Royal Air Force (RAF), Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm (FAA), Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) during the war.

Indoor posed photo of participants of the Pharmacy Short Course given by Extension Division, including some uniformed members of the Armed Services.

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 1976 in Toronto.

Head and shoulders image of Charles Henry Greenway, Department of Engineering, and officer in the COTC, in uniform.

Bio/Historical Note: Charles Henry Greenway joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1935 after graduating from the University of Saskatchewan with a BSc in Mechanical Engineering. Before the war he was employed on flying instructional duties at Trenton and Camp Borden (Ontario), and in 1940 went overseas with 112 (Army Co-operation) Squadron. Repatriated for training duties under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, Group Captain Greenway was Chief Instructor at MacLeod, Alberta and Yorkton, Saskatchewan, and served on the West Coast for two years. In 1944 he became Commanding Officer at No. 4 Flying Training School, Saskatoon, and later was appointed Senior Air Staff Officer at No. 2 Air Command Headquarters in Winnipeg. In September 1946, he was appointed Commanding Officer at the RCAF station at Camp Borden, a position he held until his appointment to Ottawa as Director of Ground Training for the RCAF. Greenway was awarded with the Order of the British Empire.

Image of the COTC University Medal.

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.

Elevated view of two COTC cadets working with a radio transmitter; an [officer] kneeling at right. At Saskatoon Armouries.

A corporal in the COTC climbing over [wall] during obstacle course run in [Rutherford Rink].

COTC cadets standing at attention in two rows while wearing gas masks. Flags and emblems on wall in background at Saskatoon Armouries.

Elevated view of nine COTC officers and cadets standing at attention with two men laying on stretchers during first aid training at Saskatoon Armouries.

COTC officers and cadets stand at attention while the operation of an artillery piece is being demonstrated at Saskatoon Armouries.

Three members of the COTC Pistol Club practicing (and not looking comfortable) with handguns during weapons training.

Elevated view of COTC cadets receiving small arms instruction from a corporal. Officers in background are Colonel George A.H. Trudeau and Dr. Herman H. Ferns, Department of Mathematics; in Rutherford Rink.