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Victory Circle - Fort San

Captioned: Victory Circle.
Image displays a large group of men in uniform standing with 6 women on the front steps of the Fort San administration building.

Radio Technicians - Group Photo

Seven rows of soldiers and faculty of the Radio Technicians, Course #1, University of Saskatchewan Detachment, Royal Canadian Air Force. Image taken at Griffiths Stadium. Front row has A. Michalenko (Electrical Engineering), E. Thackery (Physics Department, Regina College), C.A. Mackay (Physics), Balfour W. Currie (Physics). Walton, the Officer-in-charge is also identified.

Major General Arthur E. Potts - Portrait

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.

Gerald Carline Collection

  • MJ-167
  • Collection
  • 1988

This collection contains material relating to the Lieutenant Colonel D.V. Currie, V.C Armoury dedication ceremony on June 12, 1988 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Lieutenant Colonel G. F. Carline, C.D. was the master of ceremonies. The fonds contains the program for the event as well as a typescript of his speech, with handwritten additions and corrections.

Carline, Gerald

Col. Ronny Morton - Portrait

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.

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