Canadian Officers' Training Corps - At Ease
- A-1185
- Item
- 1937
Elevated view of COTC officers in uniforms and hats standing at ease during break.
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Canadian Officers' Training Corps - At Ease
Elevated view of COTC officers in uniforms and hats standing at ease during break.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - At Attention
COTC cadets with rifles at attention awaiting inspection.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Addresses
COTC officers and cadets looking and listening to podium speakers. Interior view of first Engineering Building with tail end of German bi-plane visible from the rafters.
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 Forces Base, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Part of MJ General Photograph Collection
Aerial view of the buildings and roads at Canadian Forces Base, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Squadron marching in street of unidentified German town. Buildings of European design, people and Volkswagen in background.
Four COTC officers in Germany looking at mill stone; mill wheel and building in background; [H. Watson]
Four COTC officers walking in Germany; steeples of church and trees in background. [H. Watson].
Air Force exhibit featuring a jet engine.
196th Western Universities Battalion at Camp Hughes
Soldiers at left; rows of tents at right at Camp Hughes, Manitoba. Roads and railroad at front running horizontally; two people and one horse-drawn carriage on roads. Tent between railroad and roads in foreground.
196th Western Universities Battalion - Sask "B" Company - Group Photo
Western Universities Battalion on parade and standing in line formation in an open field. The book is braced and held by hand. Caption beneath the photograph reads "B (Sask.) Co. 196th Western Universities Battalion."
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.
196th Western Universities Battalion - Review
Soldiers in line formation in an open field at Camp Hughes, Manitoba, marching past Brigadier General J. Hughes and other officers as they salute. "B" Company, made up of University of Saskatchewan volunteers, would form the second line under the command of Major J.P. Oliver (Engineering), C.J. Mackenzie (Engineering) being a platoon commander.
196th Western Universities Battalion - No. 7 Platoon - Group Photo
Five rows of soldiers of No. 7 Platoon in uniform and holding rifles; at Camp Hughes, Manitoba.
196th Western Universities Battalion - No. 5 Platoon - Group Photo
Five rows of soldiers of No. 5 Platoon in uniform and holding rifles; at Camp Hughes, Manitoba.
196th Western Universities Battalion - No. 5 Platoon - Group Photo
Four rows of soldiers in uniform at the front entrance of the College Building. Sign at their feet reads: "Platoon 5, 196th Batt. W.U. Saskatchewan."