Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Band - Group Photo
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- [194-?]
Captain Ross Brown, bandmaster, with COTC band, posing with their instruments at Saskatoon Armouries.
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Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Band - Group Photo
Captain Ross Brown, bandmaster, with COTC band, posing with their instruments at Saskatoon Armouries.
Squadron marching in street of unidentified German town. Buildings of European design, people and Volkswagen in background.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
Four COTC cadets receive communications training with radio transmitters. Signs and posters on wall in background, one poster on artificial respiration, another one sign reads "Danger. The High Voltage used in these transmitters can cause instant Death. Read Safety Rules."
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
COTC cadets during weapons training; an officer stands at the side watching. Outdoor scene at Dundurn Camp; buildings and rifles in background.
Dinners and Dining - Tri-Service Ball
Guests in evening attire seated at dinner table during the Tri-Services Ball.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Cadets
Eight COTC cadets pose indoors with a Triumph motorcycle; other motorcycles visible in background.
Four COTC officers in Germany looking at mill stone; mill wheel and building in background; [H. Watson]
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Award Presentation
Presentation of award to unidentifed COTC cadet. Names of men written on back of photograph: Brig. Gen. J.A.W. Bennel, Commander M.D.P. Allely, and D. McPherson.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Homecoming Parade
COTC cadets marching as they pull a gun carriage on a downtown Saskatoon street. Store fronts and signs in background.
Four COTC officers walking in Germany; steeples of church and trees in background. [H. Watson].
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. 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."
196th Western Universities Battalion - Inspection
Soldiers stand in formation in foreground at Camp Hughes, Manitoba. Tents, buildings, "Empire Theatre,""Twin Theatre," and automobiles in background.
196th Western Universities Battalion - No. 11 Field Ambulance - Group Photo
Grouping of members of 11th Canadian Field Ambulance (CFA) standing and sitting outdoors in front and on steps of monumental building.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
COTC cadets in civilian attire holding rifles in front of 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.