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A group of soldiers in uniform, marching down Main Street in Biggar, Saskatchewan

Portrait of Sergeant Hugh Buchanan in military uniform

A large group of men (army recruits), lined up in rows in front of the Auditorium Hotel in Nanton, Alberta.

Seven men in military hats and aprons, standing in front of a tent and behind a long table while holding various cooking tools. Possible location: Camp Sewell (Hughes) in Manitoba.

Officers of the 120th C.A.(B.)T.C. (Canadian Army (Basic) Training Centre) which operated out of the Regina Exhibition Grounds during World War II

Group photograph of the Intercommunication Platoon – Regina Rifle Regiment at Camp Dundurn, located south of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in the summer of 1940.

Names supplied on back of photograph: Top Row (left to right): D. Snell; J. Drummond; D. Mills; R. Drinnan; C.Hardy; A. Munro; F. Ferguson(?); C.Corrigal. Middle Row (left to right): Z. Wozny; I. Poval; J. Nichols; Fuzz MacDowel; H. Miller; Livesley; Billy Taylor; Rooney. Bottom Row (left to right): Swede Johnson; ?; D. Cotton; Al Kennedy; Lt. Reid; Sgt. Cathcart; J.J. Charleston; Long John Gillette; Cotton.

Major-General William W. Foster and Major Wilf Rae in uniforms and hats standing at ease in Rutherford Rink.

Bio/Historical Note: William Wasbrough (Billy) Foster (1875-1954) was born in Bristol, England in 1876 and immigrated to Canada in 1894. In a 1913 by-election, Foster was elected Conservative member for The Islands in the British Columbia legislature. In November 1914, he joined the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles. After distinguishing himself at the Somme and Vimy Ridge, he was promoted to command the 52nd Battalion in August 1917. Aside from a temporary post to command the 9th Infantry Brigade in September 1918, Foster remained with the 52nd until the end of the war. He received two DSO Bars, was twice wounded and was five times mentioned in dispatches. Foster was appointed Chief Constable of the Vancouver Police Department on 3 January 1935. Foster remained active in veteran affairs during peacetime and was the president of the Royal Canadian Legion from 1938 to 1940. His career as chief constable was cut short when he was called off to war in 1939 and was promoted to major general. Foster died in 1954 in Vancouver.

Portrait of William Yeates Hunter in uniform with hat and a riding crop.

Bio/Historical Note: Major (Manitoba Regiment) William Yeates Hunter (b.1868) of Saskatoon was KIA 19180928 and is buried at Reninghelst New military cemetery southwest of Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. He was the son of Dr. William Frith Hunter and came from Margate, Kent, England, to homestead on NW21-49-4-W3, west of Shellbrook. Hunter served more than 13 years in the British Army and was with the 8th Kings (Liverpool) Regiment in the South African War. Hunter completed a BA at the University of Saskatchewan in 1915 and was a professor of English when he enlisted at Winnipeg, Manitoba, early the next year, leaving a wife Ethel Helen later of Montréal, Québec. Hunter was serving as an area commandant of part of liberated Belgium when he was killed (most likely by enemy bombs).

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Group photograph of the 1st Saskatchewan Mounted Rifles in1923

Tom Bateson standing in a field next to a cannon

A man in military uniform, leaning against a vehicle. There is a building in the background