Brigadier-General W. O. H. Dodds Donation The Royal Canadian Artillery Museum recently received a significant donation from Dale Murray. We are very grateful to receive the Brigadier-General W. O. H. Dodds medals, and we will place them on public display. Over the past few years, Dale Murray donated several other significant Canadian Gunnery medal sets, […]
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Stewart Family Donation In our archives, I found a letter from Major G. D. Mitchell to the Stewart family (Mary and LCol James Stewart) from Kingston, Ontario, dated 14 December 1981. LCol James Stewart was the son of Brigadier James C. Stewart (Sr). Along with the letter, there are 47 photos and postcards of RCA
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Normandy Landing Photo Above is an aerial reconnaissance photo of the Normandy coast near Juno Beach dated May 1944, just weeks before the D-Day Landing on 6 June 1944, with annotated remarks from the 74th Anti-Tank Battery, part of the 6th Anti-Tank Regiment, stating: “Approx 1 ½ mi. W of where we landed 8 Jul.
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Gray’s Missing Silver Flask In 2008, the RCA Museum received a donation from Nairne Gray out of Vancouver, B.C., consisting of his father’s military memorabilia. The collection contains artifacts that belonged to Captain W. E. Duggan Gray, who landed on Juno Beach on D-Day and fought with the 3rd Anti-Tank Regiment, part of the 3rd
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Sound Ranging and Vimy Ridge A reliable source told me a story or folktale that a Canadian soldier invented the idea of sound ranging while in a lavatory on the Western Front. The soldier noticed waves forming in a small pool of water after each successive thumping of the guns and wondered if sound waves
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