Sergeant Morrow’s Camp Sewell Scrapbook The RCA Museum has a rare scrapbook containing photographs, and insightful commentary from Camp Sewell dated 1911 to 1914. The camp, located immediately north of CFB Shilo and approximately ten kilometres west of Carberry, Manitoba, operated from 1910 to 1934. The camp’s name changed to Camp Hughes after Major-General Sir […]
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The Royal Canadian Artillery 50th Anniversary Medallion – 1921 The Royal Canadian Artillery (RCA) observed the 50th anniversary of the formation of A and B Battery in 1921. At the time, the RCA was the artillery component of the Permanent Active Militia also called the Permanent Force and comprised the RCA staff, Royal School of
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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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