Photo Album of 35th Battery Treasures Who were the Canadian volunteers that served overseas during the First World War? By chance, I located in the museum archives an old album containing hundreds of First World War photographs belonging to Captain George A. Downey. The collection includes excellent photos of the 35th Battery with 4.5 Inch […]
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Leggett’s White Patrol Dress Uniform Staff at the RCA Museum have combed the archives in search of artifacts connected to Canadian peacekeeping for the current temporary exhibit. They found a white patrol dress uniform belonging to LCol H. F. (Bert) Leggett, worn when he served with the International Commission for Supervision and Control (ICSC) in
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Not to be Read! “It seems strange and useless that I should have to die for this,” Canadian Spitfire Pilot William Fortt said in a heartfelt letter to his parents 16 months before he died in a fiery plane crash in Essex, England, on 12 April 1942. Dale Murray donated the military medals of Pilot
