Commandant Series
IX Commandant RRMC: 1963 – 1965 / XXVI Commandant RMC: 1967 – 1970 (Researched by E3161 Victoria Edwards) 2576 Commodore William “Willy” Prine Hayes (RMC ’37) was the 26th Commandant of RMC and the 9th Commandant of RRMC. He was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in December 1919. He was an Officer Cadet at Royal…
Flashback to…
Flashback to 1999… Mr. David Pratt: I have another quick question on the issue of demilitarization. One of the things we’ve heard over the last couple of years has been the problem with what has been described as “careerism” within the Canadian Forces. Do you see those two issues linked? Col Sean Henry: Well, it’s…
Commandant Series
V Commandant RMC: 1901 – 1905 (Researched by E3161 Victoria Edwards) Major General Raymond Northland Revell Reade C.B., C.M.G. was the 5th Commandant of the Royal Military College of Canada from 1901-5. Born in 1861, he was the grandson of Thomas Knox, the second Earl of Ranfurly. The Earl of Ranfurly, of Dungannon in the…
Commandant Series – John Moreau Grant
I Commandant RRMC: 1942 – 1946 (Researched by E3161 Victoria Edwards) RNCC5 Captain (N) John Moreau Grant C.B.E. was born in 1895 in Halifax, N.S. He spent two years at school in Heidelberg, Germany. He returned to Halifax in 1909. In Jan. 1911 he joined the Royal Naval College of Canada in Halifax Nova Scotia…
Commandant Series
LB Pearson and D.A.R. Bradshaw XXI Commandant of RMC (Researched by 3161 Victoria Edwards) 2140 Air Vice Marshall (AVM) Douglas (Doug) A.R. Bradshaw (RMC 1934), DFC, CD, studied at the Royal Military College in Kingston from 1930-1934. Wing Commander D.A.R. Bradshaw served as Commanding Officer of the 420 (Snowy Owl) Squadron from March 1942-April 1943.…
From Gentleman Cadet To No Known Grave
FROM GENTLEMAN CADET TO NO KNOWN GRAVE The Life and Death of Lieutenant (Observer/Gunner) Franklin Sharp Rankin (1894-1916) Even though all sides quickly acknowledged the value of air power during the First World War, finding qualified pilots and aircrew to maintain fledgling air forces proved to be a tremendous challenge. For the British, most of…
Commandant Series – Stuart, Cunningham & Avant
XV Commandant of RMC 816 Lieutenant General Kenneth Stuart, DSO, MC, ADC was born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec on September 9, 1891. He studied at Royal Military College of Canada from 1908 until he graduated in 1911. He served with the Royal Canadian Engineers overseas 1915-18. He returned to RMC as an general services officer 1…
We Shall Remember
1016 Captain William Otway Boger (RMC ’13) DFC, from Winnipeg, Manitoba was the son of Henry Western Otway Boger and Sarah Elizabeth Boger. He was a graduate of the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. In February 1916, he reported for duty to the Fort Osborne barracks in Winnipeg. Early in July 1916, the first…
Twelve stained glass windows in Kingston City Hall Memorial
The 12 Twelve stained glass windows in Kingston City Hall Memorial Hall were dedicated in 1921 “In Honour of Kingston’s Sailors,Soldiers, Airmen and Nursing Sisters who served overseas in the Great War – 1914-1918.” Most of the windows were donated to the City of Kingston in memory of someone who died in the war. The…
Canadian Military Heritage – Obstacles to Francophone Participation in the Military
Obstacles to Francophone Participation in the Military In 1952 Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean in Quebec opened for officer cadets from all three forces, and it would remain, until 1995, as a part of the movement for a greater Francophone military presence. It preached functional bilingualism for all officer cadets, Anglophone as well as Francophone,…
Airmen Over Arnhem
We expect to resume our Commandants series in the next e-Veritas edition ______________________________________________________ Canadian Military History in Perspective Airmen Over Arnhem October 10, 2008, by Hugh A. Halliday Official Royal Canadian Air Force histories of the Second World War have, of necessity, concentrated on policies directly affecting the national contribution and with particular reference to…