The Class of ’79 Remembers: Bats and Irish Pennants
With thanks to 12289 Richard Groves and the Class of ’79 I was pleased to have been chosen to serve as a recruit term Section Commander in Six Squadron, with Ritchie Smendziuk as Flight Leader and Steve McPherson and Marc Fraser as the other two Section Commanders. I had become acquainted with the other three…
The Class of ’79 Remembers: The Lasalle Squadron Flag Caper
With thanks to 12162 Dwight Davies and the Class of ’79 We all can easily recall that period of shock and awe when we transitioned from our freedom-loving high school existence to the much more disciplined life of a cadet, most notably during Recruit Camp. During that period, we were introduced to many of the…
Class of ’79 Remembers: N Flight – When Circles are Just Not Enough
With thanks to 12179 Bob Hills and the Class of ’79 Five Squadron, including N Flight, was housed in the bowels of Fort Champlain and shared a common Orderly Room (OR) with 6 and 7 Sqns, so there was the occasional overlap between the manly-men in Purple and the mouth-breathers in Yellow or Grey. The…
The Class of ’79 Remembers: Mandarins at Royal Roads
With thanks to 12317 Scott Mills and the Class of ’79 (Author’s note. Over my life I have made many aborted attempts at keeping a diary or journal. Unfortunately my adult onset ADHD means I lose the conviction to keep it up after a week or so. This story was written after I retired from…
The Class of ’79 Remembers: Ex Papillon – Copey Leads with The Tao of Pooh
Editor’s Note: The following recollection was prompted by another Class of 1979 anecdote, The Lucky Tango Trio from Kilo Flight, which can be found here. With thanks to 12149 Pete Avis and the Class of ’79 Ahhhh! The Summer of ‘76 in sandy Borden, Ontario. Memories of brutal heat, poison ivy, long marches, brutal-er QR&Os…
The Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston 1921 – 1925: Trials & Tribulations of First Year
Note: We do our best to identify all the photos. However, a number of photos which appear (and will appear) with this series do not necessarily mean the photos were taken during the ‘exact’ time-frame of 1921-25. We believe the photo above is a group of Ex Cadets who were visiting the college for a…
The Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston 1921 – 1925: Erecting the Memorial Arch
The Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston 1921 –1925: Erecting the Memorial Arch Pt 7 Military engineering consisted mostly of building fixed defences of the more sophisticated World War I model and we spent what seemed like endless hours digging trenches and putting up and dismantling barbed wire entanglements on Barriefield Common. In the later…
The Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston 1921 –1925: The military side of things
Pt 6 The Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston 1921 –1925: The military side of things. On the military side, a great deal of the organization and day-to-day administration and interior economy of a unit was learned by being a living part of it. The cadets were organized in a battalion of two companies each…
INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY SERIES – Pt.3 – 1982 – 2015
xxxxxxxxx *** West Point – RMC Hockey 1982 – 2015 Pt 3 By: WJO 1981-82 would turn out to be the last season that the hockey Redmen would be playing an exhibition schedule; which they had been doing the previous couple of years. Dr Wayne Kirk a well known and highly respected professor in the…
The Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston 1921 –1925: Rating the Profs
Pt 5 The Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston 1921 –1925: Rating the Profs I was not so naïve as to believe that those who would descend to stealing and trading in examination papers would necessarily obey an order from me to stop doing so. We detailed all night guards on each flat to ensure…
1949: Young RMC Hockey Team Downed 5-4 by West Point
Caption: Two RMC cadets believed to be (L) 2853 RP Bourne a forward and 2889 WM MacIntosh, who was the Cadet Team Manager both view the scoreboard prior to their departure to West Point, NY during March 1949. xxx Caption: Photo (L) RMC team; (C) Opening faceoff won by Bud White over an unidentified…
1949 – 1981: 42 years of RMC / West Point Hockey – Pretty Well One-Sided
1949 – 1981: 42 years of RMC / West Point Hockey – Pretty Well One-Sided (Part 2) By: WJO Following the ‘49 game at West Point, NY, the series returned the next year to Kingston for the first time since 1939. It would take until the 1952 game for RMC to fill a roster including…