Sunday, 21 Aug 2005 (19 photos)
Sunday morning and the last few cadets are heading home, just nine cadets are on the ground as of 0800hrs, their bus leaves an hour later. Where just a few days ago there were nearly 1200 cadets and 500 staff, there is just now 60 staff, in few days there will be just headquarters staff finishing the work that will prepare the camp for next year.
Looking up to C lines and the MIR...
...and down the main road towards B3, just the sound of sparrows and the distant construction on Middleton Mountain...
... inside B21 west wing, all is quiet...
...as is the east wing...
...between the barracks, just crows...
... B20 east wing is empty...
...no one outside the mess hall...
...all the roads are strangely quiet and empty...
... the phone booths which just a few days ago were in constant use as cadets phoned home to mom and dad from Victoria to Quebec City sit empty...
...Sicily Square...
...in Charlie Company's office...
...and Echo too...
...the people are gone...
...the cadet canteen...
...map & compass row...
...the basic confidence course...
...Dieppe Square all empty...
...until next year.
Battalion dispersed - all cadets returning home
Today's weather: Max Temp. 34.0c Min Temp. 12.6c sunny & hot
This day in Canadian Military History...
21 August 1686
100 Canadian raiders make a dawn attack on the English trading post at Ft. Hayes (on James Bay). The garrison of 16 men, still in their nightshirts, surrenders.
21 August 1749
Edward Cornwallis lands at Chebucto and begins to build a settlement named for its sponsor, Lord Halifax.
21 August 1952
The Royal Canadian Regiment sends out a raiding party against the Chinese position on Hill 133 in Korea. As the men approach the objective, charges set by the defenders are detonated, killing one man and wounding twenty-two others.
