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Saturday, 29 July 2006 (29 photos)
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Pennant winner for week 3 - Alpha Coy
Cdt Krister Wikstrom 3005 Service Battalion RC(Army)CC Victoria BC, C/WO Nicholas Lemaire 1746 Service Battalion RC(Army)CC Creston BC, C/Sgt Brittiny St.Jules 2302 Regina Rifle Regiment RC(Army)CC Weyburn SK and Capt Jaime Biggar raising the flag (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
Saturday morning inspection on Sicily Square, Officer Commanding Maj Amadeo Vecchio inspects Charlie Coy (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
(VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
A drill lecture on Dieppe Square... (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
...and a rifle handling lecture in the lecture tents, a typical Saturday morning before free time in the afternoon (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
Guard Coy have a special duty today. To lay flags and poppies and the headstones of some 280 Canadian soldiers sailors and airmen at Pleasant Valley Cemetary, a unique initiative for the training centre. (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
The Padre, Capt (ret'd) Jack Greenhalgh gives a prayer to honour those buried here (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
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(VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
(VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
(VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
(VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
Lt Bryane Materi lays a flag and poppy at the grave of Daniel Ricketts a Private with the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles from the First World War who passed away 11 Aug 1956 (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
(VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
(VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
Cdt Justin Robertson 2308 Canadian Scottish Regiment RC(Army)CC Port Alberni BC salutes the grave of a member of the Canadian Scottish Regiment, WO2 Ronald Thomas Nish who passed away 31 May 1968 (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
(VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
Cdt Ryan Pahkala 2295 Royal Winnipeg Rifles RC(Army)CC Winnipeg Mb stands at the foot of the grave of a member of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
Rfn William Scherle Royal Winnipeg Rifles (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
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Cdt Anna Bachmeir pauses at a grave (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
Padre Jack Greenhalgh talks to Cdt Todd Makey 2051 19th Alberta Dragoons RC(Army)CC Edmonton AB and Cdt Nicole McWilliams 2467 Service Battalion RC(Army)CC Westlock AB about Col David Kinloch, the former CO of the BCDs and Vernon ACSTC in the early 1950s (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
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(VACSTC, W. Emde)
The final prayer (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
(VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
(VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
Never to be forgotten (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
A Coy - in Camp
B Coy - in Camp
C Coy - in Camp
D Coy - in Camp
E Coy - in Camp
F Coy - in Camp
G Coy - in Camp
Pioneer platoon - in camp
Today's weather: Max Temp. 29c Min Temp. 13c mostly sunny & warm
This day in Canadian Military History...
29 July 1916
Twenty members of the 29th Battalion, recruits from Vancouver, raid the German trenches opposite St. Eloi, looking for evidence of tunneling shafts and gas cylinders. The cylinders are found and 50 Germans are either killed or wounded, for only light Canadian casualties.
29 July 1982
A Canadian CF-104 Starfighter collides in mid-air with a civilian aircraft near Baden, Germany. The pilot of the fighter manages to eject from his jet successfully, but three civilians are killed in the mishap.