Vernon Photo Gallery

Vernon Photo Gallery 1968

(Cam Leblond, Vernon Daily News)

(Cam Leblond, Vernon Daily News)

Drumhead Service (Cam Leblond)

15 platoon Echo Company at Mabel Lake Adventure training. (Terry Leith)

Marching west on Ortona Street towards Dieppe Square, early morning. (Terry Leith)

1st Chelsea Pensioner's dinner (Cam Leblond)

Visiting hockey players Eddie Shack and Johnny MacKenzie of the Boston Bruins signing the guest book in the officers mess, Capt Bill Gabriel (far right) (Cam Leblond)

(Cam Leblond, Vernon Daily News)

(Cam Leblond, Vernon Daily News)

The cadet whose barrack box is open and the quartermaster is placing an item into, is a picture of me, when I was 16 years old. You will notice that I am wearing a forge cap with "Checkerboard" dicing and that I am wear a Cadet Lieutenants' rank. I was a member of The Winnipeg Grenadiers Cadet Corps at that time. I was taking the Cadet Leader Instructors Course that summer. As you may know, this course was considered the senior course in the camp. Our normal formation on the Saturday Morning parades, was as two - 50 man guards, complete with FNs and fixed bayonets. If you ever see pictures of the parades from that time, our position was across the front of the entire parade. We wore the White Pith Helmets completed with a "Solid Brass Spike", which we had to polish constantly. During our summer at the camp, we also did a lot of touring around the Okanagan Valley, participating in parades which included the Kelowna Regatta and the Penticton Peach Festival, to name a couple of them. The two Camp Bands also participated in these parades.

The other cadet behind me, wearing the forge cap with the Artillery Cap badge was also from Manitoba, but not from Winnipeg. Unfortunately, I do not remember his name.

Thanks...

Stan Lopata
Winnipeg, MB (2012)

(Cam Leblond, Vernon Daily News)