ontariopiper
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Hi everyone,
Thought I'd share my recent project. I have had these Company and Division portrait pics for about 30 years, having been gifted then by my grandmother after I joined the Reserves when I was at university. They had been stored in their original mailing tubes since then, and before I had them, in a box at my grandmothers, also still in the tubes.
They are in excellent condition, and as part of my recent/ongoing man cave/pipe room renovation, I thought it was high time they saw the light of day. So I paid my pound of flesh for professional framing, including UV treated glass so the photographs won't fade away in the sun. We dithered over the frame choices, but I'm really pleased with the way they came out. They would fit right in on the wall of any Regimental Mess.
Grandad was a Despatch Rider in the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals and rode a Norton motorbike while delivering hard copies of documents. He spent most of his war in England but was shipped across the Channel in 1944/45 and participated in the liberation of Holland.
I never knew him, but I became a Signals Officer (which was called a Communications and Electronics Engineering Officer by then) when I served as a Reservist in Kingston, Ontario, mainly in honour of his past service to the Corps. We trained and worked on the same base, though 50 years apart. Our jobs were very different but my CELE cap badge was easily recognizable as the direct descendant of his RCCS badge.
The longer bottom picture of his Company was taken on CFB Kingston, then called (unflatteringly) the Barriefield Concentration Camp in 1940. The top picture is the entire 2nd Division, RCCS, taken in England in 1941. My grandmother marked him out in pen on the photographs so he's still easy to pick out of the crowd.
Thought I'd share my recent project. I have had these Company and Division portrait pics for about 30 years, having been gifted then by my grandmother after I joined the Reserves when I was at university. They had been stored in their original mailing tubes since then, and before I had them, in a box at my grandmothers, also still in the tubes.
They are in excellent condition, and as part of my recent/ongoing man cave/pipe room renovation, I thought it was high time they saw the light of day. So I paid my pound of flesh for professional framing, including UV treated glass so the photographs won't fade away in the sun. We dithered over the frame choices, but I'm really pleased with the way they came out. They would fit right in on the wall of any Regimental Mess.
Grandad was a Despatch Rider in the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals and rode a Norton motorbike while delivering hard copies of documents. He spent most of his war in England but was shipped across the Channel in 1944/45 and participated in the liberation of Holland.
I never knew him, but I became a Signals Officer (which was called a Communications and Electronics Engineering Officer by then) when I served as a Reservist in Kingston, Ontario, mainly in honour of his past service to the Corps. We trained and worked on the same base, though 50 years apart. Our jobs were very different but my CELE cap badge was easily recognizable as the direct descendant of his RCCS badge.
The longer bottom picture of his Company was taken on CFB Kingston, then called (unflatteringly) the Barriefield Concentration Camp in 1940. The top picture is the entire 2nd Division, RCCS, taken in England in 1941. My grandmother marked him out in pen on the photographs so he's still easy to pick out of the crowd.
