{"id":883,"date":"2015-09-19T01:35:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T01:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strathroycaradoclions.ca\/?page_id=883"},"modified":"2018-05-14T13:01:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T17:01:08","slug":"images-of-wwii-battalions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rememberourvets.ca\/index.php\/images-of-wwii-battalions\/","title":{"rendered":"Images of WWII Battalions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are photographs of the battalions’ emblems\/crests\/badges to which veterans on the Strathroy cenotaph were attached, to the best of our knowledge, at the time of their death or upon leaving the armed services.<\/span><\/p>\n

All pole ‘banners’ have the emblem on a black, powder-coated background<\/strong> to allow the colours of the graphics to be prominent.<\/span><\/p>\n

“A” Squadron, 1st Canadian Carrier Armoured Regiment (Kangaroo Corps)<\/a><\/strong><\/span>: Russell Gerry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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7th Field Company,\u00a0Royal Canadian Engineers<\/strong><\/span>: C.W. Barker<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Potugal<\/a><\/p>\n

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8th Army RCR (Royal Canadian Regiment)<\/strong><\/span>: Edmund Holliday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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14th\u00a0Squadron,\u00a0RCAF<\/strong><\/span>: Donald Thomson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Langs\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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23rd Operational Training Unit, RCAF<\/strong><\/span>: Jack McDonald<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"RICCO\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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88th Hong Kong Squadron, RCAF<\/strong><\/span>: Charles F. Adair<\/a> (brother to William, Robert\u00a0& Kenneth)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Cuddy\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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263rd Squadron,\u00a0RCAF<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: Allan Campbell<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"NAPA<\/a><\/p>\n

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401st Ram Squadron, RCAF<\/strong><\/span>: W. K. Ferguson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"dale<\/a><\/p>\n

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427th Squadron, RCAF<\/strong><\/span>: Donald Leitch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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1656th\u00a0Heavy Conversion Unit,\u00a0RCAF<\/strong><\/span>: Lawrence Pike<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Zwart\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Essex Scottish Regiment<\/strong><\/span>: Albert Arthur<\/a>, Jack Lovell<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Hamstra<\/a><\/p>\n

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Kent Regiment<\/strong><\/span>: Richard Maxwell Hall<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Clock<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n\"Slegers\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Perth Regiment<\/strong><\/span>: Robert Adair<\/a>, Kenneth Adair<\/a> (2 of 4 brothers)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Royal Canadian Engineers<\/strong><\/span>: Charles Barker<\/a>, Arden Payne<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Royal Canadian Navy (HMCS Valleyfield)<\/strong><\/span>: Leroy Swales<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Town<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here are photographs of the battalions’ emblems\/crests\/badges to which veterans on the Strathroy cenotaph were attached, to the best of our knowledge, at the time of their death or upon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-noright.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-883","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rememberourvets.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rememberourvets.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rememberourvets.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rememberourvets.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rememberourvets.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/rememberourvets.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5301,"href":"https:\/\/rememberourvets.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/883\/revisions\/5301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rememberourvets.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}