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I would just like to thank you again for all your help.  Just a quick update, My great Uncle Captain Oliver Alexander Mowat was killed in Northern Russia in 1919.  He was Capt of 68 battery C.F.A.  He was awarded the Military Cross as I have said previously. Since then I have been able to...

LOL....... showed that picture to a friend on the weekend who is TERRIFIED of spiders........ even on the screen he took 5 paces back and his eyes were 3/4 out of his sockets lol .....his coment was if he were there, there would be a h*** of alot of rounds aimed at those things. was...

Interesting article there on hearing loss..... does that mean that us as gunners will get regular hearing tests due to our trade? or should hearing tests be conducted after each live fire ex be it arty, inf, eng, or whatever? just a weekend on the range can have perm damage if you were dumb...

Ok..... sticking my neck out here a bit as i don't have all the info like other ppl in my unit would but here it goes..... Out here in BC (lower mainland primarily) it is a requirement to graduate high school that you have completed 40 hours of OJT at some sort of work. Now, I'm not to sure who...

thanks so much, but I found all the info for Oliver after I posted this message  I also found a write up from the Maple Leaf outlining exactlly how he died and the battle that ensued before his death.  Morden I didn't know about.  And he is proving to be a lot more difficult to research. ...

ok seeing as how I have answered some people, and read through all these history posts I have a few questions of my own. 1. My great Uncle Lieut. Oliver Alexander Mowat or (Mowatt) of the 10th Battery, 3rd Brigade, D.F.A, RCA was wounded in Spaskee Russian at the end of WW1.  He later died and...

hello there I am Arty_4's Domestic 9er.  Anyways I am also doing reasearch on my family's war history and have found these websites very helpful.  I hope that I am not sticking my nose where it doesn't belong.  I am sorry If i am.  But I was using this site to see if there was anything here...