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A personal diary I had for the longest time - see the 102nd Bn Website "The Diary of Pte HR Butt" at http://www.102ndbattalioncef.ca/ Enjoy!

One of the previous posters noted the primary role is indiv augmentation to a full time force that gets deployed intermittently (to typically take part) in a coalition setting. That's the Reg Force reality - they can't plan where they go and its all based on projecting outwards from whatever...

I had Dr Roy in 3rd and 4th year at UVic Fantastic guy One remark I remember - "all these war movies - we weren't Nazi Hating goons - we just had a job to do and everyone wanted to get back home"

Loved all his work.

Christie Blatchford, Reserves Languishing by not being upgraded, Korea Mobilisation ........ (let me see) Here's my fly on the wall views Actually - we have 2 militia's the Permanent Active Militia (Regs) and the Non Permanent Active Militia (Res). These are their 1939 terms. From 1952 to...

Today is Nov 11, received an email from a lady searching for location of the demise of her relative on 21 Sep 1916 She wrote Thomas Geoffrey Martin was a member of the 54th Battalion and I am trying to research where the Battalion was on Sept. 21st, 1916, the day he went missing. He had...

A little project I worked on. For your Nov 11 up in Mattawa Petawawa area http://www.102ndbattalioncef.ca/102ndbattalioncef.ca/warpages/David%20Antoine/david_antoine.html We remember.

So sad to see him go. What a great guy he was.  :salute:

The BBC provided a nice little story to the re-dedication today http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-19664032 Enjoy!

A little story for those of you interested in the Canadian Army in WW1 http://www.102ndbattalioncef.ca/102ndbattalioncef.ca/warpages/Cpl%20AG%20HEAVEN/CPL_AG_HEAVEN.html We remember

Well done to all!  ;)

A guide to source documents for you http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/005/f2/005-1142.29.030-e.pdf

Hate to burst your bubbles - Inflation and project delay for buildings and equipment will suck up all the savings Fail!  :bowing:

A lady wrote in about her WW1 Royal Engineer Major father who commanded the 1st Canadian Tunneling Company near Ypres Belgium from 29 May 1916 to 18 Sep 1917 It turned out he was a Canadian Mining Engineer from Nova Scotia who enlisted in Sep 1914 with Canadian Engineers and went over seas. In...

Ref Dual US / Canadian Citizenship I have it - no big deal - they ask about it on a Security Clearance renewal

Great Story for you!  http://www.102ndbattalioncef.ca/102ndbattalioncef.ca/warpages/GEORGE%20%20MALCOLM%20IRELAND%20102ND%20-%20Web%20page.htm

The brainy fliers we have can read and spread the news as required My point was - Disinformed and unformed commentary by "Not for Profit" agencies (as in someone is funding them) needs to be challenged Thanks for your pointers to the cast archive though!

With Airforce pundits like this we won't be changing political mindsets any time soon http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Buying+fighter+makes+sense+Canada/6320351/story.html I made a few comments on the attachment

http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/gmap/hydesim.html?dll=38.88962,-77.01022&mll=38.88755,-77.02343&yd=10&zm=13&op=156 Check it out for yourself Math wizards can wind the event down to a truck based 2000 pound IED - try it on any location you want

http://natpo.st/Amxg02 Wonder what the odds of a meltdown are before this is all done? Rather than see it as a future Taliban takeover, this is rolling back the clock to the 1893 Durand Line agreement to where the Taliban last left off as a viable independant force See link -...