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“Albert George Hendrie Is Placed on Trial For Murder of Peter Davis,” Kingston Whig-Standard. February 22, 1933. Page 3.  ---- Long Time Taken in Choosing the Jury — Every Man on Jury Panel Was Called — Sir Alfred Morine Is Prosecuting and H. A. McNeill Is Defending — Three Witnesses Heard This Morning ---- Albert George Hendrie charged with the murder of Peter Davis at the Tete-de-Font barracks on December 18 last, this morning fared trial before Justice Raney is Supreme Court and when court adjourned at noon, the case was fairly well advanced. Evidence had been given regarding the duties of the late Mr. Davis, and of Hendrie's connection with the R.C.H.A., a period of four years.

Every juror on the petit Jury list was called before the Jury for the Hendrie case was finally sworn in and it was necessary to recall a Juror who had been previously asked to stand aside. The jury was finally sworn in as follows: William Hinchey, Kennebec; George Berry, Wolfe Island; H. R. Clarke, Kingston Township; Joseph Slater, Pittsburgh; O. E. Kerr, Portland; John Gordon Storrington: Victor Merrill. Portland; Edward Kennedy, Hinchinbrooke; Fred Redden, Kingston; Howard Murphy, Wolfe Island; E. Reginald Barr, city; Clarence Ellerbeck, Portland. 

Sir Alfred Morine la acting for the Crown while H. A. McNeill is appearing for the accused. Sir Alfred referred to the crime as a particularly atrocious assault showing an unscrupulous determination.

Major Lawson Major H. H. Lawson was the first witness called and he identified plans he made of the Tete-de-Pont Barracks. 

To Mr. McNeill witness said the stairs going into the cellar of the wet canteen, when the crime is alleged to have been committed were unprotected and then was nothing to prevent a person from falling off the stairs to the floor. 

Major Geary Major H. F. Geary, quartermaster at the Tete-de-Pont Barracks, and who was acting adjutant at the time of the crime, produced records of the R.C.H.A. which showed that Albert George Hendrie was formerly a member of the R.C.H.A.

‘What has this to do with the case?" asked Mr. McNeill. “I intend to prove Hendrie was a deserter from the R.C.H.A.,” said Sir Alfred Morine.

“You can show he was a member of the R.C.H.A.,” said Justice Raney. 

Witness said that Hendrie enlisted in November 1928 and was struck off the strength on November 22, 1932. Hendrie was attached to the 3rd Medium Battery in the Tete-de-Pont Barracks

Cross-examined by Mr. McNeill, Major Geary said then had been no marks against Hendrie and the accused, while in the military hospital, was one of the best orderlies there. 

Gunner Harper Gunner L. Harper said he was at Tete-de-Font Barracks on Sunday morning December IS and uw Peter Davis outside the dry canteen "About nine o'clock,” said witness, “Davis came in the guard room and got the keys for the wet canteen. I saw him come out of the wet canteen about fifteen minutes later. He seemed to be trying to attract attention. He staggered and almost fell. I immediately called members of the guard to help him and they did so bringing him to the guard room. I saw him being carried out on a stretcher about three-quarters of an hour later. He was then taken to an ambulance and then to the military hospital." 

Witness said, in answer to Mr. McNeill that Davis, was canteen steward at the barracks .The wet canteen does not open until 12.15 noon on Sunday. 

Court then adjourned till this afternoon.

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1917 11 15 The Big Push - Anthony Saunders

The Battle of Passchendaele lasted for four months and ended in November 1917. Nearly a quarter of a million British, Canadian and New Zealand troops died while fighting for control of the ridges to the south and east of Ypres. It was a high price for victory.This outstanding painting depicts men and horses of the Royal Field Artillery, swamped by mud in a desolate, shattered landscape, dragging their 18 pounder field gun towards a new position on 15 November 1917, during the final days of the battle. Whilst the army continues its grim fight on the ground, overhead Sopwith Camels from 45 Squadron Royal Flying Corps tangle in a deadly duel with German Albatros fighters of Jasta 6. Flying the lead Sopwith Camel is the RFC Ace Second Lieutenant Kenneth Montgomery. He scored the last of his 12 victories in this dogfight when he shot down the German Ace Leutnant Hans Ritter von Adam, the Commanding Officer of Jasta 6 with an impressive 21 victories to his name.

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On this day in Wikipedia: Thursday, 14th September

Welcome, Välkommen, Dzień dobry, नमस्ते 🤗 What does @Wikipedia say about 14th September through the years 🏛️📜🗓️?

14th September 2022 🗓️ : Event - Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II Death of Queen Elizabeth II: The Queen's coffin is taken from Buckingham Palace, placed on a gun carriage of The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery and moved in a procession to Westminster Hall for her lying in state over the next four days with the queue of mourners stretching for miles along the River Thames. "Elizabeth II, queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, died on 8 September 2022 at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, at the age of 96. Elizabeth's reign of over 70 years was the longest of any British monarch. She was succeeded by her eldest son, Charles. Elizabeth's coffin lay at..."

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14th September 2018 🗓️ : Death - Ethel Johnson (wrestler) Ethel Johnson, American professional wrestler (b. 1935) "Ethel Blanche Hairston (née Wingo; May 14, 1935 – September 14, 2018) was an American professional wrestler whose ring name was Ethel Johnson. She debuted at age 16, becoming the first African-American women's champion. She was a fan favorite, billed as "the biggest attraction to hit girl wrestling..."

14th September 2013 🗓️ : Death - Maksym Bilyi (footballer, born 1989) Maksym Bilyi, Ukrainian footballer (b. 1989) "Maksym Ivanovych Bilyi (Ukrainian: Максим Іванович Білий; 27 April 1989 – 14 September 2013) was a Ukrainian football midfielder...."

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14th September 1973 🗓️ : Birth - Mike Ward (comedian) Mike Ward, Canadian comedian and actor "Michael John Ward (born September 14, 1973) is a Canadian comedian. He performs comedy in both French and English...."

Image licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0? by Lisa Gansky from New York, NY, USA

14th September 1923 🗓️ : Birth - Nicholas Georgiadis Nicholas Georgiadis, Greek painter and costume designer (d. 2001) "Nicholas Georgiadis CBE (Greek: Νίκος Γεωργιάδης; 14 September 1923 – 10 March 2001) was a Greek painter, stage and costume designer, best known for his work in ballet, particularly in collaboration with Sir Kenneth MacMillan...."

14th September 1821 🗓️ : Death - Heinrich Kuhl Heinrich Kuhl, German naturalist and zoologist (b. 1797) "Heinrich Kuhl (17 September 1797 – 14 September 1821) was a German naturalist and zoologist. Kuhl was born in Hanau (Hesse, Germany). Between 1817 and 1820, he was the assistant of professor Th. van Swinderen, docent natural history at the University of Groningen in Groningen (the Netherlands). In..."

Image by Friedrich Fleischmann (1791—1834), German painter and engraver

14th September 🗓️ : Holiday - Engineer's Day (Romania) "Engineer's Day is observed in several countries on various dates of the year...."

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Queen Elizabeth Meets Royal Canadian Horse Artillery at Windsor | PEOPLE.com

Queen Elizabeth reunited with the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery at Windsor Castle just two days after speaking publicly for the first time about her late husband, Prince Philip

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It may be tempting to laugh at Michael Caputo, the top communications official at the United States’ Health and Services Department, who recently accused Center for Disease Control scientists of “sedition” and predicted a socialist uprising would follow the November election.

“Remember the Trump supporter who was shot and killed [in Portland late last month]? That was a drill,” Caputo declared in a bizarre, hyper-paranoid broadcast on Facebook Live on September 13. He added: “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get.”

Canadians often watch with fascination as American conspiracy theorists embarrass themselves. It’s certainly tempting to boastfully tell ourselves that intrigue inventories such as QAnon, which Caputo indirectly referenced in his rant, won’t gain a foothold here.

The thing is, it already has. And the mysterious Q — an alleged U.S. government insider who surfaced on the murky 4chan platform in 2017 with claims that Satanic forces were attempting to overthrow President Donald Trump and his administration — has drawn a following in Canada.

QAnon exploded onto the news cycle in July when Manitoba resident Corey Hurren smashed his pickup truck through the wrought-iron gates in front of Rideau Hall, the grounds currently hosting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family, who weren’t home at the time.

Carrying an illegal rifle, revolver and a prohibited magazine of ammunition, Hurren was apprehended after a two-hour stand-off with police. In a two-page letter shared with Global News by an unnamed, Hurren raved that Trudeau was turning Canada into a “Communist country.” Foreign Policy magazine called this the “most high-profile action inspired by QAnon.”

That Hurren was a member of the Canadian Rangers — he even won an award from the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery — isn’t exactly surprising. Multiple investigations have revealed numerous adherents to far-right ideologies or groups within the military, including the Three Percenters and Soldiers of Odin, who have marched in an anti-mask rally alongside QAnon followers.

But even more troubling is QAnon’s infiltration of Canada’s political sphere.

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

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Gunners from the 1st Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery fire a 105mm C3 Howitzer gun as part of Operation Palaci to clear snow pack in danger of avalanche at Rogers Pass, British Columbia, Canada November 22, 2018. Picture taken November 22, 2018. PHOTO BY SLT M.X. DERY /Canadian Forces

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OP VECTOR by Combat Camera / Caméra de combat Via Flickr: A CH-147 Chinook arrives with members of 2 Field Ambulance and 1 Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, returning from Mathias Colomb Cree Nation, in Thompson, Manitoba during Operation VECTOR on 31 March 2021. Photo by Sailor 3rd Class Megan Sterritt, 17 OSS Imaging.

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15 May 1918 Gunners of the Royal Field Artillery training their horses in gas mask drill near Mont-Saint-Éloi, Nord-Pas-de-Calais. The ruins of the abbey can be seen in the background. (Photographer - Second Lieutenant David McLellan) (© IWM Q 8794) On the hill overlooking Arras stand the remains of the two towers which bear testament not only to the once-powerful Mont-Saint-Eloi Abbey but also to the savage fighting that took place in the area during the Great War. From the beginning of the War the abbey towers were used by French troops to observe German positions on Lorette Spur and Vimy Ridge. The suspicions of the French soldiers were aroused when Germans fired upon their every movement until it was realised that what was giving them away was not a spy but the birds nesting on the towers which took flight when troops disturbed them. In early 1916 the British Army relieved French troops in the sector. The latter had established an extension to the local cemetery in Ecoivres, at the foot of the hill, to bury 786 of their soldiers who died there, mostly in the fighting of 1915. A military tramway used to carry supplies to the troops at the front also served as an ambulance to bring back the dead and wounded. This transport system conferred on Ecoivres Military Cemetery an unusual feature in that, from the French extension to the Cross of Sacrifice, the graves of the mostly British and Canadian soldiers are in chronological order relating to the date of death: the graves of the men of the 46th North Midland Division who relieved the French in March 1916 are followed by those of the 25th Division who fell in the German attack at the foot of Vimy Ridge in May 1916; next come the men of the 47th London Division who died between July and October 1916 and finally the graves of the Canadians who lost their lives in the successful assault on Vimy Ridge in April 1917. (Colourised by Benjamin Thomas) https://www.facebook.com/coloursofyesterday 

WW1 Colourised Photos

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Korean War Tag List

Here is the tag list for the Korean War as it currently stands:

                                                 General Tags

Korean War

Cold War

                                                     Battles

Battle of Chosin Reservoir

Battle of the Imjin River

Battle Of Incheon

Battle of Old Baldy

Second Battle of Seoul

Second Battle of Naktong Bulge

Second Battle of the Hook

Fourth Battle of the Hook

Battle of Taejon

Battle of Miudong

Battle of Yultong

                                                   Locations

Chorwon

Daejeon

Hong Kong

Kimpo Air Base

Heartbreak Ridge

Hagaru-ri

Han River

Hyesan

Inje County

Iwakuni

Singapore

Seoul

Suncheon

Suwon 

Miryang

Osan Air Base

Pyongyang

Waegwan

Yalu River

                                                 United States

                                                         Army

US Army

8th Army

1st Cavalry Division

2nd Infantry Division

2nd Engineer Battalion

7th Cavalry Regiment

7th Infantry Division

17th Infantry Regiment

24th Infantry Division

25th Infantry Division

27th Infantry Regiment

40th Infantry Division

45th Infantry Division

51st Signal Battalion

65th Infantry Regiment

77th Engineer Combat Company

89th Medium Tank Battalion

196th Field Artillery Battalion

388th Engineer Pipeline Company

398th Anti-Aircraft Artillery AW Battalion

937th Field Artillery Battalion 

                                                      Marines

1st Marine Division

1st Provisional Marine Brigade

7th Marines

11th Marine Regiment

US Marines

                                                         Navy

US Navy

VMJ-1

VF-24

VF-51

VMF-212

USS Badoeng Strait

                                                      Air Force

US Air Force

3rd Bombardment Wing

17th Bombardment Group

51st Fighter Interceptor Wing

67th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing

452nd Bombardment Wing

731st Bombardment Squadron

                                                        Britain

                                                         Army

British Army

Royal Artillery

Royal Army Service Corps

royal engineers

5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards

7th Royal Tank Regiment

8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars

27th Infantry Brigade

29th Infantry Brigade

King's Own Scottish Borderers

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

The Gloucestershire Regiment

Essex Regiment

Middlesex Regiment

Royal Norfolk Regiment

Royal Leicestershire Regiment

Royal Ulster Rifles

Black Watch

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

Duke of Wellington's Regiment

                                                      Air Force

Royal Air Force

                                                         Navy

Royal Navy

800 Naval Air Squadron

802 Naval Air Squadron

                                                       Australia

                                                       Army

Australian Army

1RAR

2RAR

3RAR

                                                     Air Force

Royal Australian Air Force

No.77 Squadron

No.491 Squadron

                                                United Nations

United Nations

                                                    Philippines

PEFTOK

2nd Battalion Combat Team

10th Battalion Combat Team

14th Battalion Combat Team

19th Battalion Combat Team

20th Battalion Combat Team

                                                Commonwealth

1st Commonwealth Division

                                                      Colombia

Colombian Army

Colombian Navy

                                                        Canada

Canadian Army

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry

Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)

The Royal Canadian Regiment

Royal 22nd Regiment

25th Canadian Infantry Brigade

                                                       Ethiopia

Ethiopian Army

                                                         Turkey

turkish army

                                                         Greece

greek army

                                                  South Korea

1st Infantry Division

8th Infantry Division

South Korean Army

South Korean Marines

Korean Service Corps

                                                   North Korea

North Korean Army

                                                          China

People's Liberation Army

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Men of the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery perform 12-Pounder Gun Drill 1960s

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"NINE ARMY LORRIES SENT TO KINGSTON," Ottawa Journal. May 10, 1930. Page 35. --- First of the fleet of motor vehicles for the mechanization of the R. C. H. A., Kingston, Ont., a train of nine army lorries left Ottawa this morning for transfer to Kingston by road, under charge of officers and men from the district headquarters' garrison. The fleet was made up of six-wheeler lorries, technically designated "battery staff cars." but actually for the accommodation of administrative and directional staff of the unit, containing telephone and radio cars, etc. Twelve other six-wheelers, some of the tractor type, are still to be supplied to Kingston, where the artillery is being mechanized. They are all being conditioned in Ottawa or Toronto before delivery to their batteries.

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Royal Canadian Horse Artillery officers vs "Van Doos" officers in ice hockey during the Korean War (1952)

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Ottawa faces calls to step up on veteran homelessness

Ottawa faces calls to step up on veteran homelessness

Dan Campbell and Benjamin Van Eck were fast friends while serving in 2 Royal Canadian Horse Artillery. The pair were “Stuck at the hip,” as Campbell describes it, during months of training and a deployment to Afghanistan in 2007 where they served on the same gun. Source: CP24

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November 20, 1917 - Battle of Cambrai Begins as 400 British Tanks Charge the German Lines

Pictured - Over 370 British tanks smashed through the German lines at Cambrai on November 20, 1917. It was history’s first “tank battle,” and for the new weapon of war, a qualified success, but British failed to exploit their sudden break-through.

“War, nothing but war.” So said France’s new Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau after hearing of the Bolsheviks request for an immediate armistice between the Allies and the Central Powers. But Britain, not France, had come to be the major player in that struggle. Recuperating from the Passchendaele offensive, and now at the helm of major efforts in Palestine, Greece, and Italy, British forces on the Western Front began another major operation on November 20, 1917.

A quarter of a million British soldiers were gathered along a six-mile front facing the city of Cambrai, held by a quarter of a million Germans. General Julian Byng held command, and with his men he had been given a thousand artillery pieces and three hundred planes grouped into fourteen squadrons.

But the real role was to be played by the tanks. Over 400 of them had been assembled at Cambrai, ready to be used en masse for the first time in history. The idea had been proposed by a junior military officer named J.C. Fuller, who argued that a large tank attack like this would stun the Germans. The tank had been used before, at the Somme and then at Ypres, but only in small numbers, and technical problems had so far given many British officers reasons to doubt their use. Cambrai was to change that.

A British Mark IV tank makes its way to the starting point. This is a “male” tank, because it has a cannon. “Female” tanks had only machine-guns.

At 6:10 AM, the British guns opened up in a short but intense preliminary bombardment. The tanks massed, keeping their engines in low gear to mask the noise. As the barrage crept forward, so did the tanks, an enormous, continuous metal line on the battlefield. The infantry followed behind them.

German soldiers had faced tanks before and given a good account. The British weapon was scary, but it was slow and bulky, and could be knocked out by a well-placed artillery shell, mine, or even in a bullet shot from a powerful enough gun. But they had never faced this. Hundreds of British tanks emerged and rolled through the barbed wire, as German bullets bounced harmlessly off.

“Tank panic” spread throughout the German lines. Tank commander Captain D.G. Browne gleefully watched as “the triple belts of wire were crossed as if they had been beds of nettles, and 350 pathways were sheared through them for our infantry. The defenders of the front trench, scrambling out of dug-outs and shelters to meet the crash and flame of the barrage, saw the leading tanks almost upon them.” The tanks were an invaluable shock weapon, “grotesque and terrifying.” The British, Irish, and Newfoundland troops advancing in their wake mopped up German hold-outs. By the end of the day, they had advanced five miles.

But it was not all good luck for the British. Most distressingly, a tank crushed a bridge over a canal, which held up the cavalry division meant to exploit a break-through. Haig, as always, had readied the horsemen to sweep through a hole in the German lines, riding on and finally creating a decisive victory. Now, because of bad luck, they could not. Browne cursed them in his memoir. One squadron of Canadian cavalry, the Fort Garry Horse, did make it to the battlefield and charged a German machine-gun battery with sabres drawn. In a short fight they cut up fifty Germans until they were blocked by a sunken road. The Canadians dismounted and fought with both rifles and swords back to Masnières, where the infantry had advanced. They made it the closest to Cambrai of any British soldier that day.

And not all the Germans ran. Royal Flying Corps recce flights failed to spot German artillery batteries in the hamlet of Flesquières, half-way between the starting-point and Cambrai. The German gunners boldly stayed at their post and wreaked havoc on the British landships. One junior officer destroyed seven tanks before falling to a British bullet; he was the only German to be personally mentioned in British military despatches during the war.

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Lee Marvin was wounded in battle during World War II. A few movies by other actors who saw combat.

Jimmy Stewart in It’s a Wonderful Life. D: Frank Capra (1946). Stewart was an Army pilot during WWII and flew dozens of dangerous missions inside enemy lines. At least once he took enemy fire and his plane cracked open when he landed at base. He was eventually grounded with what we now know as PTSD. He spends a good part of the Capra movie, his first since returning, playing a man falling apart, alternately enraged and depressed and ultimately suicidal. Once you see it you can’t unsee it.

Mel Blazing Saddles. D: Mel Brooks (1974). Sure he played a burlesque-skit Governor, but he also wrote the scene where Slim Pickens railroad boss needs to send horses to check for quicksand and says “We can’t afford to lose any horses you dummy! Send over a couple of n-----s! I wonder if he was thinking of his service in the Army Corps of Engineers when his duties included defusing land mines ahead of the troops.

Jason Robards in All the President’s Men. D: Alan Pakula (1976). As a Navy radioman, Robards had one ship (USS Northampton) torpedoed and another (USS Nashville) was hit by a kamikaze plane two years later. So when his Ben Bradlee says “Nothing’s riding on this except the first amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press, and maybe the future of the country,” nobody can doubt his authority to say those words.

James Doohan in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. D: Nicholas Meyer (1982). Doohan was a lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Artillery when he hit beach Juno on D-Day. He shot two snipers and led his men through a minefield before being hit by six rounds of friendly fire. (In classic movie fashion, a cigarette case kept him from getting one in the chest). So in ST2 when he shows up on the deck with a dead crewman in his arms and says “He stayed at his post when the trainees ran!”, his experience might have been one of the reasons the scene wasn’t melodramatically silly.

Charles Durning in To Be Or Not to Be. D: Alan Johnson (1983). Durning landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day, was captured in the Battle of the Bulge and was one of only three survivors of a massacre of American POWs at Malmedy, Belgium. He got his second Oscar nomination for playing a buffoonish S.S. Colonel. Revenge is best served with a substantial paycheck.