Brandon College established a Canadian Officer Training Corps (COTC) program in 1916 and had enough students for a platoon that would join the 196th Western Universities Battalion's B Company. COTC logs for in the SJ McKee Archives show that at least 40 men regularly attended classes on campus during the 1916 winter term.
The Brandon Daily Sun published the names of 60 potential platoon recruits before they headed to Camp Hughes to train in the summer of 1916. Although Lt. J.R.C. Evans spearheaded the training of the COTC enlistees at Brandon College, he was found medically unfit for overseas service. In his stead, the son of the college's founder, Lt. William Carey McKee, lead the platoon to Camp Hughes where they joined the 196th Battalion. Of the 60 recruits identified in the local paper, 20 would not survive the war, including Lt. McKee. [ST/2016]
Scope and Content
Photograph shows a group of 40 men wearing WWI uniforms. The men have the Canada general service cap badge on their headdress. The officer in the centre of the group (i.e., the man with the cane) is J.R.C. Evans. The group of men are likely members of the first Brandon College Platoon, which joined the 196th Western Universities Battalion.
Photograph shows the recently constructed Strathcona Block. H. Lamontagne & Co. Ltd., Wholesale, occupies the ground floor. Scaffolding is suspended from the north side of the building. Buildings have yet to be erected to the north and south sides of the Strathcona Block.
Notes
Back of photograph is stamped: Hughes & Co. Ltd., 1009 Princess Ave., Brandon, Man.
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
Brandon General Hospital
Notes
[View is from the southwest]
[Mr. Stuckey taped a print to the outside of the envelope. We have separated the print and negative, numbering the negative G7(1) and the print G7(1a).]
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
Brandon General Hospital
Notes
[View is from the southwest]
[Mr. Stuckey taped a print to the outside of the envelope. We have separated the print and negative, numbering the negative G7(1) and the print G7(1a).]
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
Assiniboine Centre
Notes
[Mr. Stuckey taped the print to the outside of the envelope. We have separated the negative and the print, numbering the negative G10(1) and the print G10(1a).]
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
Assiniboine Centre
Notes
[Mr. Stuckey taped the print to the outside of the envelope. We have separated the negative and the print, numbering the negative G10(1) and the print G10(1a).]
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
Assiniboine Centre
Notes
From front of General Hospital [looking southeast].
[Mr. Stuckey taped the print to the outside of the envelope. We have separated the neg and the print, numbering the negative G11(1) and the print G11(1a).]
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
Assiniboine Centre
Notes
From front of General Hospital [looking southeast].
[Mr. Stuckey taped the print to the outside of the envelope. We have separated the neg and the print, numbering the negative G11(1) and the print G11(1a).]
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