Royal Military College of Canada - Review Yearbook (Kingston, Ontario Canada)

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10 I R. M. C. REVIEW STAFF NOTICES Birth. On April 19th, 1927, to Colonel and Mrs. H. F. H. Hertzberg, a daugh- ter fDorothea Helen Annb . A Sk Ill It Death. It is with great regret that we have to record the death of Brigadier- General Sir 'Edward Raban, K.B.E., R.E., who was Professor of Military Engineering at the College from 1883-1886. After leaving the College, Sir Edward held the position of Superintending Civil Engineer at Portsmouth, and later Engineer-in-Chief and Director of Works at the Admiralty. Dur- ing the War he served on the Staff of Lord French, and later was appointed a Deputy Director at the War Office. General. We were very sorry to lose Major C. J. Wallace, D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., the Highland Light Infantry, who returned to duty in England after having been G.S.O.2 at the College for the last two years. Before leaving, Major Wallace was presented privately with a small piece of plate by his friends on the Staff, and was also a private guest of the Commandant at a dinner given at the R. C. H. A. Mess. We have also, unfortunately, lost another member of the Staff. Lieut. P. E. Poirier, M.M., Royal 22nd Regiment, after a short sojourn with us, has been appointed District Weapon Training Officer, M. D. 4. It is with great pleasure that we welcome Captain and brevet Major R. H. Dewing, D.S.O., M.C., R.E., who has taken Major Wallace's position as G.S.O.2 at the College. Major Dewing is a graduate of the Royal Mili- tary Academy, Woolwich. After passing through the School of Military Engineering at Chatham, he saw service in India, later taking the Senior Captain's Course in Musketry at Hythe. During the Great War Major Dewing was on active service in Mesopotamia for four yearsg since then he has been on the Staff of the. S. M. E., Chatham. In 1923-'24 he was at the Staff College, Camberley. I We also welcome with much pleasure another Exchange Officer, Lieut. A. B. Sullivan, of the 16f5 Lancers as Instructor in Tactics. Mr. Sullivan was educated at Wellington College and Sandhurst. After gradu- ating from the latter he joined his Regiment in India. Later he sp-ent six months in Australia and New Zealand, and then rejoined his Regiment in Egypt. From Egypt he was ordered to Canada. Just after Christmas we were very glad to welcome Mr. A. Bleau, B.A. CLava1J, B.Sc. CMcGi1lJ as Instructor in Chemistry and French. Mr. Bleau is a member of the Corporation of Professional Engineers of the Province of Quebec. Before coming to us he held engineering appointments with the Electrical Commission of the City of Montreal and the Montreal Water Board. . Our heartiest congratulations to Lt.-Col. E. J. C. Schmidlin, M.C., on his appointment as Senior Professor at the College. We are very glad to hear that our late Comandant, Lieut.-General Sir A. C. Macdonell, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., LL.D., is as active as ever. He has been elected President of the Canadian Club in Calgary, and also Head Commissioner of the Boy Scouts for Alberta, two positions that he would fill most admirably. Furthermore we are delighted to see that he has been elected an Honorary Life Member of the R. M. C. Club.

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R. M. C. REVIEW voL. V111 JUNE, 1927 0,32,ES,P?.5-,153 Editorial Notes E have thehonour and pleasure of presenting, as a frontispiece to this number, a picture of His Excellency Viscount Willingdon, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., G.B.E., Governor-General of Canada, whom we hope shortly to welcome on his first official visit to the College. The past year at the College has been pleasantly placid and uneventful. The impartation and acquirement of knowledge have kept the unoiseless tenour of their way, good health has been prevalent, and the record in sports excellent. At the end of the Christmas term we won both the Do- minion and the Intermediate Intercollegiate Rugby Football Championships, and also came out ahead in the Kingston City and District Soccer League. This term we have won the Intermediate Intercollegiate Hockey Cham- pionship and the International Hockey Match with West Point. We have a large Graduating Class this yearg most of them have left their mark on the College Records, in one way or another. We need not remind them that they have the good wishes of the College always with them in their future careers, but we do want to remind them that the best way for them to keep in touch with their old College is to write fully and frequently to the Editor of this Review, telling him all the news about them. selves or any other ex-Cadets whom they may run across in the various parts of the world to which their duty may call them. We very much regret that Maj or-General J. H. MacBrien, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Chief of Staff, always such a good friend of the College, is retiring. We are very grateful to him for allowing us to publish in this issue his most interesting lecture on The Defence Side of the Imperial Conference, 1926. Our feelings of sorrow are tempered with pride at the thought that his place is to be filled by an ex-Cadet, No. 256, Major-General H. C. Thacker, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. So far as we know, for the first time in the history of the College, an ex-Cadet, actively employed in the army, has risen to a full Generalship. No. 138, Lieut.-General Sir George M. Kirkpatrick, K.C.B., K.C.S.I., Gen- eral Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Command, India, has attained that great honour. General Kirkpatrick's picture formed the frontispiece of our last number. May we once again, risking the charge of vain repetition, implore all ex-Cadets to make a point of sending us news items, changes of address, etc.? We are certain that they cannot possibly be more tired of reading this request than we are of making it. At present we rely, with every con- fidence, on Lt.-Col. E. F. Wurtele- for Canadian news, and Major A. H. J ukes for Indian news. If anything should happen to stop these two good friends of the College, and the Review in their kindly work, which God forbid, we should be in a sorry plight. We direct the attention of all our readers to the copy of a letter in the ex-Cadet Section of this Number, by Major J ukes, which, though addressed to ex-Cadets in India, applies mutatis mu- tandis, to all connected with the College.

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R. M. C. REVIEW 11 At the last Annual Meeting of the Royal Military College Club of Canada, Professor I. E. Martin, Professor of Mathematics 1890-1920,,and Director of Studies, 1917-1922, was made an Honorary Member. Our heartiest congratulations to Capt. E. J. Harvey, not only on his majority, but also on his completion of 25 years' service at the College, at the end of last year. We were most pleased to hear from Professor G. Vattier, Professor of French at the College from 1918 to 1925. He is now Directeur de Etablisse- ment de la Mission Laique Francaise at Salonique, where he is, as he says himself, Very busy with 1287 pupils, what a work! W. R. P. B. h PRESENTATIONS 1. Two large portraits of General The Rt. Hon. Baron Byng of Vimy, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., M.V.O., and Lady Byng have been presented to the College to bring our collection of portraits of Governors-General and their Ladies up to date. 2. A copy of Palmer's Detail was kindly presented by John H. Bu- chanan, Esq., M.I.C.E. 3, Major H. T. Cock, M.C., The Royal Canadian Regiment, presented two water-colour sketches showing the uniforms worn by the Gentlemen Cadets, R.M.C., in 1876 and 1926. 4. The late Lieut.-Colonel G. E. Laidlaw, Lord Strathcona's Horse CR-CJ, and ex-Cadet of the R. M. C. fNo. 719 , bequeathed to this institution three military pictures and Day Book of the Strathcona Horse in South Africa. 5. A bronze tablet to the memory of the late Lieutenant Travers Wil- liams-Taylor lex-Cadet No. 10251 has been presented by all ranks of the 13thf18th Hussars Chis late Regimentl. Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor has also presented the head of an Abyssinian buffalo killed by his son. 6. Collections of Canadian minerals and fossils have been presented to the College through the kindness of Dr. H. M. Ami, of the Laboratory of Geology, Ottawa. These collections are for illustrating lectures on Mineral- ogy and Geology. They have also been suitably displayed. 7. Through the instrumentality of Mr. Algernon Ridout, a coloured en- graving of The Battle of Queenston has been presented by Mrs. Neilson for reproduction in the R. M. C. Review, and then for presentation to the College Museum. Mrs. Neilson is 9. sister of ex-Cadet No. 123, General Sir Dudle-y H. Ridout, K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G., R.E. 8. Through the kindness of ex-Cadet No. 96, James White, Esq., Tech- nical Advisor to the Department of Justice, Ottawa, we have received pho- tographs of several early pictures of Kingston, formerly in the Archives in Ottawa. EX-Cadet No. 567, J. H. Peters, Esq., Surveyor-General, very kindly co-operated with Mr. White in obtaining these pictures for the Col- lege. It is hoped to reproduce these pictures from time to time in the R. M. C- Review. - 9. Dr. E. A. Spilsbury has very kindly presented to the Library 2 books, Naval Occurrences, London, 1817 3 and Norie's Naval Gazetteer, Lon- don, 1827. These books belonged to Capt. F. B. Spilsbury, R.N., one of Sir James Yeo's captains in the War of 1812-14. 2 V H. O.WILLS.