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

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R. M. C. REVIEW' 13 Ediiorial Noies N this number we are greatly indebted to No. 123, Major-General Sir Dudley Ridout, K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G., for writing the most inspiring Foreword which appe-ars above, and also to No. 255, Major-General H. A. Panet, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Adjutant-General, for allowing us to use his photograph as our frontispiece. It is interesting to note that General Ridout is the son of the first Staff-Adjutant for Captain of Cadets as he was then calledb of the College, the late Lt.-Colonel J. B. Ridout, 80th Regiment and 90th Light Infantry, who was on the College Staff from the opening, 1876, until the year 1882, and that General Panet was the third Staff-Adjutant of the College serving in that capacity from 1901-1905. Pk if Pk Pk In our last number we had the honour of publishing a letter from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and in this number we have the like honour of publishing a letter from the Royal Air Force College at Cran- well. We sincerely hope that these little tentative acts of liaison will be perpetuated and also copied by the other military colleges in the Empire. We already, of course. have a very tangible connection with the United States Military Academy at West Point in the shape of an annual inter- national hockey matchg this year it was our privilege to welcome them to our College. An account of their visit will be found elsewhere in this number. Pk Pk Pk Pk At the moment of writing these no-tes improvements to the grounds or buildings are only just commencing, the new tennis court, between the back of the Sir Arthur Currie Hall and the new Machinery Hall, is begin- ning to take shape. Pk Dk 34 214 Our history so far this year has been a happy and uneventful one, and any threats that we may have had of epidemics have luckily remained merely threats. ik bk 254 Dk May we call the attention of our readers to the fact that our next issue in December will mark the tenth anniversary of the founding of this Review. We ask everyone who can, to help us to make this number a worthy one by sending us articles or old photographs of a suitable nature. CThe photographs will be returned unharmed.J No. 7, L. H. Irving, Esq., has already kindly sent us an interesting old group photograph, with the promise of more, and Colonel E. F. Wurtele is, as always, nobly rising to the occasion. We hope to hear something more from the Scribes men- tioned in the Notes of the Annual Meeting of the Royal Military College Club, later in this number. Pk bk Pk Pk Our heartiest wishes to the new branch of the EX-Cadet Club in New York and to its first president, No. 249, Walter Douglas, Esq. Pk Pk wk Pk We take this opportunity of wishing our Graduating Class, to whom our June Number is always dedicated, all prosperity in their future lives, they know they have our good wishes wherever they may go or whatever they may do. With General Ridout's splendid Foreword just above these notes there is no need for us to say anything more.

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12 R. M. C. REVIEW I am writing this for the Review, so may I just say a word about it. I think that as a publication it is excellent. and one of which the Editor- in-Chief may well be proud. As a record of events I think it is most refreshing and gives a won- derfully live account of all the marvellous activities of the Cadets, and though I, personally, do not know any of the Cadets I take a very lively interest, as do hundreds of others, in all their doings, and wish myself once more back at the College to enjoy it all. Of all those activities I had personal experience in 1925 for I had the great good luck to visit the College in that year, just forty years to the month since I graduated. May I say how proud I was to see such a fine set of sturdy and steady men, and may I express my admiration at the skill shown in mounted and dismounted work, and the courage shown in the marvellous P.T. dis- play I witnessed, for high courage and nerve were requisite in some of the exercises. The training of the present day appears to be more severe than in my day, while the academic side made me feel that I was lucky to have passed through when it was not so exacting. Everything I saw filled me with intense pride and called into play every atom of esprit de corps. It behoves the Cadets to benefit by this excellent training, to preserve the high traditions and to hand down a worthy heritage. I have tried to confine myself to fact-and I do not wish to moralize -but I think I shall be helping my brother Cadets if I urged them to lead a clean, vigorous life of honest endeavour and determination, to regulate their actions in relation to others by a scrupulous regard for the rights and opinions of others, by endeavouring to look at every question from the opposite point of View as well as their own. I believe most thoroughly that the Commandant and his Staff are fully alive to what I urge-and never fail to bring it to the notice of the Cadets not only by their own example but by their teachings. The fact that they do is measured by the success of the finished article, for the Cadet stands high in the estimation of everyone wherever he may be. And in wishing the Staff, Cadets, and Ex-Cadets all prosperity and good wishes, I would close with an extract I made some years ago from a previous issue of the Review, which I have always carried with me day by day ever since. It is a fine creed and I think might well be adopted by the College. He Profits Most Who Serves Best To live as bravely as I can To be, no matter where, a man, To take what comes of good or ill, And cling to faith and honour still, To do my best, and let that stand The record of my brain and hand, And then, should failure come to me Still work and hope for Victory. -E. Guest. Richmond. Surrey, April, 1929.

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14 R.IlI.C. REVIEW STAFF NEWS We regret very much to announce the death of Professor David Wal- ter Munn, M.A., M.Sc., A.M.E.I.C., which occurred at Halifax, N.S., on January 23rd, 1929. Professor Munn was in charge of the Civil Engi- neering Department at the College from 1920-1921. The following members of the Staff have been moved to other spheres:- Captain and brevet Major R. H. Dewing, D.S.O., M.C., R.E., has re- turned to duty in England after having been G.S.O. 2 at the College for the past two years. No. 749, Major and brevet Lieut.-Colonel H. D. G. Crerar, D.S.O., C.F.A., after one year as Professor of Tactics and officer commanding B Company, has been appointed G.S.O. 1, Ottawa. Lieut. and brevet Captain G. B. Bradbrooke, M.C., L.S.H. CR.C.J, at the end of last year proceeded to the Staff College, Quetta. We cordially welcome the following new additions to our Staff:- G.S.O. 2, Major G. R. P. Roupell, V.C., r.s.c.. East Surrey Regiment, who has replaced Major R. H. Dewing, D.S.O., M.C., R.E. Major Roupell re- ceived his early military education at Sandhurst, he served throughout the Great War, and won the V.C., Croix de Guerre, Order of St. George, and was mentioned three times in despatches. In 1919 he served in North Russia, later was Brigade Major of the 10th Infantry Brigade at Shorn- cliffe, and came to us from Gibraltar where he had been stationed with his Regiment. Major Roupell won the V.C. for conspicuous gallant-ry on f'Hill 60 , Assist. Instructor in Tactics. Captain W. S. Fenton, The R.C.R., who has succeeded Captain G. B. Bradbrooke, M.C., L.S.H., CR.C.J. Captain Fenton served Overseas throughout the Great War, from 1916-1917 he was Staff-Captain at the Canadian Training Area, England, from 1924- 1926 he was District Weapon Training Officer at M.D. 1, London. Professor of Tactics and oflicer commanding B Company. No. 743, Major L. C. Goodeve, D.S.O., P.S.C., O.F.A., who has succeeded Lieut. Colonel Crerar, went' Overseas at the beginning of the Great War and was Brigade Major of the 4th Canadian Divisional Artillery in France from 1917-1919. From 1920-26 he was G.S.O. 1, M.D. No. 11. Latterly he has been Canadian Officer on loan to the War Oflice. General We were very glad to hear, and to receive New Year's greetings, from Professor Georges Vattier, D-es-L., who is still Director of the Mission Laique Francaise, Salonica, where he is kept very busy with his 1,200 pupils and 50 teachers. Dr. P. Lowe, Instructor in Mathematics, is doing research work this summer at the General Electric Research Laboratories, his special work being on Discharges through Gases . He has already published the fol- lowing papers:- On the Structure of Balmer Lines in the spectrum of Hydrogen , Intensities in Hydrogen Spectrum , Intensities in Helium Spectrum , Intensities in Argon Spectrum , Effect of Pressure on the excitation of Hydrogen Spectrum by Electron Impact . Four of these papers have been published by the Royal Society of Canada and the other by the Physical Review. -W, R, P, B,