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

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12 R. M. C. REVIEW With the one great exception of the Vice-regal visit the past term has been singularly uneventful. The unusually mild winter and the absence of artificial ice at the College made our Hockey Team a little slower in getting under way. Towards the end of the season, however, they were giving an excellent account of themselves and won the International Hockey Match against West Point by the score of 3-1. The Basketball teams made slow but steady progress and the first team played for the first time in the senior league. In shooting we won the Inter-University Rifle Match. A Winter Sports Meet was, of course, out of the question this last winter. The early spring brought back soccer and tennis earlier than usual. Pk ik ,lf P14 The new Mess Building is at last under way and the foundation digging is providing work for a number of the unemployed encamped on the lower Barriefield Common. This unemployment relief camp is under the direction of the Commandant. Dk Pk :lf :lf The Library is slowly filling up mainly through the generous gifts of the EX-Cadet Branch Clubs, individual past and present cadets and other kind friends of the College, but there will always be room and welcome for more books. The very decorative regimental and college shields are also growing in numbers, but there again we hanker for more. They add very greatly to the charm and interest of the Library. 93 Pk Pls ,lf As usual this is the Graduating Number and we are both glad and sorry to publish the photographs of the Graduating Class. May we repeat to them the final words of the Governor-General's speech on the 6th of May to the Cadet Battalion, and wish them The best of good fortune and happiness in the future ?

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R.M. C. REVIEW C WIC I 1 LLAI-L VOL. XIV JUNE, 1933 Jf...,Sf,3g-,,,,,,, ' -if FN' ' Laika- .: ff?-f .,. , ,, , 'f Q ..,. ij V. . y-65,-1-,.g:v,-:J-:-Q-Q: --.-. . -4.2-IJ1. V ' A , 'ali' Q1 U , f-.L W- 'Q-ffm if f A ' . 529 , ir . i Q?-1 rg VALQ ff' .. . xl' . VA-,,,. EDITORIAL E are very greatly honoured by being allowed to publish in this number, as our frontispiece, a picture of Her Excellency the Coun- tess of Bessborough. This is the first time in its history that the Review has departed from its custom of having its premier illustra- tion reserved for one of the sterner sex. This is also the first time in the history of the Review that we have felt absolutely certain that what we have done will meet with the unanimous approval of our readers. We are indeed grateful to Her Excellency. In our last Graduating Number we were graciously permitted to publish a picture of His Excellency the Governor-General, shortly after he had honoured the College with his presence. So that it is particularly fitting that in this issue we should have the- portrait of Lady Bessborough shortly after the visit of both Their Excellencies. It is a very great honour to the College and a source of great pride to all ranks that twice in twelve months we have had the privilege of welcom- ing the Governor-General of the Dominion, and of seeing the Vice-regal flag floating over the College Tower. We are still more Hattered by the fact that on his second visit he was accompanied by Her Excellency and further that both Their Excellencies did not make merely a formal inspec- tion but stayed with us for a day and a half and, so far as they could, joined in our life, viewing our activities and attending Divine Service with the Staff and Cadets. It is of interest to note that the Earl of Bessborough is the twelfth successive Governor-General of Canada to visit the College since its foundation in 1876, the first one being the Earl of Dufferin in the year 1877.

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R. M. C. REVIEW 13 STAFF NOTES Births. SNOW-At Kingston, on March 20th, 1933, to Captain and Mrs. T. E. Snow, a son - Michael Rochfort. Marriages. MARTIN-HOME -On Tuesday, April 4th, 1933, at the residence of the bride's parents, 362 Grande Allee, Quebec, Barbara Anne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs W. A. Home, to Major George Noel Chadwick Mar- tin, D.S.O., M.C., R.A., late G.S.O. 2, R.M.C. Changes. His term of duty at the College having expired at the beginning of April, Major G. N. C. Martin, D.S.O., M.C., R.A., p.s.c., left both the College and bachelorhood Csee notice aboveb. For the past two years he has been our G.S.O. 2. A most pleasant companion in work or play, he was always ready to pass on his expert knowledge. We wish him and his bride all happiness and success. bk if 214 Pk We have great pleasure in welcoming to the Staff Major C. A. P. Muri- son, M.C., p.s.c., p.a.c., R.A., who has succeeded Major G. N. C. Martin as G.S.O. 2. Major Murison was educated at Trinity College School, Port Hope, and at McGill University where he was one of the original members of the McGill O.T.C. When war broke out he received one of the three commissions offered to McGill by the British War Office and was gazetted to the Royal Field Artillery in October, 1914. From February to December, 1915, he served in France and later saw service in Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, European Turkey and Asia Minor, being mentioned in despatches and gaining the M.C. After the Great War he served in England. From 1924 to 1928 he was Assistant Superintendent of Experiments at the Experimental Estab- lishment, Shoeburyness, and for the last two years he has been Staff Officer, Royal Artillery, at Headquarters, Eastern Command, in London. Major Murison is the only officer on the active list of the British Army to hold both the p.s.c. and the p.a.c. certiflcates, he has passed both the Staff College, Camberley, and the Advanced Class at the Military College of Science, Woolwich. Dk Q14 3: 211 Among contributors to the Canadian Defence Quarterly this year there have been the following members or ex-members of the Staff :- Major E. L. M. Burns, M.C., p.s.c., Protection of the Rearward Ser- vices and Headquarters in Modern War . This essay won the Canadian Defence Quarterly Essay Competition for 1932. Major L. C. Goodeve, Economics and National Defence . Squadron Leader G. E. Wait, Aims and Objects: A Study in Doc- trines . Lieut.-Colonel R. O. Alexander, D.S.O., The Cost of a New Military Coat: The Fitting of the Coat . Prof. W. R. P. Bridger, M.A., Military Education .