Port Perry High School - Hilltop Yearbook (Port Perry, Ontario Canada)

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Cadet Captain Earle Dobson goes to iational Cad-u Aaa. Camp at Banff, Alberta THhJNagQin57sQgQs3 Camp is located at Banff in the Canadian Rockies. The camp is a, 3 H e feature of the Royal Canadian Army Cadet training and was designed as such to compare with the national exchange visits for cadets of the other two Services. The National Cadet Camp is to reward individual cadets for their proficiency in .cadet training, together with outstandingww U 1 interest in cadet work and their contribution M, to this training in their own corps. CadtQs., selected to attend the c1-v Aust have attained the proficiency rating of Wmaster Cadet,W or WCadet First Coursen. Selection is on a comnetative basis with the final authority vestedfinw- the Command - This camp is a national t'oss-section of the most efficient Royal Canadian Army Cadetsg Cadets selected to A attend the National Cadet Camp are out-standing examples of the results to be obtained, through cadet training. ,lnc consequence, therefore, only those cadets who have the highest motives, coupled with the best qualities of character and determination, are in attendance. B The authorized quota is l5C boys. The camp is of three. weeks duration, 'Part of the training is devoted to purely military subjects, while the remainder allows the maximum opportunities to visit places of interest, Work on subjects peculiar to the mou allied subjects ada spot. atains is carried on L to the recrea+ion in this national beauty . Trail riding and Billeting is arranged so that cadets are grouped in sections composed thereby providing of representatives of the various provinces, educational value bv discussion of local affairs. Church parades are held ca,h Sunday to the churches' of Banff, Chaplains, provided by the Canadian Chaplain . Q Services,fare attached for the duration of the camp to give moral and spiritual guidance, fi. Captain Dobson last year in his Senior Leaders Course at Camp lpperwash, obtaining Win grouping in his course, showed himself a worthy candidate for this National Cadet Camp.

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GaN? IPPERNAJH , , 4 fContinuedD For the first three.weeks most of the time was spent learning the proper procedure to use when speaking over the wireless sets. A section of the course dealt with telephone sets, switchboirds, public address, and the operation of an army signal office. je also learned how to lay temporary or permanent telephone lines, both on foot and from a-vehicle. We gained practical experience by laying lines along the roads and Z through the fields near the camp. Other subjects on the course included cable-splicing, pole-climbing and general militiry training. During the final week of camp we had a chance to put into practice all that we had learned. A six day scheme, which covered territory within ten miles of camp gave every cadet a chance at each job he had learned through out the previous six weeks. Parts of this course will be valuable to us in civilian life. ' p - T .' x' A The last day of camp was called Governor General's day. This year the Governor General could not attend so he sent another person in his place.w The companies lined up and the band and the company which was chosen the best during the duraticn of camp were inspected. After this we watched demonstrations by some cadets from each company. 'The rest of the day we hai off to get things ready for home. For the last supper ct camp the officers ate at the Sergeants' mess where we had Tabonc steaks and all the trimmings. after this the cadet officers had to wait on the rest of the cadets in the mess hall. ,A That night we packed our clothes in our bags, returned the ones that were lent to us, and got rcidy to leave camp. we then received our checues for spending the summer at camp. Early the nest morning we left by bus for Ietford where we got the train for Toronto. , Stan Glass Jim Wilkinson T G rry Lawrence

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