Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1043-1944 XYIRELESS. Morse, theory and procedure. We are all mixed up here : Canadian, Guards and all the British Line Regiments seem to be represented. R. S. M.s with 10 years service, are mixed with people like myself with five months. I was lucky enough to get ll days leave over Christmas which was very pleasant. London gets boring, but I am never there long enough to get bored I I miss ski-ing, naturally, but I hope you are having a good winter. How is Selwyn House getting on F I have met one or two people that I met at B.C.S. over here g I saw Ted Hugessen last summer, just of to Malta in a Spitfire. Please excuse this incoherent and scribbled note, but a crowded barrack room Csitting on one's bedl does not aid one's thought or writing. Well Lights out is iust going 7 c, . - ,Y Yours ever, B. P. Pk if if Bill May is a Lieutenant in the Army at Petawawa. PF if if Mike Little is a Lieutenant in the R.C.N.V.R. Pk Y PK Peter Grier is a Flight Lieutenant instructing in the R.C.A.F. and was recently married. BF PK PF Dickie Birks is a Sub-Lieutenant in the R.C.N.Y.R. and won second prize in his class at H.M.C.S. Kings, Halifax. .F ft ,F Arthur Billy Bishop is a Pilot Officer in the R,C.A.F. overseas Hying lighters. at ik at Dick Grier is a Lieutenant in the 27th Can. Arm. Regt. C.A.O. is ak Pk Gerry Hampson is with the 5th C.I.R.V. .2 as wk Andy Hersey, recently married, was at Camp Borden, Ont. wk at 4: John Hodge is a Sub-Lieutenant in the R.C.N.V.R. l7l

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SFLWYN HOUSE SCHOOL IN1.-MSAZINE America's Call to Arms. Flowers at TVork. Ski Revels. Raising Air lfighters. Britain's Commandos in Action. .laps Bomb U.S.A. XYild Elephant Round-up. Italy Surrenders. Glacier National Park. Clyde Beatty's Animal Thrills. l.a Gare, Ca French educational filmj Sport Spellbinders. How Nature protects. Volcanoes in Action. British-Greek Victories. Native Africa. Axis Smashed in Africa. The French U . QAnother film in French, with sound, illustrating the proper pronunciation of the French U J Track Meet Thrills. Aida hy the Boston Symphony Orchestra Selections. A frica Pigmy Thrills. Rome. How Nature Protects Animals. News Parade of I9-ll. How Movies Move and Talk. String Choir. Fight for Fgypt. Here comes the Circus. PF Ili Pk The Headmaster has received the following letter from Blaikie Purvis in England. Dear Sir, I am at Pre-O.C.T.U., now, and hope to be at Sandhurst in a couple of weeksg from there in a matter of 6 or 7 months I might get my commission in the Scots Guards. This is the Royal Armoured Corps Pre-O.C.T.U. where spit and polish and attention to detail reign supreme. Reveille is at 6.00 A.lN1. and there is no hot water! The training here is : CEENERAI. TXTIIVFARY 'I'RAiNiNo-Map Reading, Drill, P. T., Weapon Training flnliantry YYeapons.l Diuvmo AND TXTAINTENANCE. - Driving trucks and motorcycles Cacross countryl and theory. GVNNERY. American and British Tank Guns. l6l

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SHLWYN HUFSH SCHOOL MAGAZINE-f David Hodgson is ll Suli-Lieutenant in the R.C.N.V.R. 34 as PK Tony hlaclier is a Sub-Lieutenant in the R.C.N.V.R. 'llcdtlv hlaclier is in the R.C.A.l+'. Pk iii if We hear that Hugh Norsworthy has flown Havocs, Mosquitoes, Beautighters, Spitfires, and is now on Tvphoons. Bob Sebag-hlonteliore is a Signalman in the R.C.C.S. overseas and was married not long ago. Lord Billy Shaughnessv and Hugh Mackenzie are Lieutenants in the Grenadier Regt. -lth Brigade, 4th Can. Armed Div. C.:X.U. wk Pk Sli john Shuter is with the R.C.A.F. George Winters, a Flying Oiiicer in the R.C.A.F.T.C. is Operational Officer at Nashville, Ten. lk Pk as Alistair lYregg is a Midshipman in the R.C.N.Y.R. if iii Pl! Ian McCuaig has recently joined the R.C.A.l+'. Pl! 7? 31 Stockwell Day is OS., R.C.N.V.R., at Deepbrook, NS. Eric Hutchison, who led his class at H.M.C.S. Kings, is now Sub-Lieut. R.C.N.V.R. 254 Pk if Guy Drummond is a Pilot Officer in the R.C..-LF. 154 YF FF Jacques Chevalier gave up his commission to get back on active duty with the R.C.N.Y.R. He is a radio operator overseas. Michel Chevalier gave up his commission to go overseas with the C. .-X. Lieut. John Kemp is with the Black YVatch, C..-XO. 7F H4 H4 Dave Culver is a Private in the Army, trying to remuster to the R.C..-LF. l9l