Gymnastic Exercices

Name/Title

Gymnastic Exercices

Entry/Object ID

2016x.50.150

Description

Gymnastic formation where The Royal Montreal Regiment members are wearing white clothes. This was part of the RMR School of Arms display for the public, March 1930.

Photograph Details

Subject Place

* Untyped Subject Place

Royal Montreal Regiment Armoury, Westmount

State/Province

Quebec

Country

Canada

Continent

North America

Made/Created

Date made

Mar 21, 1930

Research Notes

Notes

This event was part of the annual Regimental School of Arms which ran from November to March each year and brought the Regiment much distinction during the 1920s and early 1930s. Created at the suggestion of Lieut.-Col. C.B. Price, it was organized and led by Lieut.-Col. F. H. Wallis, M.C., formerly of the London Rifle Brigade, where he had directed a similar school for the Rifle Brigade. Each year ended with a spectacular gymnastics tournament the climax of which was a tug-of-war competition in which units of the Montreal Garrison entered teams. (Ref. RMR History, Vol.II, pp.3-4)