Presentation of Colours 1945 - The Hollow Square

Photograph

Royal Montreal Regiment Museum

Name/Title

Presentation of Colours 1945 - The Hollow Square

Entry/Object ID

2017x.35.10

Description

A composite of aerial photographs providing a panoramic view of The Royal Montreal Regiment formed up in hollow square at the start of the Presentation of Colours ceremony. Officers have taken post in front of their companies while the Colour party awaits in the foreground behind the Chaplain who is standing at the altar of piled drums. Beyond the company on the left is the band of the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps which provided the music for the parade.

Photograph Details

Subject Person or Organization

Robertson, Struan Ross, Tingle, Harold Joseph, Willis, Henry Lawlor, Emblem, Clifford Joseph, Daniels, W. Gerry, Fitch, Burton, Scovil, Thomas Knowlton, Cornish, Frank Bennett, Rea, John Kenneth, Willis, Matthew Alexander, Berkowitz, Saul Milton, Giddings, G. H., Bailey, Marcus Henry, Moodie, Allan Trevor, Rice, Ernest H., Dowler, Edwin Cecil, Byrne, James T., Sedlezky, Leo, Schwob, Robert Julien, Blue, John Lawrence, Crerar, Henry Duncan Graham, Hodges, Gordon Malcolm Howard

Subject Place

* Untyped Subject Place

Amersfoort

Country

Netherlands

Continent

Europe

Made/Created

Date made

Jul 10, 1945

Research Notes

Notes

Accompanying the composite photo is a letter from Lieut G.H. Howard Hodges of the RMR writing to the Editor of the Regimental Journal "Intercomm" from Amersfoort following the ceremony. He described the proceedings and named a number of RMR officers who came from elsewhere to attend the event. He provided a sketch to serve as a legend identifying all the officers on the parade ground appearing in the composite photo. He also enclosed a number of photographs of this event as well as another parade when the RMR turned over Guard duties at Army H.Q to the Cdn. Grenadier Guards on June 30, 1945, and photos of some of the new officers who had recently joined the Battalion.