Photograph of the Battalion Commanding Officers of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade, WWI Canadian Expeditionary Force

Photograph

Royal Montreal Regiment Museum

Name/Title

Photograph of the Battalion Commanding Officers of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade, WWI Canadian Expeditionary Force

Entry/Object ID

2003.57.02

Description

A photo of the four Battalion Commanding Officers of the 3rd Cdn. Infantry Brigade, taken in 1918. The officer seated at the left is Lieutenant Colonel Dick Worrall, DSO, MC, who Commanded the 14th Bn CEF (RMR); April 1918 to April 1919. The second Officer is Lieutenant Colonel C. E. Bent, Commanding Officer of the 15th Bn. (48th Highlanders of Canada), CEF. The third Officer from the left is Lieutenant Colonel Cyrus W. Peck, Commanding Officer of the 16th (Canadian Scottish) Battalion, CEF, was a Victoria Cross winner. The fourth officer is Lieutenant Colonel K. M. Perry, Commanding Officer of the 13th Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada), CEF.

Photograph Details

Subject

A photo of the commanding officers of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade: 13th Battalion, The Royal Highland Regiment of Canada (the Black Watch), CEF, (Montreal); 14th Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment, CEF (Montreal); 15th Battalion, 48th Highlanders of Canada, CEF, (Toronto); 16th Battalion, The Canadian Scottish, CEF, (Victoria) It has been said that considerable pressure was applied, in an attempt, to have the 14th Bn RMR, drop their trousers...... and adopt a Kilt and Highland gear

Subject Person or Organization

Worrall, Dick, Perry, Kenneth Meikle, Bent, Charles Edward, Peck, Cyrus Wesley

Made/Created

Date made

1914 - 1918