Portrait - Second Lieutenant Ken P. Farmer

Photograph

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Royal Montreal Regiment Museum

Name/Title

Portrait - Second Lieutenant Ken P. Farmer

Entry/Object ID

2016x.52.31

Description

A black and white portrait of 2nd Lieutenant Kenneth P. Farmer wearing his Service Dress Uniform. He later became a Major with the 32nd Reconnaissance Regiment (RMR).

Photograph Details

Subject Person or Organization

Farmer, Kenneth Pentin

Subject Place

* Untyped Subject Place

Royal Montreal Regiment Armoury, Westmount

State/Province

Quebec

Country

Canada

Continent

North America

Made/Created

Date made

1939

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Notes

Graduated from McGill University, Kenneth P. Farmer served with The Royal Montreal Regiment and later the Manitoba Dragoons until May 1945. He took part in the Liberation of the Netherlands. He was an athletic legend, especially when it came to hockey. In 1936, he was part of the Canadian delegation to represent Canada in the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch, Germany where Canadian Olympic Hockey won the silver medal.