Signing the Officers Mess Guest Book

Photograph

Royal Montreal Regiment Museum

Name/Title

Signing the Officers Mess Guest Book

Entry/Object ID

2017x.06.07

Description

Field Marshal Viscount William Slim in dinner jacket is signing the Officers' Mess guest book while the Regiment's 2/ic Major Stan Wood and the Commanding Officer Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lloyd-Craig look on. Major General Frank Fleury can be seen in the background.

Photograph Details

Subject Person or Organization

Wood, Stanley, Fleury, Frank James, Lloyd-Craig, Peter, Slim, William Joseph, 1st Viscount Slim

Subject Place

* Untyped Subject Place

Royal Montreal Regiment Armoury, Westmount

State/Province

Quebec

Country

Canada

Continent

North America

Made/Created

Date made

Apr 20, 1963

Notes

Date: April 20, 1963 Material(s): Paper;Ink

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Notes

Verso: "RMR Officers Mess/20 March 1963/ Major S Wood/ Maj Gen F Fleury/ Field Marshal Viscount Slim/ Lt Col P Lloyd- Craig"

Lexicon

Search Terms

William Joseph Slim

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Photograph

Class

Communication Artifacts

Research Notes

Notes

Field Marshal Viscount Slim, a British Officer active during the First and Second World Wars. He served as 13th Governor-General of Australia, 1952-1959. Field Marshal Viscount Slim held the appointment of "Colonel of the Regiment" of The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales' Own) from 1947 to 1956. The West Yorkshire Regiment (14th Foot) traces it's history back to it's founding in 1685. In 1920 The King gave approval for the alliance of The West Yorkshire Regiment with The Royal Montreal Regiment, which had served with distinction as the 14th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, in the First World War. Field Marshal Slim was visiting Montreal on April 20th, 1963 as a non-executive director of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. of Britain and The Royal Montreal Regiment took the occasion to entertain him at a formal Mess Dinner in his honour held on the Armoury floor.