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.
