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Canada Militia (1837 Rebellion) Neil MacGregor was in the cutting
out party for the rebel ship Caroline. |
 | Ontario Rifles (1870 Northwest Rebellion) (Pte. MacGregor - son of
Neil) |
 | Winnipeg Field Battery (1885 Northwest Rebellion) (Pte. MacGregor
- another son of Neil) |
 | Queen's Own Rifles (1885 Northwest Rebellion) (Paymaster Heakes) |
 | 19th. Lincoln Regiment/19th. St. Catharines Regt./Lincoln & Welland
Regiment (family regiment) http://bcoy1cpb.pacdat.net/lincoln_&_welland_regt.htm |
 | McGill Siege Battery (8" Howitzers in WWI) (Sgt. Harold Harty
Heakes. |
 | Royal Flying Corps (Capt. William Arnott Stevens and Francis Vernon
Heakes) |
 | Royal Air Force Canada (Capt. W. A. Stevens) |
 | Canadian Air Force (F. V. Heakes) |
 | Royal Canadian Air Force (Air Vice Marshall Francis Vernon Heakes;
Dorothy Heakes (Vernon's daughter); Jack McQueen (Dorothy's husband) |
 | W Force - Newfoundland (Lieut. A.H. Stevens. ADC to GOC General
Page) |
 | Essex Scottish Regiment (father Lieut. A. H. Stevens served in it in 1943 overseas) |
 | No. 4 Commando (father Lieut. A.H. Stevens was attached to in it overseas in 1943) |
 | HMCS Trail (Corvette) Uncle Alf Heakes was a wireless operator on
board her in the North Atlantic) |
 | South Alberta Light Horse (?) Capt Bob Inlgis |
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Winter exercises: Ex-Lemming; Ex.
Eskimo; Exercise Musk-Ox; Capt Bob Inglis commanded snowmobile #8.
Later liaison officer to USMC
in arctic. |
 | 1st Hussars (?) - George Inglis (commanded Duplex Drive
Sherman tank swam it ashore at D-Day Normandy, went to end of war) |
 | Canadian Army Medical Corps (WWI - Mary McKay; Gordon McKay
(KIA) |
 | RCEME (?) - Bill O'Laughlin |
 | Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps - WWII Major Eleanor Ely &
Post-war - Lt. Col. Dr. A.H. Stevens, Captain Dr. Estelle Stevens) |
 | HMCS Chippawa Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Ordinary Seaman Colin Stevens;
Ordinary Seaman David Stevens) |
 | HMCS Gatineau (Ordinary Seaman Colin Stevens) (I served on board
this Destroyer Escort during cruise from Halifax to Victoria,
BC via Bermuda [where I listened to the live radio broadcast of Neil
Armstrong walking on the moon), Panama, Manzanillo, Accapulco, San Diego. |
 | Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada (Officer Cadet and 2/Lt) (I served in it 1969-70) |
 | Seaforth Highlanders of Canada (2/Lt to Captain) (I served in it 1970-1975; 1977) http://bcoy1cpb.pacdat.net/seaforth_highlanders.htm |
 | Canadian Scottish (Princess Mary's) Regiment (Captain) (I served in it) |
 | Harbord Cadet Corps Toronto (Cadet Lieut. Harold Harty
Heakes) 1912 |
 | Lincoln & Welland Cadets - Arnott Hume Stevens - drummer boy) (late
1930s) |
 | Royal Canadian Air Cadets 18 Lions Sqn. (LAC) (Dartmouth, NS) and 583 Coronation
Sqn. (Captain Colin Stevens, Sgt. Suzie Stevens, Cpl. Neil Stevens) (Maple Ridge, BC) |
 | St. Thomas Ontario (Bob Inglis - drummer boy) (1930s) |
 | 15 Field Regt. RCA Cadets - Sgt. Beth Reid) (1970s) |
 | Special Operations, Executive (Twelve Force; Force 136; Force 133; F Section;
Camp X/Project J/25-1-1; British Security Co-ordination etc.) |
 | 1 Canadian Parachute Battalion http://bcoy1cpb.pacdat.net/history.htm
Pte. Cliff Douglas; Lieut. Peter Insole; etc. |
 | First Special Service Force (The Devil's Brigade) (Guy d'Artois
etc.) |
 | Canadian Airborne Regiment |
 | MI-9 (Lucien Dumais & Ray Labrosse) |
 | Special Air Service (Keith McClellan) |
 | Popski's Private Army (Capt. Campbell) |
 | Canadian Special Air Service Company (CO of the Sqn Guy d'Artois;
Bob Blackwell) |
 | RCN |
 | RCAF (Squadron Leader 'Hap' Kennedy) |
 | Luftwaffe (General Adolf Galland - Battle of Britain, Commander of
German fighter planes by end of WWII. Friend of my father's.) |
 | Royal Naval Air Service - Raymond Collishaw (I corresponded with
him) 60 victories in WWI. |
 | Belgian SAS Company (5 SAS) - WWII Commanding Officer Eddie
Blondeel (I corresponded with him). He passed away in 2001 I believe. |