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Major Matthews collection Vancouver (B.C.) Armed Forces With digital objects
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[Annual inspection of the 6th Regiment, The Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles on the lawn of 1190 (West) 8th Avenue]

Photograph shows the house at 1174 Ninth Avenue [Broadway]. Group portrait showing: Captain J. Reynolds Tite, Captain W. Hart-McHarg, Lieutenant A. Rowan, Lieutenant Nelson Dunn, Major F.W. Boultbee, Lieutenant G.A. Boult, Lieutenant Colonel J.C. Whyte, Sergeant Major A.C. Bundy, Lieutenant C.B. Worsnop, Captain C. Gardner Johnson, Captain Johnson, , Lieutenant R. Brittain, Major Alex Henderson, , Belfast Courtney, F. Highfield, Sergeant F. Kennedy, J.G. Holmes (seated), Mr. Akroyd, Mr. Stuart, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Tait, B. Highfield and others

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Oblique view showing the R.C.A.F. Jericho Air Station, the Jericho Golf Course, Locarno Beach, a boathouse, the Canadian Life Saving Association building and the houses at the foot of Imperial (Discovery) Street

[Demonstration of an assault landing by an LCM (landing craft, mechanized) at Kitsilano Beach during the Diamond Jubilee]

Item is a photograph. Typewritten notes with the photograph read: " ASSAULT LANDING - A beach assault landing such as took place in the various theaters of war will be demonstrated when these same LCM's will make an opposed assault on Kitsilano Beach at 4PM the 7th of July. Personnel of all units of Greater Vancouver will take part in demonstration as well as in the other Diamond Jubilee events depicted by the Army: the Inagural [sic] Parade 1st July, The huge Services Day Parade 7th July, the gigantic display at Seaforth Armouries 1st to 13th July, and the army's part in the colourful Pageant at Brockton Point Oval 1st to 13th July."

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