Senior officers 25th anniversary dinner Vimy Officers Mess October 1945

Senior officers attending a 25th anniversary dinner at the Vimy Officers’ Mess in October 1945 (25th Anniversary taking 1920 as the founding date of the RCCS, when LCol Forde recruited 5 officers and 14 NCOs to begin the Corps).

Front row (left to right): LCol C. S. Bate, RCDS; Brig J. E. Genet, CBE, MC; former CSO, 1 Cdn Army; MGen A. E. Potts, CBE, ED, DOC MD 2; Col W.L. Laurie, D Sigs; Col F.G. Malloch, MC, VD, former Comdt CSTC.

Rear row (left to right): LCol G.A. McClellan, ED, G 1, D Sigs; LCol James, A Corps Sigs; LCol H. B. Dean, ED, former G 1, 1 Army Sigs, Col E. Forde, DSO, OBE, VD; LCol C. Shergold, MC, DCM; LCol G. W. Smart, RCCS; LCol W. P. Shirreff, OBE, Comdt CSTC.

Credit: Semaphore to Satellite, Chapter 9.