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Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2002.001.0312 |
Title |
D Company The RCR Senior Basketball Team St. Johns, Que. |
Description |
A black and white photographic print of the D Company Senior Basketball Team from 1937-1938. The photo was taken while D Company was stationed at Fort St. Jean in Quebec. The print is surrounded by a grey cardboard mat or frame with the title " "D" Company --- The Royal Canadian Regiment. / Senior Basketball Team / St. Johns, Que." across the top and the names and positions of the men in the photo along the bottom. The frame has a thick black border around the edge of the photo print, with silver decorative accents in the middle of each line and on each corner. The photo depicts a group of 12 men positioned with 7 standing in the back row and 5 seated in the front row. All of the men wear light-coloured basketball singlets with "D RCR" on the centre of the chest except for 2 men in the middle of the front row (Major Campbell and Sjt. Bingham, Manager) who wear suits. On the floor in front of Major Campbell, seated in the very middle of the front row, are two trophies, presumed to be the St. Johns Senior League Cup, and the St. Johns Association Cup. In front of the trophies there is a basketball with the dates "1937-8" written in white. The text beneath the photo reads: Back row - left to right: L/Cpl. D. Cameron (L.G.); Pte. R.S. Richards (R.G.); L/Cpl. T.W.R. Brier (L.F.); L/Cpl. F.T. Forgrave (Centre); Pte. J.R. Marinier, (R.F.); Pte. R.G. Prettie, (Centre); Pte. P.W.G. Sutherland, (L.F.) Front row - left to right: Pte. R.M. Smith (L.G.); Sjt. J.H. Wilkinson, (R.G.) Capt.; Major A.H.C. Campbell, O.C.; Sjt. P.R. Bingham, Manager; C.S.M. (W.O.II) A.C. McKenzie (R.F.) Awarded Perpetual Possession St. Johns Senior League Cup, Winners 1933 to 1938 Winners St. Johns Association Cup. |
Date |
C.1930s |