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This cut runs 80 seconds. It joins wartime archival pictures and later photographs. They are not a continuous record, and they do not show a present deployment. Added pipe music plays with the pictures. This soundtrack was heard and approved on 7 November 2026 at 3:05 PM EST.

Pictures in this cut

  1. Workers on a military vehicle assembly line, Ford, Windsor, March 1941. National Film Board of Canada. Photothèque / Library and Archives Canada (MIKAN 3195715). Item record.
  2. Essex Scottish soldiers after the Dieppe raid, England, 23 August 1942. The people are not identified. This is not a Windsor homecoming. Capt. W.G. Abel / Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-189474. Item record.
  3. Essex Scottish band, Groningen, Netherlands, April 1945. The archive shot list dates the item 17 April 1945. Only the picture excerpt is used. The original sound of that footage is not included. Bevrijding stad Groningen, Polygoon-Profilti / Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, via Open Beelden. Item record. The archive marks that item with the Public Domain Mark. That mark is the archive's statement about the excerpt. It does not license this whole montage. The band in the picture is not the source of the pipe music.
  4. Frederick A. Tilston at his Victoria Cross investiture, Buckingham Palace, 22 June 1945. This is not a Windsor parade. Lieut. Arthur L. Cole / Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-189620. Item record.
  5. HMCS Harry DeWolf during Operation Nanook, Atlantic, 29 August 2023. This is Canadian naval context, not Windsor. U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Alex Fairbanks, DVIDS 7997329. Item record. DVIDS commercial-use terms. The appearance of U.S. Department of War (DoW) visual information does not imply or constitute DoW endorsement.
  6. Three photographs at the Windsor waterfront, 30 October 2024: HMCS Harry DeWolf, hull number 430, with the Detroit skyline. Kyle L. Stewart / Windsor News. On 7 November 2026 at 2:51 PM EST, Kyle approved cropping, editing, and inclusion of these photographs in this film, and their use on the ad-supported Windsor War Chest site worldwide, with that credit. He retains the copyright. No Creative Commons licence and no general public sublicence are granted.

Music

“David (Scotland) the Brave on Scottish Bagpipes,” RAPALJE Celtic Folk Music, published 7 February 2018. The tune is the traditional “Scotland the Brave.” The performance, recording, and arrangement are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. Source recording. Licence terms.

This cut uses the first 80 seconds of that recording. The level is reduced by 7.02 dB, with a 3-second fade in and a 6-second fade out, and the sound is synchronized to the pictures. This is not a recording by the Essex Scottish, and it is not the original sound of the Groningen footage. The band in that picture and this pipe music are different sources. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 applies to the music source, not to the whole film and not to Kyle’s photographs. No endorsement by RAPALJE is implied.

Still photographs were fitted to the frame without stretching. No military endorsement is implied.