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Worn clothing is separate from equipment. Four local photographs are the same files already used in the chronology. Four others are general context and are not Windsor units or Windsor ships. Medical kit and equipment after 1945 are not in this set.
Local
Period photograph of clothing being worn
Maj. Frederick A. Tilston, Essex Scottish Regiment, at the investiture where he received the Victoria Cross, Buckingham Palace, 22 June 1945. Tam, kilt, and sporran are visible. The tartan is not identified.
Lieut. Arthur L. Cole / Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-189620 Source
Local
Period photograph of clothing being worn
Unidentified infantrymen of the Essex Scottish Regiment who took part in the Dieppe raid, after their return to England, 23 August 1942.
Capt. W.G. Abel / Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-189474 Source
General context
Period photograph
Pte H.E. Goddard of The Perth Regiment carries a Bren gun, wearing a steel helmet and webbing, north of Arnhem, Netherlands, 15 April 1945. The name is taken from the Library and Archives Canada record, not from a conflicting Commons title.
Capt. Jack H. Smith / Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-166370 Source
Local
Period photograph of equipment in production
Workers on a military vehicle assembly line, Ford Motor Company of Canada, Windsor, March 1941.
National Film Board of Canada. Photothèque / Library and Archives Canada (MIKAN 3195715) Source
Local
Period photograph of equipment under test
A Universal Carrier is driven up a test slope at the Ford Motor Company of Canada, Windsor, March 1941.
National Film Board of Canada. Photothèque / Library and Archives Canada (MIKAN 3195684) Source
General context
Photograph of a museum object, not a picture of it in use
A Canadian-made Wireless Set No. 19 Mk II, a Second World War vehicle radio, in the National Liberation Museum 1944-1945, Netherlands.
RenseNBM, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Licence Adaptations of this photograph stay under the same licence. Source
Context Example
A Canadian-designed Ram tank at Camp Borden, Ontario. Library and Archives Canada dates the photograph ca. 1943-1965, not one year. Rams were built by Montreal Locomotive Works, not in Windsor.
Canada. Department of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada Source
Context Example
Fleet Finch II, RCAF 4510, is the trainer type flown at No. 7 Elementary Flying Training School in Windsor from 1940 to 1944. This airframe served at London, Ontario, and Cap-de-la-Madeleine, not at Windsor, and is preserved at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. Aeroprints.com photographed it there on 10 May 2010.
Photo: Aeroprints.com, CC BY-SA 3.0 Licence Adaptations of this photograph stay under the same licence. Source
General context
Period photograph
Seaman Gunner R.E. Walsh chops ice from the superstructure of the corvette HMCS Lunenburg at Halifax, January 1942.
Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-105688 Source
General context
Period photograph
"Soup's on" aboard the corvette HMCS Agassiz, February 1941. The men are not named.
Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-139897 Source
Local
Kyle L. Stewart / Windsor News. The photographer confirmed on 7 Nov 2026 that he took these photographs and approved their use.
The photographer confirmed these four photographs were taken on 30 October 2024. The City of Windsor published City of Windsor Welcomes HMCS Harry DeWolf at Dieppe Gardens. That notice is context for the visit. It is not the source of the date.
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