The Flags of Our Fighting Army: Including standards, guidons, colours and drum bannersJohnson, Stanley C. (Stanley Currie)
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The Flags of Our Fighting Army: Including standards, guidons, colours and drum banners
Johnson, Stanley C. (Stanley Currie)
Flags -- Great Britain
Colours presented by Junior Relief Club, of Uxbridge, Ont., on May 20th,
1916; presentation made by James Godfrey, K.C., of Toronto, on May 20th,
1916. Deposited in Westminster Abbey on Oct. 7th, 1916.
=117th Battalion=
Colours made in Montreal, and presented by the Eastern Township Board of
Trade, of Sherbrooke, May 29th, 1916.
=120th Battalion=
This Battalion has the colours of the 13th Royal Regiment of Hamilton,
Ont.
=123rd Battalion=
Was presented with colours of 10th Royal Grenadiers, its parent
regiment, on May 7th, 1916. Now deposited in Church of All Saints,
Witley, Surrey.
=124th Battalion=
Colours presented by Toronto Open Air Horse Parade Association, in
Toronto, July 1st, 1916. Now deposited in Witley Church, Surrey.
=125th Battalion=
Colours presented by Mrs. Cockshutt, wife of the Hon. Colonel of the
Battalion, at Brantford, Ont., May 17th, 1916, deposited in Parish
Church, Chart, Surrey, May 12th, 1917. They were carried in honour of
the Queen Mother in London on May 11th, 1917.
=127th Battalion=
Regimental colours of the 12th Regiment of the York Rangers; now
deposited in Trinity Church, Aurora, Ont.
=128th Battalion=
These colours were made by an invalid lady of Moose Jaw, Mrs. Eleanor
Lane; presented by the Lieut.-Governor of Saskatchewan, on May 1st,
1916, and for nearly a year took their prominent place on ceremonial
parades of the Battalion. Deposited in Bristol Cathedral, England, on
March 11th, 1917.
=130th Battalion=
Colours presented by Independent Order of the Daughters of the Empire,
Perth Chapter, Perth, Ont., on May 21st, 1915; deposited in St. James’
Church, Perth, Ont., on Sept. 10th, 1916.
=132nd Battalion=
Colours presented by Earl of Chatham, Chapter of the I.O.D.E. of
Chatham, N.B., on Aug. 1st, 1916; consecrated by Venerable Archdeacon
Forsyth, of Chatham; deposited in Westminster Abbey.
=133rd Battalion=
Colours given by Norfolk Branch, Daughters of the Empire; presented by
Sir John Hurdrie, Lieut.-Governor of Province of Ontario, July 7th,
1916; deposited in the County Council Chambers, Simcoe, Ont.
=135th Battalion=
Colours presented to Battalion by Dr. H. A. McCallam on June 27th, 1916;
brought to England, but later returned to Canada, and deposited in the
Anglican Church, Strathroy, Ont.
=136th Battalion=
Colours presented to Battalion by Col. J. L. Hughes, of Toronto, at Port
Hope, Ont., in July, 1916; deposited in St. Mark’s Church, Port Hope, on
Sept. 18th, 1916.
=137th Battalion=
Colours presented by Military Chapter of the I.O.D.E. on Aug. 12th,
1916; now deposited in Westminster Abbey.
=138th Battalion=
Colours made by an invalid lady in Edmonton, and presented by A. J.
Ewing, Esq., K.C., M.P.P., and Mrs. Ewing, of Edmonton, on July 1st,
1916. They are to be deposited in Edmonton.
=139th Battalion=
Colours presented by the citizens of the Town of Coburg, May 27th, 1916;
deposited in St. Peter’s Church, Coburg, Ont.
=142nd Battalion=
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