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The Loyal Edmonton Regiment Military Museum is pleased to host this special presentation.
Our series of articles on Regimental Commanding Officers continues with Lieutenant Colonel Kenny Kinnaird who had service with the 49th Battalion during the First World War and who commanded the 2nd Battalion, The Edmonton Regiment during 1945 and 1946.
Lieutenant Colonel Raymond Walter Hale, M.C., E.D.
Our series of articles on Regimental Commanding Officers continues with Lieutenant Colonel Walter Hale who served with the 49th Battalion during the First World War and who commanded the newly formed 2nd Battalion, The Edmonton Regiment/The Loyal Edmonton Regiment, in Edmonton, from 1940 to 1945.
Our series of articles on Regimental Commanding Officers continues with Brigadier Robert Archibald Bradburn who was Commanding Officer from March 1954 to April of 1958.
Colonel James Riley Stone, CM, DSO (and Two Bars), MC, CD
Our series of articles on Regimental Commanding Officers continues with the thirteenth CO of the 1st Battalion, The Loyal Edmonton Regiment, Colonel James Riley Stone, CM, DSO (and Two Bars), MC, CD. During the Second World War he rose from the rank of private to Lieutenant Colonel and later commanded the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia‚' Light Infantry in Korea.
Our series of articles on Regimental Commanding Officers continues with Lieutenant Colonel James Gerald Rowlatt who was Commanding Officer from January 1953 to March 1954.
Lieutenant Colonel William Taylor Cromb, Jr., DSO, ED
Our series of articles on Regimental Commanding Officers continues with the fourteenth CO of the 1st Battalion, The Loyal Edmonton Regiment, Lt. Col. William Taylor Cromb, Jr., DSO, ED. During the Second World War he was with the 1st Battalion in England, Sicily and Italy, and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada and the Lincoln and Welland Regiment in France and Holland. He returned to command the 1st Battalion at the end of the war.
Our series of articles on Regimental Commanding Officers continues with Lieutenant Colonel Alan Fraser Macdonald who had service with The Loyal Edmonton Regiment during the war and was Commanding Officer from 1950 to 1953.
This article, written by his granddaughter in 1949, tells something of the death of Pte. Charles Alexander Purkiss and his wife‚' determination to learn more of her husband‚' fate.
