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From: Forrest Anderson <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] R.C.?.A
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 13:14:33 +0100
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On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 19:52:42 +0100, "roger&janis"
<> wrote:

>George James Cuckow on his Attestation Papers put down his previous army service as
>'C' Btry? R.C.? A , Can anyone throw a little light on the initials for me.

The attestation paper can be seen at
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/gat1/066436a.gif and as others have
suggested, it looks like RCHA to me.

To add strength to that argument, there is a "Certificate of Magistrate"
at the bottom of that page, and it can be seen that recruit took his oath
at Kingston.

Kingston, Ontario, was the headquarters of the Royal Canadian Horse
Artillery Brigade, which was made up of A, B and C Batteries.

http://www.mts.net/~1rchais/rcha.html gives the history of the RCHA
Brigade, including a mention of Kingston, and there is a page which gives
brief details of what C Battery did in the Great War.

Forrest


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