91st Battalion - Presentation of Colours at Canterbury Cathedral - Heritage Collections Elgin-St. Thomas

Scope and Content: Black and white photograph showing the presentation of colours at Canterbury Cathedral, England by the 91st Overseas Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1916. Published in the St. Thomas Times-Journal, April 11, 1950, with caption: "Members of the 91st Overseas Battalion of the First World War will recall this picture taken outside Canterbury Cathedral in England. It shows representatives of the Battalion, raised in Elgin County, arriving at the Cathedral, bearing the regimental colours, which were deposited in the Cathedral and remained there until the war's end, when they were brought back to Canada and placed, along with a stone from the Cathedral, in their present position in the chapel at Trinity Anglican Church, St. Thomas. Leading the party are Sergeant-Major W. Wakeling, Lieutenant Martinell McLachlin and Lieutenant Hugh C. Cameron. Others in the party include Colour Sergeant-Major Stevens and Colour Sergeant-Major McNaughton, Regimental Sergeant-Major Charles Watling, Lieutenant-Colonel W.J. Green, Major F.G. Stanbury, Captain W.F.L. Edwards, Major A.E. Medcalf, Captain D.E. Gerrard, Captain E.P. Cash, Captain George M. Baldwin, Captain Harry B. Madden, and Major George Stacey."