2001.9.2
Description
- Media Type / Médias
- Image
- Item Type / Type d'élément
- Images, Electronic
- Description / Description
- - beret
- Canadian army issue; green wool with green leather edge
- piece of red felt and brass Royal Canadian Artillery pin pinned to front
- stamped in blue in interior, in part: "BASQUE BERET/7-1945/Dor----Knitting Mills/LIMITED/TORONTO"
- Raymond Harry Lamonte enlisted in the Canadian Army on August 23, 1943. He served in the 2nd Echelon - Royal Canadian Artillery and saw duty in Normandy, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. He sailed to England and home again on the "Ile de France." Ray volunteered to serve in the Pacific and returned home on leave, the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima before his leave ended so he never went to serve in the Pacific.
Chatham Kent Museum
Out in the Open exhibition
VS 153 - Date of Publication
- 2018
- Collection
- Chatham Kent Museum
- Copyright Statement / Déclaration de droit d'auteur
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Location of Original / Emplacement de l'original
- Chatham Kent Museum
Out in the Open exhibition
VS 153 - Terms of Use / Conditions d'utilisation
- Copies are provided for research and private study only. Permission to use images in any other way including, but not limited to, publication, exhibition, film, video or TV broadcast, or on any CD or website, must be obtained in writing from an authorized representative of the Chatham-Kent Museum prior to use. This applies to low-resolution copies downloaded from this site at no cost and to high resolution copies.
- Contact / Contacter
- Chatham-Kent MuseumEmail:ckcccmuseum@chatham-kent.ca
Website:
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Chatham, ON N7M 4L4
519-360-1998
