Ex-soldiers gather in Vancouver
This reunion included everything from the RCMP Musical Ride to an egg-and-spoon race for amputees. The grand prize, of a trip back to the battlefields, must have represented a considerable expense for the organizers, and one wonders if it was actually awarded.
Provincial Command, Great War Veterans' Association, As You Were: Official News of Reunion Week Encampment, Vancouver, B.C., June 30 to July 7, 1/3 (18 June 1923)
As You Were 1923.pdf
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newspaper, 8 pages, 20.9cm x 27.6cm
War, Memory and Popular Culture Archives - The University of Western Ontario - London, Ontario
First World War