8th Canadian Reconnaissance Regiment, Homecoming Banquet (1945-12)

8th Canadian Reconnaissance Regiment, Homecoming Banquet (1945-12)

Archival item



2011.30.17
December 1945
Image of a Welcome Home banquet for the 8th Recce regiment at the Piccadilly restaurant in Swift Current. Many of the men were reservists who did not go overseas. Taken during postwar celebrations in December of 1945 when troops were returning home. The men are unidentified, but some of the people in the back of the room are Esther Brightwell, Isla Breeden, and Leona Breeden, also Reverend Unger Lewis.
Photographic Paper; Cardboard
"Ced Whelan" written on back
Communication Artefacts, Documentary Artifact, Print, Photographic