Manual slideshow of Service Prisons and Detention Barracks.

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Lecturing in a FDB
No. 1 Field Detention Barracks, Soest, Germany - 1964: Canadian Provost Corps "Disciplinarian", Sgt (retired CWO) George W. Elliott is shown lecturing service detainees in First Aid.
Closing out celebrations for N0.1 FDB
Photograph taken at the official closing out dinner for No. 1 FDB are: left to right, rear row - Sgt Tony Cannons, Sgt Lee Leighburg, Sgt Hughes, Sgt Vic Lesyshen, Sgt Pete Alexander, Cpl (retired MWO) Bill Hendrickson (RCASC Chief Cook), Sgt Tiny Burnett, Sgt Jim Wheeler, unidentified, unidentified and Sgt Bill Nagy. Front row - Cpl Tom Gullon, Sgt Pete Kline, Lt Robert (Bob) Morey, CWO Reg Crawford, Capt Roy Parker, MWO Red Forrester, unidentified and unidentified.
SDB, Eastern Passage, NS - 1948.
The staff of the Service Detention Barracks, Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia in 1948.
PM, Col Brady inspecting the staff of a SDB facility.
The staff of a SDB is being inspected by Col. A. L. Brady (left), Provost Marshall (Army), 1959-61. Shown in the top photo, second on the right, is the late Sergeant George Bannister.
Col. A. L. Brady, Provost Marshall (Army), 1959-61
Col. A. L. Brady, Provost Marshall (Army), 1959-61 is shown addressing the Staff of a SDB.
Photo of No. 12 Dentention Barracks in Camp Borden.
NO. 12 Military Detention Barracks, Camp Borden, ON
Photo of Field Dentention Barracks in Wainwright, AB - 1964.
Field Detention Barracks in Wainwright, AB - 1964
Commandant No.1 FDB.
Capt JC Wallis, Comdt of a No.1 Field Detention Barracks in Soest, Germany in the early sixties.
Commandant, Lt Slim Harrion.
Former member of the Canadian Provost Corps, Lt Slim Harrison, was commissioned from the ranks while serving at No.1 Field Detention Barracks in Soest, Germany in the early sixties.
Members Of The Saff of No.1 SDB, Germany - 1951.
Members of the staff if No.1 SDB at Soest, Germany - 1953, all of whom are Maritimers, from left to right are: Sgt Art Mackenzie (Halifax, NS), Captain Ray Lawlor (Charlottetown, PEI and Halifax, NS), WO1 Jim Holland (Amherst,NS) and Sgt Frank Ames (Sydney Mines, NS).
Photo of a a Disciplinarin Gp 2 Course - 1955.
(L-R) front row are: Cpl Lafontaine, Bob Miller, CSM Mays, Unidentified, LCol Jack Platt (Comdt, C Pro C School), Unidentified, SSgt Jim Halcrow, Sgt Bert Hebert, and Unidentified. 2nd and 3rd on the left - 2nd row: Sgt Les Wells and Sgt George Bannister, and 6th on the left - rear row, Sgt Bud Hanlon.
Photo of No. 10 Dentention Barracks, Calgary.
NO. 10 Service Detention Barracks, Calgary, AB.
No. 25 Field Dentention Barracks in Korea in 1952.
NO. 25 Field Detention Barracks, Korea, 1952.
Photo of Cpl Don Mackey at No. 27 FDB in Hanover, Germany - early fifties.
Corporal (Retired Sgt) Don Mackey is standing in front of the sign for NO. 27 Field Detention Barracks, Hanover, Germany - 1952.
Photo of SDB Staff in Edmonton in the mid-fifties.
Members of the Service Detention Staff at Edmonton, Alberta in the mid-fifties posed for a group photo with their Area Provost Marshal, Maj JJ (Jack) Platt, fifth from the left in the front row, during a vist with C Pro C units in that area.
C Pro C Disciplinarian Gp 3 course photo - 1958.
Former member of the C Pro C, Jim White (retired MWO) seated on the far left, front row. Next to him is Ssgt Jim Halcrow, Maj Amirault, the late Col A. Ritchie, then Comdt, Canadian Provost Corps School, Maj Treleaven, Captain Hooper, and Sgt Bert Hebert. Back row: (l - r) Sgt Moore, (unidentified), WOII (Sgt-Maj) Hodges, 3rd from the left, next to him is Sgt Wes Legrowe, retired WO, Sgt Glen Beavis, is 3rd from the right and on the extreme right is WO 1 (RSM) Chuck Rollins. Remainder are unidentified.

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