Manual Slideshow of Provost on Operational Deployments.
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Lance Corporals Hunter and Doug Clements UNFICYP Military Police Detachment, Cyprus.
Sgt (retired MWO) Don Tresham is shown standing in the desert while on mobile patrol
of the Gaza Strip in Palestine in 1964.
Lt (retired Captain) Nat Smith of the C Pro C while serving with the UN in Gaza Strip - 1964:
Warrant Officer (retired) Larry MacDonald submitted the above photo of himself while serving with the UNEF in Egypt in 1974.
Larry was an acting sergeant at the time.
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In the above photo, former member of the Canadian Provost Corps, Corporal Sam Moses, is shown with three of his United Nations
Emergency Force (UNEF) Military Police colleagues from other participating nations in Egypt in 1964. From left to right are:
Pte Green (Belgium), Sgt Horg (Norway), Cpl Sam Moses (Canada) and Lance Corporal Singh (India).
Members of 3RReR Provost Section in Cyprus - 1968/69 conducting a Traffic Post (TP) in their area of responsibility.
The above photo depicts from left to right: former Canadian Provost Corps members - Corporals Unidentified, Art Luard, Howie Mason and Ed Patterson,
Shown in the above photo is former member of the Canadian Provost Corps, Art Luard in Cyprus during the period 1968/69.
The above photo depicts LCpl W.H. Harris, a member of the Canadian Provost Corps manning a Traffic Post (TP) during WWII.
Provost On Mounted Patrol in Germany following the end of WWII.
Belgium refugees are shown being assisted by Canadian troops while crossing the Albert Canal Bridge en route home as the Nazi forces were
being driven out by the allied forces.
Photo of LCpl Bill Cooksey, C Pro C during WWII.
In the above photo the Prime Minister of Canada, Louis St Lauant, is saying farewell to Canadian soldiers embarking
for Korea in the early fifties
Photo of a Canadian soldier of D Coy PPCLI in Korea.
Canadian soldiers engaged in the Korea War and on leave in Japan are shown in the adjacent photo playing hockey against a local Japanesse
team in 1952. This was probably history in the making, the Japanesse playing hockey against a Canadian Army team.
LCol James (Big Jim) Stone, Commanding Officer of The 2nd Patricias, is shown in the adjacent photo presenting his unit's team with the Maj Gosselin
Trophy in Korea 1 July 1951 (Dominion Day). It was a inter-unit meet between Brigade units. Dennis Moore, who is in the photo, stated that during the Brigade
Sports Day the 2PPCLI team was the overall winning team
Unidentified member of the Canadian Provost Corps and his Canine Patrol Dog on duty in Seattle, Washington as Canadian troops,
members of No. 3 Transport Company (RCASC), form up to board the ship en route to the Korea as part of the United Nations
Commonwealth Division deployed to counter North Korean aggression towards South Korea in 1951.
LCpl Axel Nickolson (left) is shown with two unidentified Commonwealth Military Police buddies (a Canadian Provost and a British
Royal Military Policeman) in Korea in 1953/54. The photo was taken at the East end of Pin Tail
Bridge which spanned the Imjim River in South Korea.
An unidentified member of the Canadian Provost Corps (left) being assisted by a South Korean interpreter in interrogating a POW in South Korea in 1952
Brigadere W.A. B. Anderson, Commander 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade, Germany on the 26 May 1955, is shown addressing
Lance Corporal Don Treasham (retired Maj) from Hamilton, Ontario of 4 Provost Platoon, on the occasion of the annual
General Officer Commanding's (GOC's) Inspection of the unit.
LCpl Lester Landstra on the left in the above photo while a member of the Canadian Essex Scottish Regiment in 1942 at
Middleton On Sea, near Sussex, England
LCpl Lester Landstra on the left and Staff Sergeant Jim Strong, both members of the C pro C at the Chateau Donell in Loos, France
on the 25 Sept in 1944.
Pte Bernard Mudge, C Pro C (right) and an unidentified colleague in Southern France during WWII in 1945.
The house in Apeldoorn, Holland where members of a Provost Company were accomodated during WWII -1945.
Pte Mudge of the C Pro C on the extreme right relaxing with his Provost colleagues in Apeldoorn, Holland in Jul 1945 during WWII.