Captain John Edwards Leckie, DSO; Lieutenant Alexander Douglas Wilson and Lieutenant Colin Marshall at Richmond Rifle Range circa 1911 - 1912 Reference: Page 2, XIII H.S. Books "Early photos SH of C". The Seaforths are wearing greatcoats, glengarries and tartan trews. Behind the firing line are men in greatcoats and forage caps and a civilian in a fedora. John Edwards Leckie, "Jack," soldier, mining engineer, explorer was born at Acton-Vale, Québec on 19 February, 1872. He was educated at Bishops' College School, Lennoxville, and graduated from the Royal Military College at Kingston in 1893. Leckie served in the Boer War as a Lieutenant, commanding the West Kootenay Troop, Lord Strathcona's Horse (1899-1900), and as a Captain in Canadian Mounted Rifles (1900-1902). During World War I he served in France as a Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding the 16th Battalion. In 1919, as a Colonel, Leckie commanded the 2nd Reserve Brigade ("Malamute Force") on the Archangel-Murmansk Front. During World War II he was a cable (press) censor. As a civilian, Leckie practiced engineering in Nova Scotia and New Jersey before coming to Rossland, B.C., in 1897. He worked in the Kootenays in the mining business, in partnership with his brother, R.G.E. Leckie (later General Leckie). In 1910 he moved to Vancouver. He was engaged in exploration and speculation in Mexico, Venezuela, and in Africa, and in 1928 he helped to organize the mineral exploration survey into Hudson's Bay Territory. In 1932-1933 he organized an expedition to Cocos Island to hunt for buried treasure. On his return to Vancouver he acted as a mining consultant. Made a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1928, he received the DSO and the French Croix de Guerre, among other decorations.J.E. Leckie died in 1950 at Port Hope, Ontario. Lt Alexander Douglas (A.D.) Wilson was born in 1880. He was in the 72nd Regiment in 1911 and originally served in E Company, then H Company (25 June, 1912) and then F Company (16 April, 1913) before serving in the 72nd Battalion, CEF in the Great War where he was awarded the D.S.O. and later commanded the Seaforths from 1924-28.. Lieutenant Colin Marshall was also an original founding officer. He joined the 16th Battalion, CEF in September 1914 and served with them for the duration of the War.