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Improvised Explosive Devices
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CANADA, 1920 - 1929
CANADA, 1920 - 1929
Lt Col Blair, Col T.S. Tobin, Mr Malkin and BGen Clark, Cambie Gds, 25 Aug 1929.
Lt Col "Bull's Eye" Blair and RSM Perry, 25 August 1929. RSM Perry was also a King's Rifleman Prize winner. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Mills Blair became the toast of Canada when he took the Kings Prize and the Grand Aggregate awards at the British Empire rifle matches at the Bisley Rifle Range in 1929. This was a rare achievement, but not the first time a Canadian had done so. (The first Canadian winner of a Bisley King's Prize and Grand Aggregate Score was Rifleman Sam Perry, 6th Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles in 1904.) Blair was the first commanding officer of a regiment to win either prize.
The parade is for Lt. Col. Robert Mills Blair, Commanding Officer, Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, upon winning the King's Prize at Bisley, England for being the top rifleman in the British Empire, 25 August, 1929.
From the Regimental History, page 30:
"Lt-Col. R. M. Blair made history at Bisley by being the first man in seventy years to win both the King's Prize and the Grand Aggregate. The regiment, the city, indeed all Canadians were tremendously proud of his accomplishment and on his return in August he was given a huge welcome. Later that day a civic banquet was given in his honour followed by a dance given by the regiment. Special permission was given for the free issue to the Seaforth Officers' Mess of the rifle with which he won the Bisley match, and the new rifle range was named in his honour the following year. It was a glorious welcome home for a greatly admired officer."
This photo is from the Scrapbook entitled "Historical Record of the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada". It includes photos from 1912 to the 1950s. The author is unknown at this time.

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