Signals Platoon, Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, 10 February, 1935. Captain E. A. S. Chowne, MM commanded the platoon with CSM George Clapshew as the 2i/c. The Platoon won the Dominion Signallers Challenge Cup which was competed for by all militia infantry and cavalry units in Canada in 1934 and 1935. In the following years it was always very close to the top of the list of competitors. By 1937 C.S.M. George W. Clapshew, Sgt. I. D. Newberry and 33 other N.C.Os. and men were in the unit.