72nd Regiment, Seaforth Highlanders of Canada officers taken at the time of the 1913 Annual Inspection by General Colin Mackenzie in front of the Beatty Street Drill Hall, Vancouver. Group portrait showing (front row): Lieutenant C. Tweedale, Major Hart-McHarg, Lieutenant Colonel J.A. Macdonnell, Colonel A. Roy, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Gilmour Edwards Leckie, Captain F.W.L. Moore, Captain Gilbert Godson-Godson; (middle row): Captain Ralph Farrar Markham, Captain Cecil Mack Merritt, Captain E.W. Hamber, Captain John Arthur Clark, Captain E.M. Picton-Ward, Major John Tait, Major H.S. Tobin, Lieutenant A.L.G. Reid, Captain John Edwards Leckie, DSO, Captain Guy H. Kirkpatrick, Captain William Rae, Captain Hamilton Maxwell Fleming; (back row): Lieutenant Richard Bell-Irving, Lieutenant R.H. Tupper, Lieutenant Williams, Lieutenant Roderick Ogle Bell-Irving, Lieutenant John Alexander Hope, Lieutenant Walter F. Kemp, Lieutenant S.H. Goodhall, Lieutenant Gavin Hardwick Davis, Captain Colin John Marshall, Lieutenant Alex D. Wilson, Lieutenant F.M. Oliphant. From the Regimental History, pages 10 and 11: On June 23rd, 1913, the regiment was inspected by General Colin Mackenzie, a former C. O. of the Imperial Seaforth Highlanders. From June 26th till July 1st, the regiment was in training, with other regiments, at Sydney, Vancouver Island. During this period they were inspected by Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton. " Major-General Sir Colin John Mackenzie KCB (26 November 1861 – 7 July 1956) was a British soldier and Chief of the General Staff, the head of the Canadian Army, from 1910 until 1913. From 1910 to 1913, he was Chief of the General Staff, Canada. His departure from that post was caused in part by a disagreement between Mackenzie and Sam Hughes, the Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence, as to (among other things) the merits of the Ross rifle. Mackenzie subsequently regarded himself as vindicated by the Ross rifle's unsuitability for combat conditions on the Western Front. VANCOUVER ARCHIVES ITEM DETAILS PAGES ATTACHED