A Seaforth Officer (possibly Colonel Thomas Leslie) with naval officers and a seaman on a ship, 1930s. The ship is possibly the HMCS Vancouver or the HMS Colombo in the Georgia Strait. From the Regimental History pages 27-28: "Possibly the most interesting of a series of camps occurred in 1929, and came about as a result of a study of the Gallipoli campaign made by Col. G. R. Pearkes, VC, DSO, MC, then G.S.O. I on the staff of Military District XI. Pearkes, who was later to have the regiment under his command in the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade, had become interested in the Gallipoli campaign when studying the military history of the Great War, and with the consent of the D.O.C., he went to considerable trouble to arrange a combined operations exercise as part of the local militia's summer training. Ships from the Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy were to take part, as well as a small body of Royal Marines. On June 11th Pearkes met with the officers of the 23rd Infantry Brigade at the Beatty Street Armoury and there outlined the plan and gave a talk on the loading and unloading of troops into boats.48 On June 24th detailed administrative and operation orders were issued to the units from V ancouver and Victoria which would be taking part in the landings at Maple Bay near Duncan on Vancouver Island. Five days later, early on Saturday morning, the regiment embarked on H.M.C.S. Vancouver and, together with details from the 15th Field Brigade, R.C.A., and the 11th Divisional Signals, sailed across the Strait and landed "in the face of a hostile force'' on the beach. On the following day the role was reversed. The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada and the Canadian Scottish Regiment acted as the defending force against an attack made by the other units of the 23rd Infantry Brigade and a naval detachment of sailors and Royal Marines. It is interesting to note that of the five militia regiments taking part in this combined operations scheme, it was the two Highland regiments which were to be chosen for assault landings in the war. For three more years this type of training was to be common to the Seaforth Highlanders, with "landings" made at Maple Bay, Tod Inlet and Macaulay Point, the latter two areas being close to Victoria. In this way every hour of the three or four days allowed for summer training was used, and even the time marching to camp, short as it was, could be employed to benefit the men. Once at the tented camp at Heal's Range, the battalion would be exercised in drill, section and platoon tactics, administration, and sometimes a demonstration would be put on by a platoon of men from the permanent force demonstrating some feature in field craft. Scattered in groups would be the specialist platoons-the signallers transmitting messages in morse code by lamp or Fuller phone, the stretcher bearers working on some unwilling "casualty", the pipes and drums filling the air with their martial music as they worked singly or as a group under the sharp eye of Pipe Major Gillies, or the recently organized machine-gun platoon working on their Vickers guns under Lt. H. E.F. Clark. [FN: This specialist platoon was organized in 1929. In 1933 the unit began to train a company to use these guns.] This [the first] HMCS Vancouver was a (F6A) Destroyer, Thornycroft S-class, among the earliest ships delivered to the Royal Canadian Navy. It was commissioned 1 March 1928. She ws formerly the HMS Toreador of the Royal Navy; she was paid off in November 1936. She primarily served as a training ship.