Lt Col Thomas Leslie dressed in trews, summer dress tunic and a bowler hat by the Officers' Mess tent Camp Vernon, Summer 1939. One front is marked in ink "Colonel".The photo was taken by Les Ingram who was on officer's mess fatigue duty. Regimental History, p. 48-49: "During the summers of 1938 and 1939 the Seaforths were allowed to take more men to camp, and they were permitted to be in camp for an entire week. The camp at Sidney in 1938 was a modest one compared to the large concentration of all militia units at Vernon in the summer of 1939. Here for the first time since the war, the infantry, cavalry and other supporting units gathered together to engage in fairly extended field manoeuvres. In a sense it represented the epitome of inter-war training at least in numbers and scope. The lines of tents drawn up along the slopes of Mission Hill, the sounds of the pipes, trumpets and bugles of the various bands, the swarms of khaki-clad militiamen on the streets of Vernon in the evening, and the marching columns of armed men out for route marches during the day, all gave an exceptionally martial air to the otherwise peaceful area."