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2018.024.001
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THE MESSES
LES DÉSORDRES
Dedication & Roll Call - Sgts' & Warrant Officers' Mess at Seaforth Armoury, 27/30 Mar 1936
Dedication of the Sergeants' and Warrant Officers' Mess at the Seaforth Armoury by (Honourary) Captain Rev. George Pringle on 27 March 1936. Its first meerting was held on this date.
The Battalion marched in on 30 March 1936 and a list (roll call) of the Mess members is attached.
Rev. George Charles Fraser Pringle, D.D. was a pioneer Presbyterian Minister in the Yukon and a chaplain in the army overseas during World War I with the 50th Battalion and the Tank Battalion. His brother, The Reverend John Pringle was a Presbyterian minister who came to Skagway in 1898 and went on to build the first hospital, St. Andrews, in Atlin 1900. His brother George was also a Presbyterian Minister (who married Klondike Kate to her husband) and his brother James was a Sergeant with the NWMP who delivered mail from Dawson to Skagway. His sister Lucy worked as a nurse in the Atlin Hospital in 1922.

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