1st Canadian Mounted Rifles, Pipe & Drum Band. (2 Viewers)

[Buster]

I'm going to finish off a couple of bits and pieces first though - before tackling the two bands. Just started mounting up a Russian Maxim pair of castings on a fabricated base-plate at the mo. Had it in my stash since last summer. One of these beasts - with a couple of infantrymen. jb

I bet the neighbors think twice before they pinch any rutabagas out of your garden jb. {eek3} ^&grin

B.

 

[johnnybach]

I wish! - Don't grow any of those anyway. Not very popular over here. I asked in a shop for some once ( A swede, by the way)- and was not so politely informed that they are regarded as "pig-food". Strangely though, Navettes (turnips) are popular in winter for adding to stews like "pot au feu" (literally pot in the fire) which is usually made with beef and veggies - and very much like Irish Stew or Cawl in Wales. jb

As for the gun - I would love one in the garden - might deter the moles!

 

[aujj65]

Hi John,

Waited until now (been in the bath with my new toy! :rolleyes2 to give my final verdict, Hmmm.......not bad! :wink2: Has got to be one of the best threads for a while on this forum.

{bravo}}

Jeff :salute::

 

[johnnybach]

Hi John,

Waited until now (been in the bath with my new toy! :rolleyes2 to give my final verdict, Hmmm.......not bad! :wink2: Has got to be one of the best threads for a while on this forum.

{bravo}}

Jeff :salute::

I've heard about boys like you playing with their toys in the bath.{eek3} Found any green on it yet? Be careful - you'll get shampoo in your eyes!

Glad you liked it. jb

 

[blaster]

Hi JB,

finally read thru this thread! Kept me up over a couple of nights. That mounted Canadian band is really something. I am not going to add further here. Nothing can top that project.

Rgds Victor

 

[Peter Maxfield]

Hi Johnny,

I'm Pete Maxfield from the 1st CMR website http://canadianmountedrifles.yolasite.com/

I've just been sent a new and much clearer version of the photo of (half) the Band at Brandon http://flic.kr/p/e6N3vt. From the info I've got, I think the full line-up at that point would have been:
14 Pipers
5 Snare/Side Drummers
3 Tenor Drummers (2 of which were also Buglers)
1 Bass Drummer
Total: 23 Men (and Horses!)
Photo was sent by Tom Van Walleghem, grandson of Piper 106369, Private David Robertson Louden, 1st CMR.

Being at Brandon, they were all "A" Squadron (Company) men, under my grandfather, Major Walter E. Maxfield, and the other Senior Major, Frederick Palmer (who was captured at the Battle of Sanctuary Wood, June 2nd 1916).

Nice work! Thank you for representing them. Could I use a photo of your band on the site?

Best wishes,

Pete.

 

[johnnybach]

Hi Johnny,

I'm Pete Maxfield from the 1st CMR website http://canadianmountedrifles.yolasite.com/

I've just been sent a new and much clearer version of the photo of (half) the Band at Brandon http://flic.kr/p/e6N3vt. From the info I've got, I think the full line-up at that point would have been:
14 Pipers
5 Snare/Side Drummers
3 Tenor Drummers (2 of which were also Buglers)
1 Bass Drummer
Total: 23 Men (and Horses!)
Photo was sent by Tom Van Walleghem, grandson of Piper 106369, Private David Robertson Louden, 1st CMR.

Being at Brandon, they were all "A" Squadron (Company) men, under my grandfather, Major Walter E. Maxfield, and the other Senior Major, Frederick Palmer (who was captured at the Battle of Sanctuary Wood, June 2nd 1916).

Nice work! Thank you for representing them. Could I use a photo of your band on the site?

Best wishes,

Pete.

Hi Pete - nice to hear from you - and that you are a descendant of one of the men of the CMR. I would be delighted to help out by letting you use any of my photos of the band that I made up from castings supplied by Yeomanary Miniatures of my representation of the Band, with great pleasure.

A bit more information for you about these figures. The owner of Yeomanary Miniatures is a very nice chap called Brian Harrison, and the sculptor of the figures is Alan Caton - who is a very well known and acomplished sculptor of many Military (and other) figures and figurines. I'm just an amateur painter - who tries his best to bring them back to life!

If any of your members would like a similar band - they are always available - either as castings, to be painted up by anybody ( though not me - I have enough to do expanding my own collection) - or can be purchased already painted by Brian ( who is also a Treefrog Forum member and can be contacted as "Yeoman" on here).

Hope that helps - All the best - Johnnybach

 

[Peter Maxfield]

Hi Pete - nice to hear from you - and that you are a descendant of one of the men of the CMR. I would be delighted to help out by letting you use any of my photos of the band that I made up from castings supplied by Yeomanary Miniatures of my representation of the Band, with great pleasure.

A bit more information for you about these figures. The owner of Yeomanary Miniatures is a very nice chap called Brian Harrison, and the sculptor of the figures is Alan Caton - who is a very well known and acomplished sculptor of many Military (and other) figures and figurines. I'm just an amateur painter - who tries his best to bring them back to life!

If any of your members would like a similar band - they are always available - either as castings, to be painted up by anybody ( though not me - I have enough to do expanding my own collection) - or can be purchased already painted by Brian ( who is also a Treefrog Forum member and can be contacted as "Yeoman" on here).

Hope that helps - All the best - Johnnybach

Hi again! I was wrong about all being "A" Company men - I mixed up Brandon with Yorkton! (All four squadrons gathered at Brandon). Here's a link to the highest resolution version of the photo that Tom sent to me, now on my flickr site at: http://flic.kr/p/e8LFZJ Thanks for all the offers! Tom is chasing an article on the Band through a Library, and hopes to get it shortly. He identified his grandfather as 'the man in the middle' of the group, 6th from left, and 6th from right. Piper 106369, Private David Louden. I did spot that you had a better version of the more frontal shot, taken at the same time - looks like it's from a book? I think Louden is 3rd from right in that one. Pete.

 

[johnnybach]

Hi again! I was wrong about all being "A" Company men - I mixed up Brandon with Yorkton! (All four squadrons gathered at Brandon). Here's a link to the highest resolution version of the photo that Tom sent to me, now on my flickr site at: http://flic.kr/p/e8LFZJ Thanks for all the offers! Tom is chasing an article on the Band through a Library, and hopes to get it shortly. He identified his grandfather as 'the man in the middle' of the group, 6th from left, and 6th from right. Piper 106369, Private David Louden. I did spot that you had a better version of the more frontal shot, taken at the same time - looks like it's from a book? I think Louden is 3rd from right in that one. Pete.

Hi again Pete. Thanks for a look at the better quality print of that pic of some members of the CMR Band - much better resolution! Wish I had had that when I was trying to find more info and pictures of the Band before I started - but that's just the way it goes sometimes. I obtained all of the pictures I have from various Internet searches - which led me to (mostly) Newspaper articles - or sections of books etc on other web-sites- and I saved my pictures to a file, as I usually do before stating a project. I also had leads from other members of this Forum from around the globe - in Australia and Singapore ( just to pick out two examples). This shows what a great resource this forum is, for the likes of me - whose interest is in painting up figures either bought as castings - or adapting other ones to look something like what I can find as pictures.

This Band, of course, is particularly interesting for me because of the mounted pipers and drummers - which they themselves billed as the first of it's kind in the World. It was disbanded shortly after WW1, of course - but the pictures somehow survived. The sculptor of the figures and I had quite a lively debate about them - which eventually led to them being produced by Brian Harrison of Yeomanary Miniatures - who is himslf a great friend of both Alan and myself.

Excellent news that others, like Tom Louden are finding out more about the band and their own relatives. I know that my own Grandfather was in the Royal Horse Artillery during WW1 - though was very badly hurt early on with a shrapnel wound to the head. Such injuries led to the adoption of anti-shrapnel helmets soon after - though sadly too late to enable me to have ever met him. Must be quite a buzz for others to find pictures of their Grand-dads!

Best of luck with your researches - I'll take a look in at your site from time to time. This Internet is such a marvelous resource eh?? Johnnybach.