News of Interest

Our thanks go to Bob Duplessis and Wilf Holdam for letting us have access to their old copies of the Balmoral Newsletters.  With their copies, our collection now goes back to issue number 10, dated June 1988.  If you happen to have a copy of issues number 1 through 9, which cover the period of 1983 to 1988, please give Gord Ritchie a call at 514-331-8497.  We've been told by one of the more senior members that 1983 was the first year that the Association started to send out the Balmoral Newsletter.  Does anyone remember what the Association did send out before that date?

At our last meeting in June two of our members gave a report on their recent trips to Europe.  Jim Wilkinson gave a brief talk about his trip to Holland in May.  He was happy to report that the replacement plaque honouring the Black Watch at Woensdrecht, Holland has been mounted.  The original plaque had been stolen.

Bob Duplessis reported that he was very well received when he visited the Regimental Museum in Perth, Scotland in April.  The Museum people were surprised and happy to receive a 100 pound donation made by the BW Association. This donation will assist them in the repair of the statue honouring all of the BW soldiers who died or were wounded in the Boer War.  During the Boer War the Montreal Black Watch, then known as the 5th Royal Scots, lost 2 soldiers at the Battle of Paardeberg in February 1900. This Black Watch statue is located off the Royal Mile in Edinburgh.