Royal Canadian School of Artillery

[rob love]

No need to apologize Robert. Hopefully you find the information the fellow was looking for.

[r.morrison]

Hey Rob...no problem. Your help is always appeciated!! Odd thing about this "inquiry" is my high school teacher's surname is also Love. He also served in my father's regiment, The Hasty Pees.
And there was always a good story to have in his class. At one point (Grade 12), Mr Love asked us to bring is any "war souveniers" of our families, as the "wars" were the topic of the month. Various bits of ordinance and apparel appeared. However, yours truly brought in a WW1 DMW Luger, much to the delight of everyone, especially Mr Love. I bought it off a classmate of mine in Grade 10 for $20.00 CDN, which to him was a $1000.00. To this day, he often reminds me of that day.
One of the other items to appear was a (correct me if I'm wrong) was a 25 pound aerial practice bomb (white) which I've seen occassionally here and there. At that point we didn't know about the term "practice", so in order to find out what was the status of the bomb, we smuggled it aboard a twin engine Cessna during a Geography outing over the Niagara Falls and Lake Ontario. The bomb was launched into Lake Ontario without any explosion...much to the dismay of the occupants of the aircraft.
So endith our history lesson for today!

Hopefully I'll be able to add something to this once I get the info out.

Cheers and again thanks.

Robert

[rob love]

I do have a list somewhere of the wherabouts and status of a lot of Farley Mowatts bringbacks. If I come accross the list I'll check it. Last I saw it was in the glovebox of my M38A1, but I cleaned the glovebox out last summer so now I will have to look for it.

The list did prove handy previously. I retrieved a Flakveirling form the local scrapyard, and was preparing the receivers (cutting them) so the unit could be exported. I saw some serial numbers that I had not seen before, walked over to the Jeep and got the list. Sure enough, it was a Mowatt bring back. It had been scrapped at some time in the early 70s along with a Flak36 and languished in the scrapyard for some 40 years.