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Type: Document
Description: Jack Shadbolt, official war artist, is known for his paintings and sketchings of the German prisoner of war camps at Pettawawa (Ontario). Includes a brief biography as well as some of his works.
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
 
Type: Document
Description: George Tinning's paintings, particularly his watercolours, demonstrate that regardless of army instructions, or new and sometimes difficult subject matter, what mattered was what he could make of it as an artist. Tinning began his military career in the 2nd Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) in June 1942.
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
 
Type: Document Image
Description: Provides a brief biography of Charles Comfort, official war artist.
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
 
Type: Document
Description: Georgina Pope served at British hospitals just north of Cape Town, South Africa, as senior sister in 1899. In 1908 she attained the position of matron, first in the history of Canadian Army Medical Corps.
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
 
Type: Document
Description: Lieutenant-Colonel François-Louis Lessard went to South Africa as a Canadian officer attached to the British Army to learn about the latest developments in warfare. In 1900, the Canadian government appointed him to command the 1st Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles, later named the Royal Canadian Dragoons.
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
 
Type: Document
Description: As an official war artist with the RCAF, Schaefer served with Fighter, Bomber and Coastal Commands in the United Kingdom and Iceland. His paintings, sketchbooks, and war diaries are retained in the art collection of the Canadian War Museum.
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
 
Type: Document
Description: Sam Hughes was a senior militia officer and an influential Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party. He accompanied the first Canadian contingent in an unofficial capacity into South Africa.
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
 
Type: Document
Description: Charles W. Drury was known as the 'Father of Modern Field Artillery in Canada' for his many innovations. He accompanied the first Canadian contingent to study military developments during the South African War.
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
 
Type: Document
Description: The legacy of the Canadian experience with machine guns in South Africa was that the Canadian Expeditionary Force went to war in 1914 armed with the Colt machine gun.
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
 
Type: Document
Description: Lieutenant-Colonel William D. Otter became the first Canadian-born officer to command this country's military. As commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry in South Africa, his no nonsense, no frills approach to soldiering brought him into conflict with the less disciplined ways of his officers and men, but his austere professionalism got results.
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
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