An other ranks helmet plate of the 1894 pattern. This particular example is of the one-piece, flat variation of the 1894 helmet plate. Convex one-piece versions, as well as two-piece versions (the cypher is separate) are also known. The officers' helmet plate was in three pieces (star, cypher and laurel) with a gilt washed finish.



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Regimental Publications and Regimental Obligations

Extract from a letter by Col P.R. Bingham, 1 November 1976, published in Pro Patria #30, November 1976

"Forty-five years ago today, I joined The Regiment in St Jean, Quebec, those were the days of depression and thirty dollars a month the pay of private soldiers and ninety for second lieutenants plus the fact that a dollar was worth a dollar, however, we all paid $1.00 for our subscription to four editions of the well known and enjoyed yellow coloured paper cover printed every year to and including 1939. Then in 1946 it started up again, same yellow colour and paper cover until 1971. Prior to WWII it was our "Connecting File" between the four scattered, London, Toronto, St Jean, Halifax, companies bringing us the news of names and events which otherwise would have been lost to us. Further those editions supplied our Historian with names and events for our Regimental History that no Battalion or company diary ever could! Today we have four scattered Battalions and the names and events reported each year in "The Connecting File" help keep alive the Regimental Family spirit, as it did between the four scattered companies Pre WWII. Also remember the Historian who has to write Volume Ill, who will need the continuing story, names and events of these four Battalions."