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Despite a near total lack of support from the Federal Gov’t our troops always shine wherever they are placed, often underequipped but never out fought!

I will post it up in the Collector Stories thread!

Thanks Alan, it was nice to revisit the collection in photos and post them here.

Yes that gas hood is incredibly rare and was a tough negotiation to get that out of Vic's prized collection. The ensemble was meant to be staring at you as you entered into the room and was quite haunting! I know the bookstore you are referring to in Ypres, been to Ypres many many times over...

Thanks for the kind words, that display setup of the many battledress with their corresponding berets or officer soft caps was a lot of fun to put together. The hat stand is from a retail supply company here in town, each level moved individually of the rest so you could turn each level to see...

Thanks for the kind words Peter, yeah the Airborne was fantastic and was fortunate to have several FSSF uniforms, all attributed with photos of the men wearing them. Sgt Mann was especially a fantastic piece. I do like the aesthetic element to the hobby almost as much as the items themselves...

Thanks Zeb and indeed you have a keen eye!

Your welcome Lars, I am glad you enjoyed it and it was a nice trip down memory lane for me as well! The tankers mask was a gift to Tony and for the badges it would seem out of place to keep just one badge no matter how rare, so I thought the best place for it was to donate it to the Regimental...

Thanks! The cabinets were amazing, my friend is an artisan woodworker with incredible talent specializing in unique one of a kind furniture. He’s built a few pieces for us. The cabinet doors are a collage of the Sword of Remembrance found on every cross at Commonwealth War Graves along with...

Thanks Steve, if you think this is something it pales in comparison to what Vic T had put together in Calgary. CEF collecting is pretty rewarding, but nothing beats the history behind the items. Your books sound quite interesting! Are you working on any new battalion histories?

That’s one I never played. Loved the old Panzer Leader and Panzer Blitz games. I really enjoy the MBT Panzer series now but I’m just getting back into military board gaming after a long hiatus. The game Peter has set up looks really good!

Awesome room Peter! I love games, have many of the old Avalon Hill and SPI games to the new Compass Games and so on!

That and the Bren gun were especially useful on Halloween.... ;) I was lucky that Vic Taboika, who maybe built the largest Canadian collection ever, thinned out and I was his first call after the Calgary Regimental Museum. Vic built an incredible collection and had his own personal 3 story...

Thanks John, this was a lot of fun trying to put a complete Canadian WW1 cap badge collection together, and I was able to do it including the mega rare E9 badge, which now resides in the Edmonton Regimental Museum along with a lot of other Edmonton related militaria and those 2 cabinets. I...