Hardcover, fire orange cloth cover, entitled "UWO Contingent COTC: The History of the Canadian Officers' Training Corps at the University of Western Ontario" by Hartley Munro Thomas, published by The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada in 1956. It documents the organization of the COTC at UWO during the First World War and its subsequent involvement in the war, followed by the Inter-War years and its participation in the Second World War, under its various commanders. It is divided into ten chapters: 1 - Introduction; 2 - Lieut.-Col. T.J. Murphy 1915-1919; 3 - Interregnum - 1920-1922 and Colonel W.J. Brown VD, 1922-1930; 4 - Lieut.-Col. E.E. Reilly 1931-1937; 5 - Lieut.-Col. A. Woods 1937-1939 / Lieut.-Col. G.W. Little, OBE MVO MC ED 1939-1940; 6 - Colonel Leonard 1940-1943; 7 - Air Training and Organization of the UATC (University Air Training Corps); 8 - Lieut.-Col. Frank Steling 1943-1947; 9 - Assumption College; 10 - Waterloo College. It finishes with a Conclusion, Sources and Authorities, Appendix, and Index. The book contains 424 pages of text, printed in black ink, on an off-white paper stock, plus twelve pages of black and white plates placed between pages 16 and 17, with fifteen photographs, illustrating nine commanders, along with six group shots, on a white coated paper stock, measuring 155 mm (w) x 235 mm (h) x 32 mm (d). It exhibits scuffing on the cover, however, it has experienced wear along the inner hinge on the back cover, exposing the underlying binding. Very fine.
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