Close Quarter Combat Training / Entraînement au combat rapproché

 Halifax's Princess Louise Fusiliers going through close quarter combat training.

Locked Up Abroad - Sierra Leone Jungle Siege

 The Royal Irish Regiment members held hostage, then rescued by the Parachute Regiment, good on both regiments

PPCLI In Afganistan 2002-2012

Some more pictures I was able to take last month at the Military museum in Calgary, Alberta. Above is a LAV III 

An RCHA spotter, all regular force members of the Canadian army who are in the artillery are in the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery.

Back To Quebec (1959)

I usually post 18th century themed videos on my irishhighlander blog but this is 1950s and is at their barracks in the UK. Interesting clip

More PPCLI then Calgary Highlanders Museum, The Military museums, Calgary

PPCLI museum, The Military Museums, Calgary

LAV III as used by PPCLI in Afganistan

M113 APC as used in UNPROFOR in Bosnia 1992-95

Medak Pocket battle display. 

Afgan again

UN peacekeeping from Cyprus, Golan Heights,

2 PPCLI at Kapyong, ROK April 1951, I was actually at the battlefield 4 times from 1997-99

Defence of Britain in summer, 1940

Yugoslav Ak-47

House clearing, Sicily 1943

Cold war, 1965-88 and barracks circa 1922

oops, this is supposed to be a PPCLI soldier in the trenches 1915

I went into this museum backwards. I started at their Afganistan exhibit, then ended at their First World War one. I was using my brother in laws camera,so apologies for my errors in photography.

The Military Museums Calgary

This institution is made up of 4 Regimental museums of the Canadian army in Western Canada as well as The Royal Canadian Navy and the Royal Canadian Airforce. I visited this site on Friday, April 25, to contemplate the sacrifices made by Canadian men and women in the wars our country has had to fight. As well, I needed a quiet place to think to deal with the loss of my mother. I took so many pictures that I will have to ask my brother in law to help me store them, then once I get back to Japan I can then add them to the blog. It's worth the wait. This museum is the second largest military museum in Canada, only the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa is bigger.

With a T-72 which the Canadian army faced in Bosnia, and Kuwait-Iraq, 

M113 TOW

Churchill tank of The Calgary Regiment used at Dieppe, 1942

6pdr Anti-tank gun, RCA

Outside display of armour 

The entrance to the museum

With a 17pdr Anti-tank gun. My great great cousin used this when he was with the 2nd Anti-Tank Regiment, RCA during the Normandy campaign.