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The Corps of Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (RCEME) (French: Corps du génie électrique et mécanique royal canadien) is a personnel branch of the Canadian Armed Forces (CF) that provides army engineering maintenance support. All members of the corps wear army uniform. From the 1980s to 2013 it was called the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Branch.

Corps of Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Corps du génie électrique et mécanique royal canadien (French)

Corps badge
Active
15 May 1944–present
Country
Canada
Branch
Canadian Armed Forces
Role
Army engineering maintenance
Home station
RCEME School situated at CFB Borden
Nickname(s)
Bluebell
Motto(s)
Latin: Arte et Marte, lit. 'By skill and by fighting'
Colours
Blue, yellow, red, light blue
March
"REME Corps March Past" (Both "Lillibulero" and "Auprès de ma blonde" should be played)
Slow march: "The Craftsman"[1]
Mascot(s)
Sadie
Insignia
Headdress
Dark blue beret
History
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The Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers came into being officially on 15 May 1944, with the fusion of various elements from the Royal Canadian Engineers, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps and Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps, following the model of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME).

With the increase of mechanized equipment during World War II, the need to have one corps dedicated to service and maintenance thereof was becoming increasingly apparent. Trucks had become the de facto means of transportation and logistic support, armoured vehicles had replaced cavalry, weapons were becoming more complicated, as well as the advent of radios and radar, it was apparent that the previous model of having a different corps for each job was inadequate for a modern, mechanized army.

The majority of RCEME technicians were, and still are, vehicle mechanics, but the original RCEME structure incorporated 25 different trades and sub-trades, employing specialists for each particular job in order to train and deploy them in time to meet the war's demand. While it was somewhat bulky, it was nonetheless a centralized structure for maintaining the Army's everyday equipment which was more efficient than the previous system of having each corps perform its own equipment maintenance, and also allowed for a greater degree of specialization within trades.

RCEME formation and early years
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RCEME 1944
The RCEME Corps badge consisted of a laurel wreath, three shields, the Tudor Crown surmounting, and the letters R.C.E.M.E. on a scroll underneath. Emblazoned on the shields were: on the first, three lightning bolts, which represented the telecommunications trades, three cannons, which represented armament, and a large gear, representing the vehicle mechanics. On the second shield, above the three cannons are three cannonballs, which are larger than the cannons. This came from the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps, which in turn inherited it from its British counterpart, the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. There has been a misconception that its significance goes back to the Crimean War when ammunition shipped to the front was too big to fit in the cannons, and was intended to remind the members of that Corps of how imperative doing their job well was (though it was not really their fault; it was the manufacturer's mistake) however this is untrue. In the first place the Board of Ordnance, adopted the Arms (from which the Ordnance Shield derives) as early as the mid 17th Century, a good hundred years before the Crimean War started. At which time the shield was used by the artillery as well. The Arms were approved by the King in 1806, and the grant of Arms by the College Arms particularly states that they be the same as those previously in use.

Secondly, in good heraldic design, not only to show the charges, which in this case are the guns and shot, symbolically and sometimes exaggerated, but that these charges should fill the shield in which they are placed without losing the balance of the design as a whole. The placing of the cannonballs in the chief and the guns in the lower two-thirds of the shield illustrate this aspect of recognized heraldic design.

There was some debate as to what the regimental march should be, and several tunes, including "Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho!" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs were proposed, but the final tune chosen was a medley of "Lillibullero" and "Auprès de ma blonde", just as REME had chosen. However, there were some things that RCEME chose differently from their British counterparts. The regimental slow march of REME was not chosen for RCEME, but rather, the tune chosen was "The Flower of Scotland", and St. Jean de Brébeuf was named the patron saint.

Each division had a central workshop, where major repairs would be conducted, and within the division, RCEME units would be embedded to effectuate certain repairs (1st Line) on the spot. This included light aid detachments, which could deploy quickly to recover or repair equipment on the line, or in transit to the front. The RCEME triage system was divided into three groups: 1st Line, which would be embedded in the operational units, would carry out routine maintenance and minor repairs; 2nd Line, which was located in field workshops back from the front, carried out major overhauls and full component replacements; 3rd Line would be responsible for reconditioning and rebuilding equipment. Though the location of each and various tasks have changed, the structure is still in place today, with 1st Line maintenance platoons / troops embedded in combat units, while 2nd Line is located 20 minutes to 2 hours away, but still in theatre, and the only 3rd Line workshop in service is 202 Workshop in Montreal.

In 1949, the RCEME Corps adopted a new badge, nearly identical to the British one which had been struck in 1947. It consisted of a white horse (a mustang, as opposed to the Arabian horse of the British badge) superimposed over a lightning bolt, with a chain fixed around its neck running down its back, standing on a globe, to which the other end of the chain is attached, which pictured the Western Hemisphere (whereas the British badge pictured Europe, Africa, Australia, Antarctica and Asia). Behind the horse's head was a scroll with the letters R.C. on one side of the head, and E.M.E. on the other, surmounted by the Tudor Crown.

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The only modification ever made to this badge was in 1952 when Elizabeth II ascended to the throne, and the Tudor Crown was replaced with St. Edward's Crown.

During the 1950s, the RCEME Corps was reorganized to accommodate the postwar structure of the Army, and many trades were combined, due to the need to have specialists quickly fielded for the war no longer existing. Young craftsmen (as privates in the corps are called) trained in their trade at the RCEME school, titled the Royal Canadian School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, located in Kingston, Ontario, then deployed to the various squadrons and troops of RCEME to perform their trades.

In the mid-1960s, Canadian Army planners were again looking to streamline the structure of the Army, and beginning in 1965, various models were proposed for combining the elements of maintenance, supply and transport for each brigade into one unit. The result was the formation in 1968 of service battalions, each consisting of maintenance, supply and transport companies, while craftsmen who had previously belonged to RCEME squadrons and only attached to the combat unit, were incorporated directly into the unit, and administered through the unit's chain of command rather than the RCEME squadrons and troops, which ceased to exist. RCEME ceased to have its own autonomous chain of command; they worked for a service battalion with Supply and Transport, or a service company or squadron within a combat unit.

RCEME to LORE
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LORE Badge, 1973
1968 also saw the unification of the Canadian Forces, which saw the RCEME Corps disbanded, and replaced with the Canadian Forces Land Ordnance Engineering Branch. Several RCEME trades were shed off and went over to the Air Force, such as machinist and metals technician, the Radio and Radar Techs and the RCEME flag, which consisted of three horizontal stripes of dark blue on top, yellow in the middle, and red on the bottom, received a fourth stripe: light blue, to represent the Air Force personnel now working the LORE workshops. In spite of the RCEME Corps being disbanded, Canada's craftsmen continued to wear the old cap badge until 1973 when a new one was introduced. The new badge was an oval in shape, had a wreath of 10 maple leaves, which represented Canada's ten provinces, and on a blue field, which represented the Air Force, were a lightning bolt, superimposed on two crossed cannons, superimposed on a Wankel-type piston (the symbol the Society of Automotive Engineers) and surmounted by St. Edward's Crown.

The 1970s also saw more trades added to the LORE Branch, and existing trades condensed. For example, all the trades pertaining to repair of vehicles were grouped together into the vehicle technician's trade, all weapon-related trades were combined into the weapons technician trade, and all electrical trades were grouped together into the electro-mechanical technician. All the material-support trades were transferred to the air force.

In the 1980s, it was confirmed that the organization of materials support was inadequate for the army's needs; some trades were performed by vehicle technicians, such as auto-body, others by air force trades, such as machinists, and welding was divided between the air force's metals technician and the army's vehicle technician trades. In 1985, these were all combined into the materials technician's trade, belonging to the LORE Branch. It was also around this time that the LORE title was decided to be inaccurate in its description of the craftsmen's trades. After several proposals (including odd ones such as CREME), the title Land Electrical and Mechanical Engineers was finally settled upon for a new title. The badge did not change.

Another Battalion alumni does well!

"We also need to move beyond the strict limitations of our own history without abandoning historical mindedness, and understand how history itself not so much confines us as it guides us in solving the problems of today and tomorrow.”

Line of Sight, Not Your Father’s Staff College. 15 Oct 2021, Col Tod Strickland

Where do our visitors come from?

Our curator, Steve Waldron, working hard.

Originally scheduled for “late summer 2021,” the government in mid December released a much-anticipated request for proposals for the Canadian Army's (LVM) project to acquire 542 heavy trucks and as many as 1,113 light trucks to replace fleets that entered service in the 1990s. Major Tyrone Duncan, the project director, explains the next steps.

https://canadianarmytoday.com/bidding-opens-on-logistics-trucks/

Now it's easier to send 31 Service Battalion Museum a message.

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Indigenous and military leaders offer condolences following death of D-Day veteran CUT KNIFE, Sask. — Canada's Indigenous and military leaders paid tribute and offered condolences to the family of a Juno Beach veteran of the Second World War, who also advocated for Indigenous veterans after the war ended. "Today, Canada lost a great First Nations leader in Philip Favel," Assembl...

The 31 Service Battalion Museum has the largest collection of CWAC uniforms in Canada!

From Veterans Affairs Canada: D-Day
Stormy weather on June 5 forced a postponement of the invasion with many units already embarked and at sea. Conditions did not promise to improve substantially, but Allied meteorologists predicted a small window of opportunity on the June 6. Aware that the moon and the tides would not be favourable again for some time,General Eisenhower gave the go ahead. There could be no turning back.

Canadian airmen and sailors were among the first into action. The Royal Canadian Air Force had already been involved for several months in bombing key enemy targets in the invasion area: roads, bridges, railways, airfields, and command and communications centres. Now they flew as part of the 171 Allied squadrons that attacked on D-Day. As H-Hour approached, RCAF Lancasters of No. 6 Bomber Group dropped thousands of tons of explosives on German coastal defences. Canadian fighter pilots fought the Luftwaffe in overcast skies, contributing in large measure to the achievement of Allied air supremacy. As well, they protected the soldiers on the beach, and attacked German formations on the ground. The first Allied planes to operate from French soil since 1940, RCAF squadrons No. 441, 442, and 443 continued to ravage enemy columns and support offensives throughout the campaign, helping to tilt the tactical balance in the Allies' favour.

The Royal Canadian Navy provided 109 vessels, and 10,000 sailors as its contribution to the massive armada of 7,000 Allied vessels which went to sea on D-Day. Battling choppy waters and rain, they kept the German fleet bottled up in its ports. Canadian minesweepers assisted in the tricky but crucial job of clearing a safe path across the English Channel for the invasion fleet. The guns of Canadian destroyers like HMCS Algonquin and HMCS Sioux silenced enemy shore batteries and continued to fire in support of ground attacks in the days to come. The armed merchant cruisers HMCS Prince Henry and Prince David carried Canadian troops and the landing craft in which they made their run to the beaches; they later returned to England with Canadian wounded. RCN flotillas of landing craft transported infantry and tanks to shore and provided additional fire support for them.

While it was still dark in the early hours of June 6, Allied paratroopers, including 450 Canadians, jumped from aircraft or landed in gliders behind the German coastal defences. Separated by gusty winds, outnumbered, and only lightly armed, they nevertheless captured a German headquarters, destroyed a key bridge, and seized an important crossroads, all the while sowing confusion and disorder within enemy ranks.

Meanwhile, the Canadian soldiers scheduled to land at Juno Beach warily approached the coastline in their landing craft. Wet, cold, and seasick, they were also confident. On "Mike" sector, most of the 1st Hussars' tanks managed to get ashore in good order to provide covering fire as the Regina Rifles touched down just after 8:00 a.m. That was fortunate since the preliminary bombardment had failed to knock out many German defensive positions. The near invulnerable pill-boxes could be destroyed only by direct hits through their observation slits but, working in tandem, the tanks and infantry succeeded in fighting their way off the beach and into the nearby town of Courseulles-sur-Mer where they became engaged in house-to-house combat. They were moving inland by late afternoon. Other Reginas never reached the beaches—a reserve company suffered terrible losses when its landing craft struck mines hidden by high tide.

The company of Victoria's Canadian Scottish and most of The Royal Winnipeg Rifles at "Mike" made it ashore without much trouble, the beneficiaries of accurate naval gunfire which neutralized the German battery that dominated their area of the beach. The Winnipeg company at the western edge of Courseulles was not so lucky. There the bombardment had missed its targets, and the landing craft came under brisk gunfire while they were still far offshore. Although forced to "storm their positions cold [they] did so without hesitation," the unit's war diary noted. Many men died the instant they waded into the chest-high water. Nonetheless, the survivors advanced past the beach defences, cleared the minefields, and occupied the adjoining coastal villages. The victory did not come cheaply. In a few hours, the company lost almost three-quarters of its men.

But none of the "Little Black Devils", as the regiment was nicknamed, "had flinched from his task, no matter how tough it was [or] failed to display courage and energy and a degree of gallantry." They had not been alone. The Winnipegs' commanding officer later paid tribute to The 1st Hussars' "gallantry, skill and cool daring" in coming to the assistance of his battalion "time and again throughout D-Day, without thought of their own safety or state of fatigue..."

At "Nan" sector on Juno Beach, The North Shore Regiment and The Queen's Own Rifles also encountered enemy gun emplacements that had survived the preliminary bombardment. One concrete bunker and its defenders inflicted heavy casualties on the North Shores and destroyed several Sherman tanks of The Fort Garry Horse before being silenced. The North Shore's other companies made it ashore without incident, but needed six hours and armoured support to take the town of Tailleville.

Toronto's Queen's Own Rifles received the worst battering of any Canadian unit on D-Day. The initial bombardment on their sector of "Nan" had barely dented the enemy's fortifications. The DD tanks, supposed to "swim" in ahead of the infantry to diminish German resistance, had been forced by high waves to land after them, "within a few hundred yards of the muzzles of the beach defence guns," one tank commander recalled afterward. Only a few made it into action.

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A half-hour late, the landing craft carrying the Queen's Own hit the beach more or less intact. Then the bloodbath began, the men making a mad dash from the shoreline to a seawall 183 metres away with no cover in between. A hidden German 88 opened up on the lead platoon of one company, decimating two-thirds of it before being silenced. Only a handful survived to get off the beach.

A second Queen's Own company landed directly in front of an untouched enemy strongpoint and very quickly lost half of its men, until three riflemen eliminated it with hand grenades and small arms fire. The price had been high, but the Queen's Own moved off the beach. The war diary of this, one of the oldest regiments in the Canadian Army, reflected the unit's unflagging spirit under onerous conditions.

The reserve units of the Canadian Scottish and the Chaudières arrived on the heels of the initial assault. The Scottish suffered the lightest casualties of any Canadian battalion on D-Day. But, coming in on the rising tide, many of Le Régiment de la Chaudière's landing craft struck concealed mines, and their occupants had no option but to throw off their equipment and swim to shore. Soon, both regiments were surging forward. By noon, the 9th Infantry Brigade was on its way to the beaches to exploit the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division's hard-won gains.

Although only one Canadian unit reached its D-Day objective, the first line of German defences had been completely smashed. By evening, Canadian troops had progressed further inland than any of their Allies. It was a remarkable achievement but, despite casualties being less than expected, it was an expensive one, too. "The German dead were littered over the dunes, by the gun positions," a Canadian journalist reported. "By them, lay Canadians in bloodstained battledress, in the sand and in the grass, on the wire and by the concrete forts. . . . They had lived a few minutes of the victory they had made. That was all." To ensure that D-Day would succeed, 340 Canadians had given their lives. Another 574 had been wounded and 47 taken prisoner.

D-Day Landings
And a resounding success it was. The British and Americans had also come ashore and pushed inland; the Allied beachheads soon formed a continuous front. By the end of D-Day, the Allies had landed as many as 155,000 troops in France by sea and air, 6,000 vehicles including 900 tanks, 600 guns and about 4,000 tons of supplies and, astonishingly, had achieved complete surprise in doing it. The Atlantic Wall had been breached. But the battle had just begun. The bridgehead had to be secured and expanded to prevent the Wehrmacht from driving the Allies back into the sea.

Mark the 75th anniversary of the Liberation of the Netherlands with a brand new Heritage Minute

Between 1944 and 1945, the Canadian Army was given the important yet deadly task of liberating the Netherlands. Told through the eyes of Canadian Lieutenant Wilf Gildersleeve of the Seaforth Highlanders and of Marguerite Blaisse, a Dutch civilian, this Heritage Minute commemorates the sacrifice of Canadians who fought and celebrates the bond formed between Canada and the Netherlands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCWANopglXI&list=PL1848FF9428CA9A4A

For more information about the Liberation of the Netherlands, please click here.
Commémorez le 75e anniversaire de la libération des Pays-Bas avec une toute nouvelle Minute du patrimoine

Entre 1944 et 1945, l’Armée canadienne s’est vue attribuer la tâche importante, mais mortelle de libérer les Pays-Bas. Racontée des points de vue du lieutenant canadien Wilf Gildersleeve du régiment des Seaforth Highlanders et de Marguerite Blaisse, une civile néerlandaise, cette Minute du patrimoine commémore le sacrifice des Canadiens qui se sont battus et célèbre le lien qui s’est créé entre le Canada et les Pays-Bas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCWANopglXI&list=PL1848FF9428CA9A4A

Pour plus d’informations au sujet de la libération des Pays-Bas, cliquez ici.

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BRAND NEW Heritage Minute tells improbable love story during the liberation of the Netherlands Between 1944 and 1945, the Canadian Army was given the important yet deadly task of liberating the Netherlands. Told through the eyes of Canadian Lieutenant ...

One of our favourite vehicles, the M62 Wrecker: Get your helmet on. We are going back to the old recovery site for a week on the M62. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jovlIA0Vs5U

RECOVERY EQUIPMENT - PART I M62 MEDIUM WRECKER, OPERATION OF POWERED EQUIPMENT CONTROLS RECOVERY EQUIPMENT - PART I M62 MEDIUM WRECKER, OPERATION OF POWERED EQUIPMENT CONTROLS - Department of Defense 1956 - PIN 29885 - PROCEDURES FOR SETTING AND...

From the "All things old are new again" file:
A few years ago the Canadian forces were faced with how to deal with special dietary requirement for ethnic soldiers. This is not new...
I came across this item while reviewing Colonel M.V. McQueen's Logistics at War Reports.
From:
S&T (Supply and Transport) Departmental Instructions, 15 October 1944:
Para 186: FRESH MEAT FOR IT - ALTERNATIVES
In view of the shortage of fresh meat for IT (Indian Troops), temporary authority is granted for the additional alternative of Herring or Salmon at scale of 2 ozs, plus Ground Nuts with shells 2 ozs...

Nothing is new in the army.....

For the Fallen
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

The Argyll Regimental Museum and Archives had been closed for emergency repairs to the building but the Museum is, as many have probably noticed, being reassembled and the displays refreshed a bit. There will be a reopening of the Museum on November 10th to coincide with the Garrison Remembrance ceremony. The Museum is a project of the Argyll Regimental Foundation and, it should be noted, the hard work and selfless energy given by its volunteers has been key to its success. The individual skills of its volunteers who build cabinets, wire displays for lighting and refurbish artifacts have literally built a wonderful tribute to Argyll legacy from the ground up.

Hmmm.... This would be an interesting artifact for the museum.

Great News for our friends in Calgary!
https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/editorials/plan-for-new-afghan-museum-in-calgary-is-welcome-news-no-matter-where-you-live-in-canada

Plan for new Afghan museum in Calgary is welcome news, no matter where you live in Canada Ten-hut! The recent decision by Ottawa to build a new military museum in Calgary merits attention.The permanent museum will commemorate our country’s contributions to the war in Afghanistan, …

We're sad to say that today is the last day of the 2019 summer season. Thank you to everyone who came to visit. If you'd still like to stop by, send us a message and we can set up a time. Many thanks to our amazing volunteers: Steve, Sandy, Andy, Brie, Steve, and Veronica. We are able to honour the 31 Service Battalion because of your very hard work and dedication.

Further to the last post: They even have Poutine ration packs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vphtaCRmfk&feature=share

2014 Canadian IMPs Poutine MRE Review Tasting Meal Ready To Eat Ration Pack Army Food Unboxing Check out this review on 3 Canadian IMP Ration packs! Including the French Canadian classic: Poutine! See it for yourself! For all the folks in Montreal and ...

You've seen the IMP's in the Battalion Museum.....here is a review!

2016 Canadian Individual Meal Pack Breakfast MRE Review Scalloped Potatoes w Ham Ration Taste Test Check out this Canadian IMP (Individual Meal Pack). Scalloped Potatoes & Ham was one of the best breakfast MRE's I've had all year. This ration had a delicio...

A Hamilton connection in this video: Our battalion's own M.V. McQueen is featured at about the 5 minute mark. Colonel McQueen, was one of the original founders of the Service Corps in Hamilton in the early 1900's. At the time of this video, he was the senior planner and co-ordinator of the Canadian logistics plan in the Italian campaign. Post war Col McQueen returned to Hamilton as Officer Commanding, 133 Company Royal Canadian Service Corps and Honourary Lieutenant Colonel and Honorary Colonel of the Hamilton Service Battalion. In his civilian life, Col McQueen was the Principal at Westdale High School for many years. Great to see some hometown content in these old videos! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9ngUyeP-vU

Canadian Army Newsreel, No. 57 (1945) Language: This film is a heritage item from Library and Archives Canada and is only available in English. The Canadian Army Newsreels were ten-minute films, ...

Today is the 75th Anniversary of D Day, the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
Today, we honour and remember those who fought and those who fell.

OPEN TODAY! Our 2019 season starts today and Sunday, from 10am to 4pm. We have several newly acquired artefacts. If you operated this radio you should be collecting your Canada Pension Plan C42 set. We're at 650 Catherine Street North, 2nd Floor, Building 1

This weekend!

OPEN THIS WEEKEND! Our 2019 season starts this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, from 10am to 4pm. Come see our completely re-designed displays and recently acquired artefacts. Come on in - we're excited to see you! 650 Catherine Street North, 2nd Floor, Building 1

OPEN THIS WEEKEND! Our 2019 season starts this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, from 10am to 4pm. Come see our completely re-designed displays and recently acquired artefacts. Come on in - we're excited to see you! 650 Catherine Street North, 2nd Floor, Building 1

31 Service Battalion Museum (Hamilton) - All You Need to Know Before You Go - UPDATED 2018 (Hamilton, Ontario) - TripAdvisor 31 Service Battalion Museum, Hamilton: See 2 reviews, articles, and 14 photos of 31 Service Battalion Museum, ranked No.110 on TripAdvisor among 185 attractions in Hamilton.

http://www.army-armee.forces.gc.ca/en/news-publications/central-news-details-page-secondary-menu.page?doc=curator-and-founder-brings-a-personal-touch-to-31-service-battalion-museum/ig9v0vme # # ://www.facebook.com/pages/31-Service-Battalion-Museum/413122562111894

An article written in 2015 by Steven Fouchard of Army Public Affairs Central Canada about our Curator (and museum), Capt. (Ret.) Steven Waldron CD.

Army News in Central Canada | Canadian Army | Article | Curator and founder brings a personal touch to 31 Service Battalion Museum A unique and extensive collection of uniforms and memorabilia from the Canadian Women’s Army Corps is just one of the highlights at Hamilton Ontario’s 31 Service Battalion Museum, founded and curated by Captain (Retired) Steve Waldron.

Have you read our recent reviews on tripadvisor? Check them out!
https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Attraction_Review-g154990-d11707868-Reviews-31_Service_Battalion_Museum-Hamilton_Ontario.html
If you visit us be sure to leave a review.

31 Service Battalion Museum (Hamilton) - All You Need to Know Before You Go - UPDATED 2018 (Hamilton, Ontario) - TripAdvisor 31 Service Battalion Museum, Hamilton: See 2 reviews, articles, and 14 photos of 31 Service Battalion Museum, ranked No.110 on TripAdvisor among 185 attractions in Hamilton.

The Museum is now open for the summer! Come visit every Saturday and Sunday from 10:00am-4:00pm June-August.