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Author Archives: Roger Pocock
The Man Who Got it Right
Topic June / July 2023. Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne was a big man. He was 6 feet 4″ tall – most unusual for a man born in Victorian times (1865) and he was built accordingly. The name of Cutcliffe Hyne … Continue reading
It All Started Very Well…
Topic April / May 2023. It all started very well. The Legion of Frontiersmen have always trained with enthusiasm on simple crafts, such as basic first aid, fieldcraft, using radios etc. and been prepared to serve the State in times … Continue reading
Supporting the Police (Canada)
Topic February / March 2023. Back in August 2016 we posted a page Supporting the Authorities about the Legion supporting the legal authorities around the Commonwealth, even at times when the legal authorities’ causes might have been considered by some … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Frontiersmen, History, Latest Topic, Legion of Frontiersmen, World War II
Tagged Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg
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Reconciling the Frontiersmen
Topic December 2022 / January 2023. There are always two sides to an argument. Admittedly some times it is difficult to see the other side, which can often have little merit. When the Independent Overseas Command of the Legion of Frontiersmen … Continue reading
London’s Lord Mayor and the Frontiersmen
Topic October / November 2022. When the Lord Mayor of London, The Rt. Hon. Lord Mais, stepped onto the train at Agassiz Station late in the evening of Tuesday August 14th 1973 to continue a train journey across Canada it … Continue reading
The First Adjutant
Topic August / September 2022. To follow the previous topic page, another instance of a sad and early death is that of Charles Cory Kernick. Kernick was a world traveller and this was before the days when travellers to less civilised … Continue reading
Posted in Frontiersmen, History, Latest Topic, Legion of Frontiersmen, Roger Pocock
Tagged Charles Cory Kernick
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The Perils of Hurried Handwriting
Topic June / July 2022. One of the tasks assigned to History and Archives when it was set up in 2001 was to demolish the many myths which have sprung up around the Legion of Frontiersmen. One of the earliest … Continue reading
Posted in Frontiersmen, History, Latest Topic, Legion of Frontiersmen
Tagged Lizzie Ireland, Lord Haldon, Palk family
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A Frontiersmen Magazine Centenary
Topic April / May 2022. Apart from the 1918 War Issue, the Frontiersman magazine had not been produced since the summer of 1914. Everyone wanted a Legion magazine, but it had always struggled to break even. There was a shortage … Continue reading
A Gallimaufry of Untold Tales
Topic Feb/Mar 2022. A constant stream of stories pass over the desks of the official Legion of Frontiersmen historians. Most of these stories are too brief to form a Topic page. In this topic page we will pause to tell … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Frontiersmen, History, Latest Topic, Legion of Frontiersmen
Tagged Hong Kong, Sir John Martin Harvey
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Keeping Clear of Politics
Topic Dec 21 / Jan 22. We saw in the previous topic page how Kaid Belton was dissatisfied because the Frontiersmen were not doing enough to counter the “Bolshies”, either in the original Legion of Frontiersmen or the breakaway Independent … Continue reading
The Frontiersmen Historian 