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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: June 14, 2014
Caption: The Saluting Battery / La batterie de salut Marker
Additional Description: Captions (English / French): (clockwise from the top left) Eleven 12 pounder guns were mounted in the Saluting Battery from about 1879 to about 1890. / Onze canons de 12 livres faisaient partie de la batterie de salut entre 1870 et 1890.; Delighted children watch a salute being fired from the Citadel in this color postcard image from 1907. / Carte postale de couleur datant de 1907 montrant des enfants qui assisted, ravis, au tir d’un salut au canon depuis la citadelle.; 1st Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery, fires a salute on Remembrance Day, 2009. / Le 1er Régiment d’artillerie de campagne de l’Artillerie royale canadienne tire un salut au canon pour souligner le jour du Souvenir, en 2009.; Members of the Royal Artillery prepare to fire a salut on a winter day in 1900. / Des membres de l’Artillerie royale se préparent à tirer un salut au canon, par un journée d’hiver de 1900.; Royal Artillery, members of the Citadel’s garrison, fire a salut in the late 1890s. / L’Artillerie royale de la garnison de la citadelle tire un salut au canon, vers la fin des années 1890.
Submitted: October 24, 2014, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p289960
File Size: 3.477 Megabytes

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