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The Black Watch

The Black Watch arrives off Botwood, 1940
Infantrymen with Canada’s Black Watch arrive off Botwood aboard HMCS Ottawa on June 22, 1940. Their mission was to defend the town and its airbase in the event of attack.

Photographer unknown. Courtesy of Library and Archives Canada (PA-104040), Ottawa, Ontario.
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