PHOTO: Help Us Identify RCMP Officers
September 30, 2014
Veteran Jack Cronkhite is seeking to identify RCMP officers in the photograph below. He suspects that the photograph is that of officers from “Depot” Division, “F” Division and the Regina Crime Lab.
The photograph is below:
Photograph of members of the Regina RCMP Officer’s Mess (Source of photo – Veteran Jack Cronkhite).
Veteran Jack Cronkhite has identified some of these officers as follows:
FRONT ROW (left to right): Cliff Morin, Ted Madill, Tom Light, Bob Mills (CO Depot), Dave Whyte, Bill MacRae, and Keith Ziegler.
MIDDLE ROW (left to right): Dale Embree, Lorne Fletcher, Ted James, John Middleton, Ian Brownlee, Larry Callens, unknown #1, Jim Dawe and Bob McAlister.
BACKROW (left to right): Bob Head, John Kolmaticki, unknown #2, Keith Thompson, Bob Kropinak,, Tony Antoniuk, Jim Nickel and Barry Smith.
To see a larger image of this photograph – please click here.
According to the “Behind The Badge: The History of the RCMP “Depot” Division” by Dale Sheeham and Redd Oosten (page 1680) Robert Mills was the Commanding Officer of “Depot” Division from September 1975 to August 1978. Between August 1978 and September 1980, Dave Whyte was also the Commanding Officer of “Depot” Division.
If you can assist Jack to identify these officers, please email him at jackcronkhite@sasktel.net
