ADIOS In July of 1947 Camp Wainwright summer camp forces participated in the dedication ceremony at the Town Clock honoring the war dead. General Worthington unveiled the plaque which bore inscriptions naming men from the surrounding community who lost their lives while fighting for our freedom. Upon General Worthington’s retirement that same year, a training exercise was executed in his honor, named “ADIOS”. Participants included 1 Battalion) CLI and Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians). This was a combined Infantry/Armoured exercise, the first live firing practice conducted after World War II. A spectator at the exercise succeeded Worthington’s command, Major General M.H.S. Penhale. In October of 1947 Active Force taining took place at Camp Wainwright. The opposite page notes some of the equipment in use at that time. Also part of the exercises of these years were Sherman tanks and 6 - pounder anti-tank guns. HUSKY 2 December of 1949 and the first two months of 1950 saw winter indoctrination exercises at Camp Wainwright involving reserve Army from across the prairies and B.C. This exercise was in prepararion for SWEETBRIAR which was an armoured and infantry exercise along the Alaskan Highway later in the year. United States was to present the enemy force coming from Alaska with Canadian troops holding the defensive line. Lt. Col. Jim Stone, at that time commanding the Rocky Mountain Rangers Militia with headquarters in Kamloops, recalled his battalion’s two month training stint in Wainwright. It was perhaps an even spattering of experienced militia and newcomers who received their winter field training here. Cross country travel on skis and snowshoes, having the meager warmth of a gas lamp in a canvas tent, and battling a major war against -40 degree temperatures topped off with a fierce wind, prepared the soldiers for far worse weather than SWEETBRIAR had to offer! _________image_________ “Just like Mom used to make. Careful of the good china, lads!” Lord Strathcona Horse (Royal Canadians) chowing down. A hot field meal was much appreciated by all ranks during training exercises. Appetites compared admirably to the vast expanse in which the men trained and cooks dealt with very few leftovers. _________image_________ “Let’s flip a coin… Heads we flatten it, tails we leave it for the next poor sots who have to train here in no man’s land…”