Detachment Profile
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Grand Bank Detachment
Ranger Postings
| Last Name | First Name | Start Date | End Date |
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| Goodyear | Ronald | Feb 20, 1939 Aug 29, 1946 | Aug 1940 Jul 31, 1950 |
| Saunders | Lloyd | Oct 1939 | Feb 1942 |
| Mercer | Reginald | Oct 1939 | Dec 1939 |
| Walters | Harry | Aug 6, 1940 | |
| Morris | Arthur | Feb 1942 | Jul 1942 |
| Pratt | Arthur | Aug 1942 | Jun 16, 1943 |
| Bragg | James | Sep 1942 | Sep 1943 |
| Luscombe | John | Jun 11, 1943 | Jul 28, 1943 |
| Gilbert | Clayton | Aug 19, 1943 | |
| Chynne | Andrew | Sep 1943 | Feb 1944 |
| Chancey | James | Apr 15, 1944 | |
| Penney | Nathan | Apr 1944 | |
| Rose | Earl | Aug 1944 | Sep 1946 |
| Gillingham | Eric | Sep 1944 | Jan 1946 |
| Pauls | George | Sep 1, 1945 | 1945 |
Narratives
Library Items
| Our quarters, Grand Bank. [Newfoundland Ranger Force detachment building] | ||
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| Date Published | 1939 | |
| Attribution | The Rooms Provincial Archives, MG 612, Series VA 126-128 VA 126-29.1 | |
| Note | Automobile parked in front of building, jail in background. "God save our King" signs above windows, photograph of King George VI & Queen Elizabeth in window and multiple Union Jack flags flying. The children, right, are wearing medals and ribbons, possibly in honour of the Royal tour of 1939. |
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| Newfoundland Rangers, Grand Bank detachment | ||
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| Date Published | 194- | |
| Attribution | The Rooms Provincial Archives, MG 612, Series VA 126-128 VA 127-51.1 | |
| Note | Identified: Sergeant Frederick Beauchamp (Regt. #5), Mrs. Lily Beauchamp, Gordon Butler (Regt. #39) and Ronald Goodyear (Regt. #71) The Rangers are wearing their khaki service dress uniforms. Lily (Lillian) Beauchamp's (nee Tavernor) father and two brothers were lost on the SS Caribou in 1942. |
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| Newfoundland Ranger Sergeant Frederick Beauchamp (Regt. #5), and wife Lily, Grand Bank | ||
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| Date Published | 193- | |
| Attribution | The Rooms Provincial Archives, MG 612, Series VA 126-128 VA 127-52.1 | |
| Note | Lily (Lillian) Beauchamp's (nee Tavernor) father and two brothers were lost on the SS Caribou in 1942. |
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| Newfoundland Ranger Force detachment building, Grand Bank | ||
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| Date Published | 193- | |
| Attribution | The Rooms Provincial Archives, MG 612, Series VA 126-128 VA 126-29.2 | |
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| Grand Bank detachment of Newfoundland Rangers on patrol | ||
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| Date Published | 194- | |
| Attribution | The Rooms Provincial Archives, MG 612, Series VA 126-128 VA 127-9.1 | |
| Note | Identified: Newfoundland Rangers, Fred Beauchamp (Regt. #5) and Edward Thorburn (Regt. #51). Note the supply-laden catamaran (sled). |
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