He retired in 2013, after simultaneously serving as the G-3 Tasks for LFCA and as Company Commander of C Coy of the Lorne Scots. CWO Dalziel then took his commission to Captain and deployed to Afghanistan as Aide de Camp to the Deputy Commanding General Police Reform Directorate where he was attached to the US CENTCOM and awarded the US Meritorious Service Medal. Upon his return in 2005, he was invested into The Order of Military Merit as a Member.
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In 2004, he deployed to Bosnia as the Task Force Balkans Regimental Sergeant Major and worked as the head of the Inspections Verification Team. In 2003, he moved up the Area Command where he was 1st a Reserve Advisor to The Deputy Commander of Land Force Central Area and then became the Area Sergeant Major. In 1998, he moved up the Brigade Headquarters 1ft as the Battle School Sergeant Major and then in 1999, became the Brigade Sergeant Major. In 1993, he was promoted to CWO and began the Regimental Sergeant Major (RSM) of The Lorne Scots. He rapidly rose through the ranks to become CSM of C Coy in Georgetown, then CSM of B Coy in Brampton.
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Watch Colonel Edward Conover's full interviewĬaptain Stewart Dalziel joined the Lorne Scots in 1969, was promoted Corporal in 1971, and then Sergeant one year later.In addition to his many Canadian medals, which include the Canadian Decoration and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, Colonel Conover has also been awarded the Purple Heart, The Bronze Star, and the Congressional Gold Medal by the Government of the United States. Colonel Conover was an active member of the Senate of the Regiment and was a member of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 15.
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He has held many distinguished positions with the Senate of the Regiment and The Regimental Association being the 1st Chair of the Regimental Museum and the 1st Chair of the Regimental Trust Fund among other positions. He advanced to become the Honorary Lieutenant Colonel and then the Honorary Colonel of The Regiment. In his post war military career, he quickly rose through the ranks of The Lorne Scots (Peel, Dufferin and Halton Regiment) to become the Commanding Officer of the Regiment (as his Father was before him) in the 1960s. He returned home after being wounded in Italy. He transferred to active service in 1942, and served overseas in the 1st Canadian Special Forces Battalion, part of The 1st Special Service Force, a combined Canadian/American commando group know as "The Devils Brigade". The poppy continues to be sold worldwide to raise money and to remember those who lost their lives in the First World War and in subsequent conflicts.The Late Colonel Edward Conover CD joined the then Peel and Dufferin Regiment (now The Lorne Scots) as a bugler in 1936. White poppies, for example, symbolise peace without violence and purple poppies are worn to honour animals killed in conflict. Other charities sell poppies in different colours, each with their own meaning but all to commemorate the losses of war. Selling poppies proved so popular that in 1922 the British Legion founded a factory - staffed by disabled ex-servicemen - to produce its own. They were supplied by Anna Guérin, who had been manufacturing the flowers in France to raise money for war orphans. She campaigned to make the poppy a symbol of remembrance of those who had died in the war.Īrtificial poppies were first sold in Britain in 1921 to raise money for the Earl Haig Fund in support of ex-servicemen and the families of those who had died in the conflict. In 1918, in response to McCrae's poem, American humanitarian Moina Michael wrote 'And now the Torch and Poppy Red, we wear in honor of our dead…'. It was first published in Punch, having been rejected by The Spectator.
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The flower provided Canadian doctor John McCrae with inspiration for his poem 'In Flanders Fields', which he wrote whilst serving in Ypres in 1915.
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They flourished in the soil churned up by the fighting and shelling.
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Poppies were a common sight, especially on the Western Front. It is strongly linked with Armistice Day (11 November), but the poppy's origin as a popular symbol of remembrance lies in the landscapes of the First World War. The poppy is the enduring symbol of remembrance of the First World War.