Joseph B. Clearihue - Canadian Official Photograph: 21st Battalion crossing the Rhine at Bonn, Germany
A "Canadian Official Photograph" depicting Lt. Col. Henry Edward Pense leading the 21st Battalion (Eastern Ontario), C.E.F. across the Rhine at Bonn, Germany, December 1918. Biography: Joseph Badenoch Clearihue was born in Victoria and attended Boys' Central School and Victoria High School before enrolling at Victoria College (graduated in 1903), McGill University and Oxford University. He enjoyed a long career as a student, a soldier in the Fifth Canadian Field Artillery Unit in World War I, a Liberal MLA and Victoria alderman, and as a lawyer before being appointed a county court judge in 1952. He was Chair of the Victoria College Council (1947-63), and guided the College to university status. In January 1962, Clearihue turned the first sod at the construction site of the Clearihue Building, which was the first building on the Gordon head campus. Clearihue was also the first Chancellor of the University of Victoria, and Chair of the Board of Governors (1963-66).
- In Collection:
- 1 black and white photograph
- Lt-Col Pense, D.S.O., M.C., leading his battalion, the 21st Canadian across the Rhine at Bonn, is seen passing the saluting base on the bridge where the Canadian Corps Commander took the salute.
- 50.73438, 7.09549
- Victoria to Vimy First World War Collection
- Accession Number: 1978-027, File: 14.4
- Archival Finding Aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/joseph-badenoch-clearihue-fonds
- Date and publisher based on description in Library and Archives Canada MIKAN database. Metadata by M. Parker. Migration metadata by KD.
- Rights
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