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Offline canadianplumber

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mike this is for your photo book my uncle RCR in italy
« on: July 19, 2009, 12:19:36 AM »


He started as Oxford Rifles and became RCR as a replacement the rest of the pictures all came from the same paper Sept 25 1944 and there is a typo in his name it was Ronald not Donald

























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Re: mike this is for your photo book my uncle RCR in italy
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2009, 10:30:14 AM »
Great stuff, brother! I will get it up throughout the week. 
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Re: mike this is for your photo book my uncle RCR in italy
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2009, 12:03:57 PM »
will try and scan some more of the paper later but its very fragile
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Re: mike this is for your photo book my uncle RCR in italy
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2009, 03:01:39 PM »
Really nice to see these canadian plumber.. i hope you can get them copied [ the paper ones ] before they go to pieces on you.. nice to see they have been saved.. this is a big part of Canadian History , and it is so nice to see it saved for all time..ranrad
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