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1.1 WHO ARE THESE MEN*?

THIS is a question we Swiss Guards ask ourselves, sometimes, in the wake of important events such as swearing in. Thankfully, Tumblr URL effemar has made a very helpful diagram about a regiment on the seas much like our own, and with that as our guide, we would like to present to you (most) of our troops.

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“Just Had To See His Sweetheart,” Toronto Star. March 30, 1932. Page 1. ---- Man Who Escaped at Burwash Gets Penitentiary --- Special to The Star Sudbury, March 30. - Pleading guilty to escaping from Burwash Industrial Farm on Monday, Percy Greenwood told court he did not wish to stay at Burwash and felt an irresistible urge to see his sweetheart.

‘I’d rather go to Kingston, where I could learn a trade. You cannot get education down there. All you learn is to chop and saw,’ he said.

‘That’s an accomplishment,’ said Magistrate J. S. McKessock. ‘But if you want to go to Kingston, all right. Two years.’

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“‘Seeing’ His Girl Got Him Jail Term,” North Bay Nugget. March 30, 1932. Page 17. ---- Percy Greenwood Who Walked Off From Burwash Was Caught in Sudbury --- Sudbury, March 30.— (Special)— Longing to see his girl again brought Percy Greenwood, who escaped from Burwash Industrial Farm, Monday morning, back to Sudbury where he was arrested at 1.15 o’clock this morning by Sergeant Leo Campeau of the Canadian National Railways yards here. In police court, this morning he pleaded guilty to escaping from custody and was sentenced to two years in Kingston penitentiary. 

"I never want to go back to Burwash again," Greenwood told the court. 'I want to go to Kingston, where I can learn a trade. All you can learn at Burwash is how to use an axe and saw.” 

On December 22, 193,1 Greenwood and two companions were sentenced by Judge Edmund Proulx in district criminal court to 11 months determinate and two year indeterminate in Burwash for three thefts. On February 25, 1932 he was brought back to Sudbury to stand trial with two other companions on a charge of theft and an additional three months was added to the determinate period. Greenwood wee believed to have been the brains of a gang which perpetrated a series of burglaries and thefts in Sudbury between March and October last year. 

Greenwood was working on a highway construction gang at Burwash and walked off into the bush while the attention of the guards was not on him.

[AL: Greenwood was in fact married, 24, with four previous terms in Burwash, one at Mimico, and a prior penitentiary term dating back to 1927-28. At Kingston Penitentiary this time around, he was convict #2580. He worked as a cleaner in the Dome that connected the cell blocks. He found Kingston much wanting in comparison, as cigarettes and entertainment and sports existed at the provincial reformatories (aside from Burwash) that he had been at. He complained especially of seeing one of the officer hitting a German-speaking prisoner, and condemned the guards for “talking to everybody as if they were not men at all, but as if they were dogs.” He knew one of the guards, Duffy, read the letters and mail of prisoners. He supported the riot in October 1932, helping to interfere with the lock-up along with dozens of other prisoners. Greenwood stayed at Kingston until January 1934, when he was returned to Burwash to finish the remainder of his provincial time.]