Governor General Viscount Willingdon Inspecting Cadets 1926
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- Subjects
- 1920s
- Cadets
- Cadet Inspection
- Events
- Friends
- Photographs
- Scope and Contents
- A photo of the Governor General of Canada & Viscount of Willingdon, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, inspecting the SAC cadet corps on November 18, 1926, during their first year at the Aurora campus. Viscount Willingdon served as Governor General of Canada from 1926 to 1931, and before that was Governor of Bombay in India. He was one of the first people to welcome Mahatma Gandhi back from South Africa in 1915, and when he later returned in 1932 he imprisoned Gandhi and 80,000 Indian activists during the Civil Disobedience Movement. Gandhi was later released in 1933.
- Subjects
- 1920s
- Cadets
- Cadet Inspection
- Events
- Friends
- Photographs
- Scope and Contents
- A photo of the Governor General of Canada & Viscount of Willingdon, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, inspecting the SAC cadet corps on November 18, 1926, during their first year at the Aurora campus. Viscount Willingdon served as Governor General of Canada from 1926 to 1931, and before that was Governor of Bombay in India. He was one of the first people to welcome Mahatma Gandhi back from South Africa in 1915, and when he later returned in 1932 he imprisoned Gandhi and 80,000 Indian activists during the Civil Disobedience Movement. Gandhi was later released in 1933.
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