LCol Alfred M. Cosby – oil painting

Commanding Officer 1898 – 1900. Alfred Morgan Cosby was Canadian born the eldest son of John Cosby of Pelham, County Welland, Ontario on 11 September, 1838. He was educated in Toronto, and joined the Bank of Toronto in 1861 becoming manager of the branch at Port Hope. In 1876 he became managing director of the […]

LCol John Irvine Davidson, oil painting

This 1910 oil painting by E. Wyly Grier hangs in the Officers’ Mess. Lieutenant-Colonel John Irvine Davidson was gazetted (provisionally) the first Commanding Officer on 20 November 1891 and formally confirmed 25 March 1892. In the military he began as a private in Scotland, serving a total of  five years in the 7th Aberdeenshire Volunteers, […]