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Originally posted by Mark W. Tonner
Pssst...Alex, me thinks maybe you've been watching to much CBC or CTV....Pvt... is the 'American' short form/abbreviation for Private...in 'Canadian', its: Pte...besides, Eddie was a 'Rifleman' or Rfn......
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Mark...
Thanks for pointing that out...Me...I was a blue job...AC2..AC1..L.A.C.....Corporal..Sgt..WO...
No Disrespect meant,but I thought there were Privates in the Canadian Army...When we really had and Army ,Navy and Royal Canadian Air Force...Pre 1966...A pox on Paul Hellyer...
Here is the guy that did this to us and now he wants to fix it..
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