Remembering the brave Canadians who have put their lives on the line defending peace and freedom is as important as ever. Yet how we commemorate our Veterans’ service and sacrifice is changing. While monuments and ceremonies will always have their place, we have to evolve our commemorative activities to embrace more digital tools and spaces if we want to truly engage with Canadians.

Join us at 12:00 PM ET on 29 April 2021 for a one-hour virtual panel discussion on the future of commemoration in Canada. This time we will be talking about remembrance in the digital age.

In this issue:

President’s Report
Honours And Awards
D-Day Commemoration
Courses
Retirements
Engineer Crested Clothing
Annual General Meeting
Membership
39 CER Association Contacts

An organizing committee has been struck and planning is well underway for a pilgrimage to Cyprus in November 2024.  The event will coincide with the 50^th Anniversary of the Turkish Invasion of the island in July 1974. 

On 1 April 2021, the Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers welcomes Colonel Ryan Smith as our new Director. Appointed by the Commander of the Canadian Army, Corps Directors provide the Army Chain of Command with critical inputs on personnel management and succession planning, capability development, and occupation advisor functions. The RCE thanks Colonel Kyle Solomon for his three years of dedicated service as the outgoing Director.

In recognition of his exceptional care and compassion in assisting generations of Canadian Veterans to acquire missing medals and awards to which they were entitled, for working with the Last Post Fund in the provision of missing and replacement grave markers and for promoting Canadian military history and continuing to honourably represent the Canadian Military Engineers within his community, Canada and internationally, Corporal Kyle Scott (Ret'd) was presented with the Canadian Military Engineer Branch Commendation.

Update: May 10, 2021

On average, we publish a current Last Post about twice a week. To help you follow the publication of new Last Posts we installed a RSS Feed feature and invited individuals to set up this service. See: https://cmea-agmc.ca/rss-feeds-now-available.