RED SERGE AND POLAR BEAR PANTS: THE BIOGRAPHY OF HARRY STALLWORTHY, RCMP

摘要

William Barr. 2005. Edmonton: University of Harry Stallworthy of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was one of a handful of exceptional men who, until World War II, were the Canadian government in Canada's far north. Yet they were not commissioned officers. It is hard to imagine any other service in the world in which they would not have been commissioned for the responsibilities they held. Henry Webb Stallworthy was a Gloucestershire man, born in 1895 in a farmhouse in the little village of Winson near Cirencester. His father had been a solicitor with a firm of property managers, before becoming a gentleman farmer, but sadly dying when Harry was only four years old. In 1913, soon after leaving Cirencester Grammar School, the adventurous young Stallworthy left for Canada, ostensibly to visit his two older brothers who were homesteading in southeastern Alberta. Small local jobs occupied him until the following year and the outbreak of World War I. He saw a call for recruits for the Royal Northwest Mounted Police (RNWMP; later the RMCP), and joined up in September 1914 on the expectation of going to the western front with a police contingent, but such plans were cancelled.