David Rendall Kilcup

Divisions Served: “E,” “O,” “HQ,” “Depot”

Medals & Honours: Long Service Medal, 125th Anniversary Confederation of Canada Medal

Pillar Location: This Nameplate has not yet been mounted onto the Pillars, but is on display in the Centre in the interim.

Story: 

I Began training January 05, 1960. At the conclusion of second part in September, our troop was transported to the Cypress Hills in Saskatchewan, together with our horses for six weeks. We lived in tents, broke ice to shave in the morning, ate Kentucky Fried chicken and rode our horses in Mounted Police uniforms from the 1800’s for a Hollywood movie called “The Canadians”. The movie depicted “Sitting Bull’s arrival in Canada after the battle of the Little Big Horn.”H” Troop departed Regina in early November, 1960 for our first postings. My career consisted of general detachment duties, forensic identification duties, academic instructing duty, university training. Command positions at management service unit, police operations at Kelowna Detachment and Toronto International Pearson Airport in Mississauga, Ontario. 

I can honestly say that I would do the same service if I had my life to do over, I loved my service as a Mounted Policeman and the caliber of men, the loyalty and “esprit de corps that existed in the 1960′ s and 1970′ s.