10 March, 2021
This magnificent portrait was commissioned and painted in 1990. It is to be displayed in the Musuem of the Regiments when it is fully opened.
Mark [Tennant] is a true westerner having been born in Winnipeg in 1913. He grew up in Lethbridge where he received his education and where he first joined the Canadian Army as a militia artilleryman in 1930.
When war was imminent in 1939 he managed to move from the Lethbridge RCA Battery which was not slated to go overseas immediately, to the Calgary Highlanders who were among the first units mobilised for service abroad.
He served throughout the war with the Highlanders, sustaining a number of wounds during the N.W. European Campaign of 1944-45 and was one of the lucky originals who returned to Calgary in 1945.
Among his many other achievements were his years as an Alderman on Calgary City Council ...* and his many years as a member of various Hospital authorities for which services he was admitted as a Serving Brother in the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in 1984.
He is the only member of the Calgary Highlanders to be honoured by the Crown by admission to the Order of Canada when, while serving as Honorary Lieutenant Colonel, he was invested as a Member in the Fall of 1982 ...
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