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EAD of the Royal Canadian

Mounted Police in British Co-

lumbia is Charles Edward
Rivett-Carnac, who came from Sas-
katchewan in March to take over
command of “E” Division of the
R.C.M.P., the largest division in the
Force.

Mr. Rivett-Carnac is a man of
much and varied experience and a
man that British Columbia can be
proud to have as head of its police.
He served with the French army in
the First World War at the age of 16,
worked in the steaming jungles of
Central India and served as a police-
man in the frozen north for many
years.

He married Mary Dillon-Ware,
daughter of Col. F. B. Ware, D.S.O.,
London, Ont., and took her to the
Western Arctic as a bride. She won
the distinction of being one of the
first white women to give birth to a
child in the Arctic. Beverley, the
daughter born in the Arctic, is now
18 and 11-year-old Mary Frances com-
pletes the happy family of B.C.’s new
Mountie chief.

Following the 1914-18 war, Mr.
Rivett-Carnac went to India and was
there for three and a half years. He
first bossed elephant camps transport-
ing lumber from the jungles. At the
age of 21, he became manager of one
of the biggest lime manufacturing
concerns in Central India and served
at the firm’s Calcutta headquarters for
a year before moving to Canada in
1923.

Arriving in this country, he joined
the R.C.M.P. at Ottawa and shortly
after was transferred to the Mackenzie
River in Northern Canada for duty.

Promoted to corporal after being
transferred to Regina subsequent to
a short period spent in British Co-
lumbia, Mr. Rivett-Carnac was again

_ Switched north for duty in the Yukon

Assistant Commissioner C. E. Rivett-Carcnac

in 1928 and in 1931 was promoted to
the rank of inspector.

Adjutant of Training Division

The promotion brought a transfer
back to Regina to be adjutant of the
training division. His marriage fol-
lowed and then a switch to the West-
ern Arctic for a three-year tour of
duty and back to Ottawa to take
charge of intelligence until 1939.

During the year of the start of the
Second World War, the assistant com-
missioner was transferred to Sas-
katchewan.

THE SHOULDER STRAP — TWENTY-THIRD EDITION

Then, following a tour of duty at
Winnipeg, back to Ottawa for in-
telligence work and serving as assist-
ant director of criminal investigation.
In 1947 he was promoted to the rank
of assistant commissioner to take over
command of the Saskatchewan divi-
sion and held that post until his re-
cent change in command.

In British Columbia he succeeded
Assistant Commissioner Alan T.
Belcher, who organized the R.C.M.P.
in British Columbia after the amalga-
mation with the provincial force.

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