The Halifax Citadel, Portrait of a Military Fortress

 My wife next to a 78th Private. Since the site is run by Parks Canada, both men and women can serve in this unit. And the women were great buddies in our squads. It didn't matter to us who you were, just if you could do the job.

 A 32 pdr gun crew. I'm the gunner on the right, coiling the tackle for the next time we had to pull the gun back.

This volume is an offical souvenir of the Halifax Citadel Regimental Association, of which I was a part in the summer of 1995 and 1996.

 Gunner Roderick D. Redden, 3rd Brigade, Royal Artillery, Halifax Citadel, 1995. 

I picked this up on my trip back home in 2013. Several of the pictures are of members who I served with.

Officer and gunners, Royal Regiment of Artillery, 1889

Royal Artillery detachments continued to be posted in Halifax to serve the large coast defence guns which protected its naval base until 1905. (www.cmhg.gc.ca)