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With the outbreak of World War I, the University Council appointed a Committee on Military Instruction which authorized the teaching of military science and tactics. A university corps was organized in the fall semester of the 1914-1915 year with 64 students taking extra classes to qualify as officers. On March 1, 1915, the Canadian Officers Training Corps (C.O.T.C.) of the University of Manitoba was established. Eight companies of 60 men of all ranks were formed with Professor E.P. Fetherstonhaugh as captain and adjutant. In 1915, the Western Universities Battalion was formed with the University of Manitoba contributing one company and one platoon. With the introduction of conscription legislation in 1917, military training was made compulsory for all male students. After the First World War, the C.O.T.C. program was reorganized, in 1920, by Lt. Col. N.B. Maclean, but it continued in relative obscurity for almost twenty years.

With the outbreak of World War II, the C.O.T.C. was quickly revitalized and its membership mushroomed, from its peace time level of 150 to 800. The Senate also passed regulations relating to academic credits or bonuses for students who joined the C.O.T.C. By 1942, all male students were once again required to enlist in a compulsory programme of military training. The C.O.T.C. continued the work of military training on a voluntary basis after World War II with new modernized and attractive programmes, but with the return of peace its popularity rapidly declined.

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: Air Force officers at COTC Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of Canadian Air Force officers posted overseas. Left to right: R. Parr; Joyce McKay, posted to London, England; Mrs. C. K. Taylor; and Keith Taylor, posted to Metz, France. This black-and-white photograph depicts the four people attending a COTC Tri-Service Ball.

: COTC member and officers with trophy; A photograph of a COTC member and two officers. One officer is holding a trophy while the other looks on.

: COTC members and jeep at University of Manitoba; A photograph of four COTC members standing next to and looking at the engine of a military jeep parked outside the Administration Building at the University of Manitoba.

: COTC members at Namao air force base; A photograph of COTC staff officers and members at the Namao Canadian Air Force base in Alberta. This black-and-white photograph, taken in the winter of 1962, depicts 13 men standing outdoors next to a plane.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of the resident staff officers of the University of Manitoba COTC and their wives. Left to right: R. J. Burnett, commanding officer; Donaleen Greenfield; F. J. McGilly; Joyce Irwin; F. G. Baxter, and Mrs. F. G. Baxter.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of two men and two women shaking hands at a Tri-Service ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of the commanding officers of the University ROTC and their wives. Left to right: Ruth Bellan, Ruben C. Bellan, Mary Bennett, Lawrence Bennett, Rosa Robinson, and Arthur G. Robinson.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people seated on couches and talking at a Tri-Service Ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people walking around a buffet table at a Tri-Service Ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people greeting each other at a Tri-Service Ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people walking around a buffet table at a Tri-Service Ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of four unidentified men sitting on couches and smoking at a COTC Tri-Service Ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people greeting each other at a Tri-Service ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people in a receving line at a Tri-Service Ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people in a receving line at a Tri-Service Ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people eating and having conversations at aTri-Service Ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people greeting each other at a Tri-Service Ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people eating and having a conversation at a Tri-Service ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people greeting each other at a Tri-Service ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people in a receiving line at a Tri-Service Ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people standing in a receiving line at a Tri-Service Ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people greeting each other at a Tri-Service Ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people greeting each other at a Tri-Service Ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people shaking hands at a Tri-Service ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people shaking hands at a Tri-Service ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people walking around a buffet table at a Tri-Service Ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people walking around a buffet table at a Tri-Service Ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people walking around a buffet table at a Tri-Service Ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people walking around a buffet table at a Tri-Service Ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of six students at a Tri-Service Ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of four unidentified men sitting on couches and smoking at a COTC Tri-Service Ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of a man and woman shaking hands at a Tri-Service ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people greeting each other at a Tri-Service ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people greeting each other at a Tri-Service ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people greeting each other at a Tri-Service ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people greeting each other at a Tri-Service Ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people in a receiving line at a Tri-Service Ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people shaking hands at a Tri-Service ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of people at a Tri-Service Ball.

: COTC members at Tri-Service Ball; A photograph of young COTC members greeting officers and their wives in a receiving line at a Tri-Service Ball.

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