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Location Category ID:
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8000
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Address: |
27 Ram Street, Borden, L0M 1C0 (Physical)
P.O. Box 1000, Station Main, Borden, L0M 1C0 (Postal)
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Telephone: |
705-423 3531
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Email: |
beaton.sl [at] forces.gc.ca (Replace [at] with @)
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Opening Times: |
0900-1200 and 1300-1500 weekdays, 1300 to 1600 weekends. Closed Mondays or the day following a long weekend, Christmas week and Easter. Free admission.
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Official Website: |
Base Borden Military Museum
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Other Links: |
The Star: Borden
Mrclark Gallery
GRB_Ott Gallery
YouTube
Wikipedia: Borden Museum
Canadian Encylopedia: Worthington
Wikipedia: Worthington
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Latitude, Longitude: |
44.28932918
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-79.89395141
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Location Accuracy: |
7
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Tanks Previously Here: |
1: Panther Tank - Canadian War Museum, LeBreton Flats, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (Until 2005)
2: M1917 Six-Ton Light Tank - Canadian War Museum, LeBreton Flats, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (Training 1940 – ca 1943)
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The Base Borden Military Museum is one of Canada’s largest military museums. The Museum holds a significant collection of WWI, WWII and post-war armoured vehicles, trucks, and aircraft. The Museum tells the story of Camp Borden and the various Schools, Corps and Branches that have their heritage vested at Base Borden. The museum complex consists of several buildings and a memorial park. The main Museum building, on the corner of Dieppe and Waterloo Roads, is a renovated WWII Armoured Corps’ Officers’ Mess. This building details the history of Borden. Major General Worthington Memorial Park, commonly referred to as “Tank Park”, contains some armoured vehicles and artillery pieces from Canada, United States and England, as well as other countries from around the world. These date from WWI to modern Soviet armoured vehicles. Major General Worthington Park, named for the Father of the Armoured Corps is consecrated ground containing two graves and four cenotaphs. It is a quiet area of reflection with benches provided for visitor comfort. (Source: Borden.forces.gc.ca).
Frederic Franklin “Worthy” Worthington was an army officer, engineer, and adventurer. He was born at Peterhead, Scotland, on 14 Sep 1889. Orphaned at 11, he became the ward of a half-brother (later murdered by Villista irregulars) in Mexico, later going to sea and, as a “sailor of fortune”, briefly commanding the tiny Nicaraguan navy in 1907. His earlier life in Mexico led him to sympathize with the ideals of Francisco Madero, for whose cause he fought during the revolution. At the start of WWI, he joined the Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade and was promoted to battery commander in France. He was awarded the Military Medal for actions near Vimy Ridge, on 6 January 1917, for holding his position during a German advance. He was later known to say that until Vimy Ridge he really never felt Canadian, but after Vimy Ridge never felt he was anything but a Canadian. He joined the peacetime Permanent Force of the Armed Forces, developing his doctrine of firepower plus mobility. In WWII, Maj-Gen Worthington founded the Canadian Armoured Corps. Later he was selected to organize, command and take overseas both the 1st Army Tank Brigade and the 4th Canadian Armoured Division. In 1944, he returned to command Camp Borden, training replacements for the Armoured Corps and the Infantry, as well as the Royal Army Service Corps and the Canadian Provost Corps. Resigning his commission in 1947, he was appointed the first civil defence co-ordinator, a position which he held until 1957, stepping down to enter the business community. After Worthington’s death in Ottawa on 8 December 1967 he was buried at Canadian Forces Base Borden according to his wishes. His wife was eventually buried beside him. (Source: Canadian Encylopedia, Wikipedia, Borden.forces.gc.ca).
The Borden military museum was established in the 1990s. In June 2007 a new main building for the museum complex was opened. It has a large hangar for the display of historic military vehicles; unfortunately the interior lighting is dark with a green hue, making photography difficult. The museum has a gift shop that is open during regular weekday hours only.
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Major General Worthington Memorial Park
Most of the tanks in the Borden collection are displayed around Worthington Park, beside the museum. A sign at the entrance reads:
WELCOME TO
MAJOR GENERAL
WORTHINGTON
MEMORIAL PARK
THIS AREA CONTAINS GRAVES,
SPREAD ASHES SITES,
CENOTAPHS AND MEMORIALS.
IT IS CONSECRATED GROUND
PLEASE ACT ACCORDINGLY
FOR THE MILITARY THIS IS AN
ATTENTION AREA |
At the centre of the park is a war memorial consisting of a stone obelisk and a flagpole flanked by two Stuart tanks. Below it on a grass slope is written in stone “WORTHINGTON PARK”. On it there is an RCAC symbol, a small plaque that reads “KOREA 1950 – 1953” and a large plaque that reads:
DEDICATED TO
THE PROUD MEMORY OF ALL
THE ROYAL CANADIAN ARMOURED CORPS
PERSONNEL WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
FOR CANADA
AND THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM
IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
1939 – 1945 |
The Park also contains the grave site of Major General F.F. Worthington, a Royal Canadian Regiment Korea memorial, and a recent memorial to post-war RCAC members (including casualties on UN and ISAF operations).
| Location ID: | 8002 | | Latitude, Longitude: | 44.2872018, -79.89141404 | | Location Accuracy: | 7 |
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Unique ID: |
210
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Other Identification: |
“19 35437 3507”, “H17 98”, “06998”? and “98” stamped into left transmission cover. “1659 ?7495 54 9 ?9 W8 105”? stamped into left turret side.
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Unique ID: |
247
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Serial Number: |
321: “75 321 042/75/12” stamped into lower glacis.
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Unique ID: |
2411
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Serial Number: |
13 (shop number, source: A. Adams).
173?: “1 73”? stamped into top of centre transmission cover.
1282 (left transmission cover): “1282” cast into left transmission cover.
1595 (right transmission cover): “1595” cast into right transmission cover.
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“AMY” painted on turret sides.
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Other Identification: |
“1055” stamped into left and right transmission covers. “E1231 OSF” cast into left transmission cover. “E4151 OSF” cast into right transmission cover. “D68454” cast into mantlet. “B2087” cast into gun clamp bracket.
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This Grizzly is fitted with a rear turret stowage box and cradle, and has a plaque or label fixed on the centre transmission cover.
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Unique ID: |
2412
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Serial Number: |
5072: “5072” stamped into front and rear tow lugs.
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“HOWARD” painted on turret sides.
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Other Identification: |
“D50993 Lo [C]” and “A56?” cast into left transmission cover. “E4151 [G]” and “A78” cast into right transmission cover.
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5) T-34-85 Tank
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Soviet / Polish
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Unique ID: |
2418
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Serial Number: |
12156447: “12156447” stamped into lower glacis.
281 (turret): “281” cast into rear left turret side.
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Other Identification: |
Grid marking stamped into lower glacis. Painted overall in a green and black camouflage scheme.
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This T-34 appears to be of Polish manufacture.
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Unique ID: |
2415
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18: “NO 18” stamped into lower left glacis.
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Other Identification: |
“FV260257” and “FV260258” stamped into left side stowage boxes.
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Unique ID: |
2416
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“MACDONALD” painted on turret sides.
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“BI402”?, “7772”? and “?07”? stamped into hull rear.
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Museum Display Area
| Location ID: | 8004 | | Latitude, Longitude: | 44.28604783, -79.89293217 | | Location Accuracy: | 8 |
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Unique ID: |
2407
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15092: “15092” stamped into lower right glacis.
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“MILNER” painted on turret sides.
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Unique ID: |
2410
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Serial Number: |
64985: “64985” stamped into rear tow lugs. “S64985” stamped into left and right of transmission cover
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“BELL” painted on turret sides.
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“M4A2 SHERMAN...” label fixed to glacis. “16620” stamped into right of transmission cover. “W2103” stamped into forward left hull side. “7?647A SJ204211 465 27” stamped into forward right hull side. General Steel emblem cast into turret rear.
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Unique ID: |
2413
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“FOX” painted on turret sides.
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“?796T ?SC” cast into left turret side. “512226” cast into mantlet.
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This Centurion is missing its smoke grenade dischargers.
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Museum Storage
| Location ID: | 8008 | | Latitude, Longitude: | 0, 0 | | Location Accuracy: | 0 |
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Unique ID: |
2417
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Serial Number: |
167 (shop number, source: A. Adams).
1168: “3 1168” stamped into upper right glacis.
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“GUTKNECHT” painted on turret sides.
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Other Identification: |
“RAM...” label fixed to glacis. “271” stamped into left transmission cover. “264 221A” stamped into right transmission cover. “A1100” and “E1231 [G]1” cast into left transmission cover. “RH E1230S” cast into right transmission cover. “D2038-1 [D]” cast into side doors. “201” cast into right door. “12” cast into left door. “163” cast into MG cupola.
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This Ram is an early production example of the Mark II (with MG cupola and sponson doors). It had been displayed in Worthington Park but was missing in March 2013 (source: B. Clark/AFVNDB).
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Supply Training Group HQ
This location is at the intersection of Cambrai Road and El Alamein Road, opposite the headquarters building of the Canadian Forces Supply Training Group.
| Location ID: | 8014 | | Latitude, Longitude: | 44.28927542, -79.89674091 | | Location Accuracy: | 10 |
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Unique ID: |
2430
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Serial Number: |
400: “SERIAL NO 400” stamped into lower right glacis.
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“T408” stamped into forward left hull side. “S6175611 36811” stamped into bow MG mount. “D60542” stamped into top of glacis. “GSG1756-1 36811” stamped into top of glacis and hull. “56615 GSG1855-1 40231”? stamped into hull rear. “D76169 8061750-1” stamped into left turret side. Other numbers stamped into hatch surrounds and idler mounts, and cast into engine decks.
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CANEX
This location is at the intersection of Dieppe Road and El Alamein Road.
| Location ID: | 8016 | | Latitude, Longitude: | 44.29069428, -79.89149853 | | Location Accuracy: | 10 |
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Unique ID: |
2431
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G08WT3202: “G 08WT 3202 90” stamped into lower glacis and into a small plate fixed to lower glacis.
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Grid marking stamped into lower glacis. Painted overall in a green and black camouflage scheme.
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This T-72 is displayed on a concrete pad on the grass near the Canadian Forces Exchange System (CANEX). It is equipped with a self-entrenching blade.
It was built in August 1977 at Nizhny Tagil (source: L. Delsing/AFVNDB). It was one of a few ex-DDR T-72s that came to Canada in the mid-1990s; when they arrived they came painted in Khaki Brown and some had vehicle kit still inside (source: recceboy/AFVNDB). It has a brass plate that says it is an East German T-72; it has since been painted in gloss green and is missing the tow rope and canvas mantlet cover as well as other small components (source: B. Clark/AFVNDB).
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Dieppe Road
| Location ID: | 8018 | | Latitude, Longitude: | 44.30413713, -79.89234209 | | Location Accuracy: | 10 |
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Unique ID: |
2432
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MHY A30 ZMS: “MHYA30ZMS” stamped into lower glacis.
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“??-55” and unit insignia faintly visible painted on turret sides. Grid marking stamped into lower glacis. Painted overall in a green and black camouflage scheme.
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This T-55 is displayed on a concrete pad beside Dieppe Road, near the northern intersection with Tank Road. The ‘Z’ and ‘MS’ characters in its serial number indicate it was built in the month of December and the year 1980 respectively (source: L. Delsing).
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