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CA MHM 2014.22.105 · File · 1916 - 1961
Part of Brigadier-General Raymond Brutinel fonds

This file consists of certificates and correspondence of the various decorations and distinctions Brutinel received related to his World War I and World War II service, as well as civic honours. The military decorations and awards include: nine citations between 1916-1919; the Order of St Michael and St George (1918); Officier de la Legion d’Honneur (1918); Order of St Maurice and Lazarus (1918); Order of the Bath (1919); Commandeur de la Legion d’Honneur (1926); Croix D'Officier du Merite Agricole (1947); Medaille de la Recconnaissance Francaise (1952). Brutinel also received lifetime membership to the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Fifty-Year club in 1961.

CA MHM 2014.22.02 · Item · 11 Nov. 1919
Part of Brigadier-General Raymond Brutinel fonds

This photograph depicts Brutinel in military uniform seated with four members of his Machine Gun Brigade standing behind him. From left to right: Captain J.K. Lawson, Major J.D. Foster, Captain M.R. Lever (Marshall), and Lieutenant P.M. Hume. An inscription on the photograph reads "G.O.C. Canadian Machine Gun and Staff--11th Nov"

CA MHM 2014.22.05 · Item · ca. 1919
Part of Brigadier-General Raymond Brutinel fonds

This photograph depicts the commemoration plaques in the Chateau Laurier, Ottawa. On the top of the plaque, there is a circular relief of Brutinel and a relief showing Canadian machine guns on Vimy Ridge. The plaque commemorates the Canadian Machine Gun Corps commanded by Brigadier-General R. Brutinel, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., and the memory of the members of the Canadian Machine Gun Corps who died on active service and in honour of those who served 1914-1919. A smaller plaque underneath reads "In the Chateau Laurier, the Canadian Machine Gun Corps had its beginning--Here in August 1914, Major Raymond Brutinel enrolled the first recruits for the Corps."

La Hutte
File · 30 Nov. 1926, 1964 - 1965
Part of Brigadier-General Raymond Brutinel fonds

This file consists of interior and exterior photographs of the villa, La Hutte, taken in 1926. Brutinel and his family lived in this villa at Rue de Fontaines in Sevres in 1923. Brutinel named it after the Chateau La Hutte near Armentieres where he had spent time on the front in December 1915. The villa was later sold to the Fagard family. This file also includes three cards: a greeting card annotated by Brutinel, one Christmas card from Madame Fagard from 1965, and a letter of condolence from Madame Fagard to Pierre Brutinel at the death of his father sent on Dec. 23, 1964. This file contains photographs 2014.22.88 to 2014.22.101