uk666 5,298 Report post Posted October 18, 2018 Wait For Me Daddy ‘Wait For Me Daddy,’ by Claude P. Dettloff in New Westminster, Canada, October 1, 1940 Wait for Me, Daddy is a photo taken by Claude P. Dettloff on October 1, 1940, of The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles) marching down Eighth Street at the Columbia Street intersection, New Westminster, Canada. While Dettloff was taking the photo, Warren "Whitey" Bernard ran away from his mother to his father, Private Jack Bernard. The picture received extensive exposure and was used in war-bond drives. For a long time, the photograph was forgotten. It started to resurface on Remembrance Day in the mid-60s, and is often mentioned in the context of Canada’s most popular pictures. The city of New Westminster picked up on the fact that it was taken there and last month unveiled a bronze statue of it as a memorial. Commissioned by the City of New Westminster, Wait for Me Daddy is a war memorial based on The Vancouver Province photographer Claude P. Dettloff’s iconic 1940s photograph, Wait for Me Daddy. Father and son after the war was over. Whitey’s dad survived the European theatre and came home in October 1945. Whitey grew up and moved to Tofino and met and married his wife Ruby in 1964. His wife Ruby, fondly recalls that she had actually known her husband for years. Whitey’s photo “was hung in every school in British Columbia. during the war”, she said. “I saw him years and years before we actually met”. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
