TCS Class of 1931-32

Dana Wilgress, a manager pictured here in 1931, joined TCS just before WW1. His first posting was to Omsk, Siberia where he hoped to sell farm and forestry equipment. When the Canadian Army and a detachment of RCMP were dispatched to Vladivostok late in 1918 to support the allied invasion of the Soviet Union, Wilgress was ordered to find billets for them. He took the Trans-Siberian Railway thither and found the necessary billets, including one in the local jail for Canadian Army Private Raymond Massey (see photo in Massey's autobiography). Wilgress eventually became High Commissioner to London. A copy of his autobiography is available in the DFTAD library (formerly DFAIT).