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Winnipeg Free Press Archives Winnipeg WWII Home Front September 23, 1940 Soldiers salute the Red Cross Helping the Canadian Red Cross society in its urgent appeal for $5,000,000 to carry on its essential work, some 500 soldiers stationed at the infantry training centre. Fort Osborne barracks, paraded through downtown Winnipeg, Monday. Here a detachment is shown marching along Portage Avenue.