Quick, Norman Clarence

Norman Clarence Quick was born in Toronto, Ontario on April 22, 1921. As a youth, Norm carried camera equipment for his father, Charles James Quick.

Norm’s father, worked in the 1920s with the the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau and was involved in the production of the well-known feature film “Carry On Sergeant” in 1927.

Landing in Britain in December 1942, Norm served at the Alton Convalescent Hospital before getting orders to join the Canadian Army Film & Photo Unit (CFPU) in London.

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Remembering ‘Stormin’ Norman (Norman C. Quick, CSC; 1921-2013)

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RANK: SGT.

DUTIES: COMBAT CAMERAMAN

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BRANCH: ARMY

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Dale Gervais has been actively researching and documenting the history of the Canadian Film & Photo Unit since 2006. Dale recently retired in September, 2018, after over 36 years with Library & Archives Canada. Dale now works as an independent researcher, with experience in audio visual holdings, video production and more recently doing Archival textual document searches, and photographic scanning.

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