“Daddy, wait for me too”, the story behind the most famous image of 1940
(9 years ago)Dettloff, on October 1, 1940, while the British Columbia Regiment was marching on the eighth Street at the Columbia Cross in New Westminster, Canada. While Dentloff was shooting some pictures, Warren “Whitey” Bernard left his mother to his father, Jack Bernard. The photograph received extensive exposure and was used in [...]
Dettloff, on October 1, 1940, while the British Columbia Regiment was marching on the eighth Street at the Columbia Cross in New Westminster, Canada.
While Dentloff was shooting some pictures, Warren “Whitey” Bernard left his mother to his father, Jack Bernard.
The photograph received extensive exposure and was used in war - related disks and here is the story behind it. On Saturday, August 26, 1939, Hitler threatened Poland and searched for Danzig. At 4:15 a.m., the Admirative Regiment in British Columbia, Canada, received a call from the Canadian capital, instructing him to call the BC regiment.
Soldiers scattered into the city to keep their risk points.
On September 10, 1939, Canada's Parliament declared war on the German Reich, which had invaded Poland early in the month. While other units were sent to the United Kingdom, the British Regiment of Colombia was left behind on the west coast.
After months of training and guard duty, the regiment was ordered and on October 1, 1940, marched to New Westminster to catch a host ship, SS Joan, at their secret destination.
Starting on the eighth Street in New Westminster, American photographer Claude P. Detloff of The Evince newspaper positioned himself to photograph the entire column marching down the hill. While preparing to take the picture, he saw a little boy in the middle of the street.
Wait for me, and I'm the one screaming at the kid, and his father looks at his five-year-old son, Warren “Bernard, leaving his mother for him.
The photograph captured by Dentloff made headlines all over the world, thus being displayed at any British Columbia school.
When Jack Bernard returned home, Detloff was there to photograph the moment of family reunification, but this reunion was not permanent, since Jack and his wife Bernice Bernard were divorced three years later.
However, the picture of the five-year-old boy became part of history and a bronze statue, carving the baby's image, has been placed on the bottom of the 8th Street, in Hyack Square, exactly where the image, which is considered to be one of the top 10 photos of the 1940s, has been shot.