Series contains files created and collected by Lieutenant Colonel W. Lochead.
The MacCorkindale Fonds includes a collection of Florence Chandler’s letters, diaries, photos, and drawings from the First World War. Included also is a photo album from Catherine Mae MacCorkindale (1923-2012), John and Florence’s daughter, which depicts her service in the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service in the Second World War. Catherine would marry RCAF Flight Lieutenant Allan Harold Bartlett (1922-2005).
The Diggory Fonds contain various personal papers, logbooks, newspaper clippings, photographs, telegrams, correspondence, and service records of Flying Officer Thomas J. Diggory during the Second World War. These Fonds also contain various artifacts, including pilot glasses, a British flag, an Ebel wristwatch, an ink well, cap badges, wings, stripes, dog tags, war medals, RAF buttons, an Air Force Doll, and an RAF Winter Navigator Helmet with radio and oxygen equipment.
to be completed prior to record publication
to be completed prior to record publication
The Mendes Fonds contain various printed and media material related to the research into the development and manufacture of Canadian Army Type Anti-Aircraft Radars from 1939-1946. The Fonds also contain correspondence, research notes, and articles relating to the Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (RCEME), the Auxiliary Territorial Service, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the War Diary of No. 1 Canadian Radio Location Unit, various Anti-Aircraft and Radar histories, and various issues of "Radar Reflections," the newsletter of the Canadian Army Radar Association.
The Operational and Regimental Histories Fonds contains various regimental, operational, battalion, naval, and artillery histories, primarily from the First and Second World Wars.
Letter to Frank of Calgary, Alberta from Pte. Howard Gerrie.
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This series consists of a collection of organizational documents.
The Personal Histories Fonds contain wartime diaries, documents, interviews, articles, postcards, photographs, and histories from various First and Second World War veterans. Included also is a paper by Sidney Allinson about Canada's First Victoria Cross recipient Lt. Alexander Dunn, who received the VC by being apart of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in 1854.
The Insignia Fonds contain various cap, shoulder, and collar badges, pins, tags, medals, and buttons from various Canadian battalions and divisions from the 1840s through until the 1950s. Insignia includes material from the North West Rebellion and the First and Second World Wars.
For a map guide for this G.S.G.S., see McMaster University's WWII Topographical map guides (https://library.mcmaster.ca/maps/ww2/ww2_topos_home).
Series 1 contains Naval award recommendations and ship registries from the First and Second World Wars, as well as documents relating to the German Administration from the Second World War.
Canadian Army Training Pamphlet No. 1
The Beach Fonds contain the papers, letters, photos, memoirs, and diaries of Professor Horace D. Beach from during and after the Second World War, including various papers on education, politics, relationships and sexuality.
Series 1 includes various Associated Press/International News/ACME/Canadian Army Photographs from the Western Front during the Second World War.
Series 1 contains newspaper and journal clippings regarding Japan, the U.S.S.R., and Cold War tensions immediately following the Second World War.
The Air Photo Correspondence Fonds contains various correspondence, maps, indexes, lists, and photos pertaining to LCMSDS's Second World War Canadian Army Air Photo Collection (http://lmharchive.ca/second-world-war-air-photos/).
The Government Correspondence Fonds contains photocopied correspondence relating to the First World War, including " "precautions against raids in Western Canada" by Sir Robert Borden, J. G. Harvey, S. Brown, Edward Mayer, Karl Mayer, Major-General Gwatkin, John Hughes, A. Bowan Perry, A. R. Hamilton, A. Carnegie Ross, and Fred. Shibley, as well as correspondence by Maj. Gen E. L. M. Burns regarding POWs in Hong Kong during and after the Second World War.