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Thomas Joseph Aherne fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 138
  • Fonds
  • 1968-1996, 2017

The fonds consists of Tom Aherne’s service records, certificates, newsclippings, and photographs documenting his military service and personal life, manuals and precis used in his military training, and collected newsletters.

Aherne, Thomas Joseph

Gilbert Candy fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 14, C40-6.2
  • Fonds
  • 1914-2002

The fonds contains diaries, photographs, service records, letters and biographical information of Gilbert Candy.

Candy, Gilbert

Gordon Appelbe Smith fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 15
  • Fonds
  • 1942-2016

The fonds contains 8 photographs of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry officers prior to inspection by Lady Patricia Ramsay at Seaford, Sussex England and prior to embarking for Sicily in June 1943. Also included are 2 photographs of Lieutenant Gordon Smith wounded in Sicily, 2 of him sketching and resting during a bivouac, one of his friend Capt. George Corkett; an obituary of Rowan Coleman; a 1996 photocopy of regimental history pages which mention Gordon Smith; and 3 messages delivered to Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry while enroute to and after landing in Sicily, June/July 1943. Includes 4 photographs of wartime paintings, an autobiographical sketch, and a reminiscence on the invasion of Sicily. Includes 2 photos of him at work in his art studio in his late 90s; and obituaries written after his death.

Harro Sten Bloom fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 16
  • Fonds
  • 1914, 1960-1998

The fonds contains photographs covering a wide variety of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Regimental activities including the presentation of the Ric-A-Dam-Doo, 1914; the Regimental Hockey Team, 1960/1961; N.W. Europe Depot Platoon Graduation, 1961 and 1962; Junior NCO School, 1961; Parachute Training 1960-1962; Farewell to Victoria, 1963; First Battalion Officers in Germany and Honour Guard, 1964; Wreath of Laurel presentation, 1964; Regimental Ski Team; Regimental Mascot Lloyd George; officers, 1966; KapYong Parade, 1975; Officers' Mess Dinner, 1969, 1974 and 1976; and the PPCLI Association annual meeting, Ottawa, 1998. The textual material includes Second Battalion Routine Orders, 1958-1959; the Second Battalion Tattoo Programme, 1976; a Vox Pat Newsletter, June 1956; newsclippings of the Colonel-In-Chief and Troopings, 1974 and 1983; and a pamphlet featuring a reproduction of the official Year of the Veteran illustration, 2005.

Bloom, Harro Sten

Geof Crossman fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 18
  • Fonds
  • 1976-1999

The fonds contains Geof Crossman's obituaries; 2 photographs of him at the Canadian Airborne Centre, 1987, 3 photographs of the Regimental Museum Staff, 1998, 3 photographs of Warrant Officer Crossman at the Military Collectors Club and Gun Show at the Mayfield Hotel August 1998 and 5 photographs of his retirement party. Textual records include 63 various Canadian Army training manuals, booklets, handouts and binders on parachute procedures, weapons, mines and vehicle identification, an Airborne Association Kitshop catalogue and the Warrant Officer's and Sergeant's Mess By-laws, 1994. Also included are 13 maps of Canadian Forces Bases and training areas and 1 Croatia battle map.

Crossman, Geof

John Henry Richardson fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 19
  • Fonds
  • 1939 - 2009

The John Henry Richardson fonds covers two distinct periods, his military service and his activities with veterans’ tributes and Korea pilgrimages after his service. He kept extensive news clippings for the time of his service in Korea and through the 1950s, as well as numerous well-labeled photographs from this period. He also kept key service files that provide an outline of his career progression including courses taken and qualifications earned, as well as dates of service. CWO Richardson collected a number of records from Korean pilgrimages in the 1980s and 1990s and veterans’ reunions. He also kept articles and scrapbooks/copied stories concerning his military peers. The fonds also includes a scrapbook/diary possibly kept by a family member documenting the early years of the Second World War.

Richardson, John Henry

John Henry Richardson Military Service series

CWO Richardson kept extensive news clippings for the time of his service in Korea and through the 1950s, as well as numerous well-labeled photographs from this period. He also kept key service files that provide an outline of his career progression including courses taken and qualifications earned, as well as dates of service. The series includes stories and articles on other soldiers, including Jack LaChance and Bob Coulter. Items of note include telegraphs notifying his mother of his being wounded, newsclippings on the DCM award, and original letters from his time in hospital.

John Henry Richardson

Jean Pariseau fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 22
  • Fonds
  • 1943-1995

The fonds contains collected photos of Pariseau with captions (ca. 1983), extracts from his autobiography (ca. 1983), souvenirs from his Order of Canada investiture (1990) and the pre-publication edition of his autobiography "Just Another Patricia: A Canadian's Story" (1995).

Pariseau, Jean

John Graham Wallace Mills fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 23
  • Fonds
  • 1942-1995

The fonds contains Wally Mills's obituary and elegy, military certificates and Military Cross citation (1943-1969), Israeli driver's licence (1969), song sheets, regulation manuals, trooping programmes and 98 photographs chronicling Mills's military service. The photographs include some images of Lance Corporal Mills in England in 1942, the Second Battalion in Germany 1953-1955, Recruit Classes from May 1964 to February 1967 and group photographs of the staff at the Canadian Joint Air Training Centre from c1959 to 1966. Also included are a collection of photographs of an overseas United Nations tour, probably Pakistan. Includes a hand-made poster presented upon his retirement from Edmonton Public School Board (1984).

Mills, John Graham Wallace

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