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PPCLI colonels-in-chief photo collection

  • PPCLI P11
  • Collection
  • 1910-2017

This collection consists of images of the three individuals who have held the title of Colonel-in-Chief of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI). In the British Commonwealth military tradition, a regiment is theoretically headed by a colonel-in-chief, who is a member of the Royal Family or is otherwise a person of national prominence. Princess Patricia of Connaught, the namesake of PPCLI, was actually appointed Colonel-in-Chief on 22 February 1918. Upon her marriage to Captain Alexander Ramsay in February 1919 she relinquished the title of Princess and was subsequently addressed as Lady Patricia Ramsay. Upon her death in 1974, she was succeeded by her cousin Lady Patricia Brabourne. In 1979 she inherited her father’s estate and became Countess Mountbatten of Burma, but continued to be addressed informally as Lady Patricia. She retired as Colonel-in-Chief in 2007, and was succeeded by the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson.

Individual Files photograph collection

  • PPCLI P400
  • Collection
  • ca. 1910-ca. 2000

The collection consists of formal and informal portraits of individual members of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, filed alphabetically by surname.

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Regimental Museum and Archives

First World War photo collection

  • PPCLI P30
  • Collection
  • 1912 - 1919

This collection consists of photographs of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) activities from the formation of the Regiment on 11 August 1914 to its demobilization from wartime service on 20 March 1919. Includes group portraits, and photos of unidentified individuals.

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Regimental Museum and Archives

Gordon McSpadden Craig fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 137
  • Fonds
  • [Ca. 1913]-1919, [ca. 1960]

The fonds includes Gordon Craig's documents while he was a prisoner of war at Stendal, Germany. Includes an album consisting mostly of postcard photographs of fellow prisoners. Includes a note indicating that Craig was bayonetted while carrying Maj Stanley Jones off the battlefield. Includes a presumed high school graduation portrait of Gordon Craig; and album pages showing Gordon with his friends, and training at Niagara-on-the-Lake with the 1st University Company. Includes a letter, Clifford T. Jones (brother of Maj Stanley L. Jones) to William McSpadden expressing appreciation for Craig's kindness to Stanley Jones while in prison camp.

Craig, Gordon McSpadden

Vilhelm Roger and Ida Schjelderup fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 56
  • Fonds
  • 1913-2014

The fonds contains 4 photographs of headstones at Vormezeele Cemetery near Ypres, Belgium; a souvenir pack of 5 British stamps issued 11 September 1990 and depicting British medals of gallantry; 26 photographs (1913-2014) annotated by Ida Schjelderup, many depicting Hamilton Gault, ca. 1958; and 62 photos of military exercises and recreational activities reflecting Col. Schjelderup's military career (ca. 1944-ca. 1960).

Schjelderup, Vilhelm Roger and Ida

Walter Draycot fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 76
  • Fonds
  • 1914 - 1999

The fonds contains the pay book of Walter Draycot (April 1917 to November 1918), letter attesting to his medical fitness (1914), articles by him, correspondence, 7 original hand drawn Christmas cards, 3 journals containing his scientific articles (1951), 1 program, 5 photographs of the Walter Draycot plaque dedication (1999), and various newsclippings .

Draycot, Walter

PPCLI portraits of COs and RSMs collection

  • PPCLI Collection 75
  • Collection
  • 1914-2006

The collection consists of portraits of Colonels-in-Chief, Colonels of the Regiment, Commanding Officers (COs) and Regimental Sergeants-Major (RSMs) of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, its Battalions, and other units, along with short biographical sketches and tables documenting the dates of change of command.

Frederick Bliss fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 83
  • Fonds
  • 1914-1985

The fonds includes of Frederick Bliss’s service papers, his service records copied from the Library and Archives Canada website, classroom notes, manuals. Includes photographs documenting Bliss’s military career, 1921-1946, and his post-military life.

Bliss, Frederick

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Band photograph collection

  • PPCLI P18
  • Collection
  • 1914-[ca. 1990]

The collection consists of photographs and photonegatives of the PPCLI Band in its various incarnations. Includes a few images of mascots Citation Mike the horse and Mickey the dog, who were associated with the Band.

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. Band

Francis George Young fonds

  • PPCLI Coll. 1, file 31(31)-13
  • Fonds
  • 1914-1954

The fonds contains the 22-page diary of Francis George Young, August 1914 to August 1916 which details his service, wounding and subsequent transfer to various aid stations and finally a military hospital in England. Includes a letter (1954) from his son-in-law to the PPCLI Depot containing some biographical information.

Young, Francis George

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