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Frezenberg research collection

  • PPCLI Collection 134
  • Collection
  • [Photocopied ca. 2000-ca. 2014 (originally created 1915-1995)]

The collection consists of photocopies of maps and descriptions of the Battle of Frezenberg, a part of the 2nd Battle of Ypres, in which PPCLI suffered many casualties. Includes extracts from the PPCLI war diary, and from published books by Jeffery Williams, Ralph Hodder-Williams, and Sir Max Aitken.

Friendly fire incident (2002) collection

  • PPCLI Collection 93
  • Collection
  • 2002 - 2005

The Tarnak Farm incident, more familiarly known in Canada as "the friendly fire incident", occurred on April 17, 2002 near Kandahar, Afghanistan during Operation Apollo. The 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Battle Group (3PPCLIBG) was conducting night-time anti-tank and machine gun firing exercises, which were mistaken for enemy fire by U.S. Air National Guard fighter jet pilots. The pilots attacked, killing Canadian soldiers Marc Leger, Ainsworth Dyer, Richard Green, and Nathan Smith, and injuring at least eight others. They were the first Canadian casualties of the Afghanistan War, and the incident generated a massive public response. The collection consists of news clippings; printouts of online news stories; TV news clips; scrapbooks of news clippings; messages of condolence received by PPCLI in the form of email messages, condolence books, letters, and sympathy cards; eulogies of the deceased soldiers; and the contents of an album of photographs and memorabilia from Marley Leger's visit to Bosnia.

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry

Gary D. Hunt fonds

  • PPCLI C60-16.3
  • Fonds
  • 1971

The first 3 pages of the album contain photographs and a newsclipping on winter training in Camp Dundurn, Saskatchewan. The remainder of the album documents 1PPCLI's 1971 rotation as part of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus. Consists mostly of Canadian Armed Forces photographs of soldiers on patrol, interacting with other peacekeeping forces, in ceremonial events, in athletic contests, and in recreational activities. Includes a pamphlet: 1 PPCLI : a guide for Canadian Forces personnel on duty with the United Nations in Cyprus, Apr-Sep 1971. Includes a map of Cyprus. Includes a program: Canada Day, 1 July 1971, Cyprus : a feu de joie on Canada's national day by First Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, United Nations Force Cyprus.

Hunt, Gary D.

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

George Cecil Carvell fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 40
  • Fonds
  • 1914-1923

The fonds consists of a scrapbook maintained by George Cecil Carvell, including correspondence with his fiancee Eleanor Coates and others, military papers, excerpt from newsletter published aboard the RMS Royal George, souvenirs of restaurants and entertainment events, demographic statistics on PPCLI, photographs, newsclippings, correspondence with the Toronto Star about conditions in China.

Carvell, George Cecil

George Fraser Smith fonds

  • Fonds 111
  • Fonds
  • 1950 - 2004

The fonds consists of photographs documenting George Smith's military career, most of them from the Korean War (1950-1953); a scrapbook documenting his post-1950 military career, including 2PPCLI newsletters (1950-1957), newsclippings (1951-1982), programs for ceremonial events, autographs, North Korean propaganda, Japanese currency, and materials from PPCLI veterans' reunions (1964, 1976); a card autographed by veterans of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment; 17 scrapbooks of newsclippings of military news and opinion, mostly from Calgary newspapers (1963-1996); and one file of loose newsclippings (1995-1996).

Smith, George Fraser

George S. Currie fonds

  • PPCLI C220-2.1, C220-2.2, Coll. 1 file 31(15)-3, Coll. 1 files 31(21)-15
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1890]-1969

The fonds consists predominantly of two scrapbooks, containing portraits, snapshots, newsclippings, letters, speeches, and souvenirs documenting George S. Currie's military, professional, business, civic, and civil service careers, and his family and social life. Also included is a copy of the McGill Daily (3 November 1916) containing news of the achievements and casualties of McGill men serving overseas; the certificate of his investiture in the Order of St. Michael and St. George, a caricature of "Little George", samples of safe conduct passes issued by the Allied forces ca. 1945. Items in Collection 1, file 31(15)-3 include his commission, correspondence, invitations and dance cards. Items in Collection 1, files 31(21)-15 include correspondence, speeches , diary (1941), officer's record of service book.

Currie, George Selkirk

George Skelly fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 132
  • Fonds
  • 1951-1952

The fonds consists of two copies of a newsclipping about George Skelly's return home to Winnipeg in 1952; two collected books of First World War cartoons by Bruce Barnsfather, Fragments from France and More Fragments from France; an album of photographs of Skelly's experiences in the Korean War, 1951-1952; and 87 loose photographs of the Korean War.

Skelly, George Alfred

George Wilkinson fonds

  • PPCLI 98.60
  • Fonds
  • 1937-1939

The fonds contains the training precis' and exam papers of George Wilkinson at the Royal Canadian School of Infantry 1937-1939.

Wilkinson, George

Gerald Wallace Guiou fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 85
  • Fonds
  • 1915-1985

The fonds contains a fragment of a manual for the Orillax trench lamp; 7 group photographs of officers of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry taken in May 1918; an original programme of the command performance of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Comedy Company; 1 regimental Christmas card (1918); 4 Patricia Club newsletters (1970-1971); and the book "Transfusion: A Canadian Surgeon's Story in War and Peace" (1985). Also included are photocopies of Guiou's paybook and photographs of the 3rd University Company, portrait of Lieutenant Guiou (ca. 1917); and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Band on parade with Guiou holding the Ric-A-Dam-Doo (1919).

Guiou, Gerald Wallace

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