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The fonds includes programs, newsclippings, speeches, correspondence, nominal rolls, and photographs documenting Rod Middleton's military service and his activities in the PPCLI and Korea veterans' organizations. Includes his obituary and a biographical sketch, his reminiscences of the Korean War, including a reminiscence, "24 Hours in the Life of a Soldier". Includes documents, newsletters, and correspondence of the PPCLI Association and the Korea Veterans' Association. Includes correspondence, minutes, plans and reports regarding the PPCLI Museum, particularly the Hall of Honour and the Chapel of Remembrance, and the PPCLI Heritage Committee. Includes correspondence regarding planning and staging of events, Frezenberg anniversary (1985), Kapyong anniversaries (1976, 2001), Queen's visit (2005). Includes collected information on specific historical subjects, including Pte Harry Cochran, Sgt George Ross Thompson, the Battle of Kapyong, the Battle of Medak Pocket and Currie Barracks, and Work Point Barracks.

The fonds includes photographs documenting C.S. Shawcross's experiences with the 3rd Battalion of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry in Korea, and prior to his deployment. Includes images 3PPCLI's voyage to Korea, Korean landscapes, life in the PPCLI camp. Includes identified images of Capt. Gordon Seller, Herb Pitts, Peter Worthington, Jock Mackie, Prest, "Scoachy" Lee, CQMS E.P. "Boy" Shaw, New Brunswick Hospital, broom-i-loo, The Hook. Also includes 7 images of Shawcross, ca. 1940-1952, from the PPCLI Archives collections.

The fonds consists of 6 scrapbooks containing newsclippings about the Second World War, and postcards, greeting cards, and letters from soldiers who frequented Welsh's Hamburgers. Includes a few photographs and other memorabilia.

The fonds includes 2 portraits of Brigadier Colquhoun, and a portfolio of 20 photographs of the V-E Day and V-J Day parades at Debert Camp, Nova Scotia, 1945. Includes a résumé of Colquhoun's military service (1906-1937) and two newsclippings about him. The scrapbook, which may have been compiled by Mrs. Colquhoun, contains 128 photographs reflecting his military service in England; at Debert Camp, Nova Scotia; at Camp Nanaimo; at Vernon Camp; and at Camp Wainwright. It includes souvenirs of King George's visit to the 1st Canadian Division (24 January 1940) and the inspection by Lady Patricia Ramsay (10 February 1940). It includes newsclippings about the London Blitz; the PPCLI Women's Auxiliary; Debert Camp, Camp Nanaimo, and Vernon Camp; PPCLI operations in Sicily and Italy; and about individual PPCLI soldiers, 1939-1946.

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.

The fonds contains newsclippings and photocopies of clippings featuring the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry in World War One and Korea, the Regimental Pipe Band, the Ric-A-Dam-Doo and the Honour Guard for Queen Elizabeth II, 1998. Also included is a bubble gum card featuring the Pipe Band in France, 1915.

The fonds consists of an album that was presented to T.J. Turnbull upon his retirement in 1934. It contains informal portraits of 40 sergeants, warrant officers, and commissioned officers, and their farewell messages.

The fonds contains 5 booklets of poetry and autobiographical prose written by James S. Mullan about his early adulthood and his service in the military. The photographs depict members of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Association, Saskatchewan Branch in Regina and at the 75th and 80th Anniversary celebrations in Calgary, Alberta, 1989 and 1994. Included is an informal portrait taken during World War II.

The fonds consists of an album of photographs and a few souvenirs documenting the military career of Edwin Chester Hicks. Included are pictures of PPCLI training on Vancouver Island, in garrisons in Scotland and southern England, and in the field in Italy. Some photos are annotated with the names of Hick's friends. Includes samples of military currency used in Italy.

The fonds includes an album maintained by Pte Donald A. Massie documenting his training and recreational experiences as a young member of the PPCLI at Work Point Barracks, Esquimalt BC, and other locations in British Columbia,1937-1939; includes two images from England, 1940, 1942. Includes a scrapbook (1931-1963) containing service records, postcards from friends, newsclippings, programs, business cards, ration cards, membership cards, handbills, receipts, bus tickets, table napkins, and other memorabilia of his military service and of his life.