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60th Battalion, Victoria Rifles of Canada : 700 days

  • PPCLI Fonds 12 file 5
  • File
  • 1960 - 1969

The file consists of a typewritten and photocopied book-length history of the 60th Battalion, C.E.F., the Victoria Rifles of Canada, which existed from June 1915 to April 1917.

60th Battalion, C.E.F. (Victoria Rifles of Canada)

William Ferguson Gregory fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 81
  • Fonds
  • 1915-1970

The fonds contains a short memoir, service records, newsclippings, letters to his father, a letter to his son, a program of music, and a blueprint of the kit layout for the First World War.

Gregory, William Ferguson

Howard Ferguson fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 116
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1900-ca. 1970]

The fonds consists of one album which has virtually no inscriptions or captions but contains items known to be created or collected by Howard Ferguson. Includes a photograph, presumably of Ferguson in his senior years. Includes a group portrait of the P.P.C.L.I. Concert Party (W. James Cunningham, Jack Maclaren, Norman D. Clarke, T.J. Lilly, Fred Fenwick). Includes a card featuring a painting by Ferguson's friend Tom Pritchard. Includes many photos of formal and social events of the PPCLI Association in Ottawa, including visits of Lady Patricia Ramsay and Dorothy Gault, and parades on Parliament Hill and at the National Cenotaph. Includes a story and pictures of the silver bugle that was presented by the PPCLI to the Boy Scouts of Ottawa. Includes postcards of Monaco, France, and Belgium (ca. 1900-ca. 1920). Includes a self-published short story: Shelley Plain / G.R. Stevens ; J.W. McLaren.

Ferguson, Howard

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.

Harry D. Lyndon fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 95
  • Fonds
  • 1943-1977

The fonds contains 19 photographs and photocopies of 4 pages from a photograph album, all depicting members of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry in Italy during the Second World War. Also included are 12 photographs of the Colonel-In-Chief's visit to Currie Barracks, Calgary 1977, newsclippings of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry in Italy, a leaflet on German words of command and various bank notes and military script.

Lyndon, Harry D.

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

PPCLI Battle School photo collection

  • PPCLI P170
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1953]-1985

The Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) Depot was established at Calgary in 1953 for the purpose of training soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Battalions, and overseeing administrative functions for the Regiment as a whole. In 1956 it moved to Edmonton. In 1968 with the reorganization of the Canadian Armed Forces the Depot was abolished, and recruit training was centralized at CFB Wainwright. In 1974 the recruit training function became the responsibility of the 1st Canadian Mechanized Brigade Training Detachment. In 1981 it was renamed the PPCLI Battle School. In 1997 it was renamed the Western Area Training Centre. This collection consists of photographs of the PPCLI Depot and PPCLI Battle School, as well as Canadian Forces Recruit School (CFRS) at CFB Cornwallis and Combat Training Centre (CTC) at CFB Gagetown.

John Alexander Campbell fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 128
  • Fonds
  • 1950 - 1989

The fonds consists of five scrapbooks. The first four volumes consist mostly of photocopies of newsclippings about the Korean War, arranged in chronological order. The fifth volume consists mostly of newsclippings and nominal rolls of casualties. Also includes a few original newsclippings about Campbell and his comrades from Ingersoll. An informal portrait of Campbell is on the final page of volume 5.

Campbell, John Alexander

James Harris Young fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 90
  • Fonds
  • 1914-1989

The fonds contains a small photo of Princess Patricia with Hamilton Gault; 2 photos of "Scotty", mascot of D Company, 77th Battalion; photo of Young with comrades; studio portrait of Young (1918); 2 photos of the 77th Battalion (1916); photo of the 72nd Battalion; 15 postcards of troop activities on the battlefront; 1 tintype photo of Young or an ancestor outside tent; 1 news clipping with map of the Ypres district (1916); 2 citation letters (1959); invitation to Trooping ceremony (1967); Patricia Club song brochure (ca. 1920s); and 4 newspaper clippings collected by Patricia Young (1974, 1989). Includes copy of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, 1914-1919 / by Ralph Hodder-Williams (vols. 1 and 2) annotated by Young to document his war experiences.

Young, James Harris

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