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PPCLI Colours photo collection.

  • PPCLI P14
  • Collection
  • 1914 - 1989

This collection consists of images of the Colours of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) as well as related units such as 2 Commando of the Canadian Airborne Regiment. Also includes images of the PPCLI camp flag. In early military tradition, a battalion’s Colours were a flag carried near the commanding officer to serve as a rallying point in the melee of battle. Though no longer of strategic importance, its Colours are considered to be its most precious possession and are normally only displayed during military parades. In the British Commonwealth, battalions possess two Colours: the King’s (or Queen’s) Colour and the Regimental Colour. Regiments can be given permission to decorate their Colours with Battle Honours: the names of notable battles or campaigns in which they fought. PPCLI’s original Colour, known as the Ric-A-Dam-Doo, was hand-embroidered by Princess Patricia, and was last Canadian Colour to actually be carried into battle.

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Regimental Museum and Archives

Owen Gardner fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 133
  • Fonds
  • 1794, 1924-1989

The fonds contains a copy of the Militia Act of Great Britain (1786) from Gardner's library; his Warrant (1939); his demobilization letter (1945); a transcribed poem; and a menu from the Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Society (Calgary) annual memorial dinner (1984). Includes photographs from Gardner's military career which he had framed (1924-1973); and photographs from his retirement collected by Evelyn de Mille (ca. 1980s).

Gardner, Owen Wallace

Patrick Owen Judge fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 103
  • Fonds
  • 1970-1990

The fonds consists of 7 scrapbooks or albums, containing many photographs, as well as newsclippings, programs, certificates, membership cards, passes, and other souvenirs of Pat Judge's military career.

Judge, Patrick Owen

Royal Winnipeg Rifles collection

  • PPCLI Collection 131
  • Collection
  • 1958 - 1990

The collection consists of printed materials produced by the Royal Winnipeg Rifles: 75th anniversary historical pamphlet (1958); announcement of re-dedication of the Volunteer Monument and granting of the Freedom of the City (1968); Centennial program pocket edition (1983); One hundredth anniversary [souvenir program] (1983); newsletter: The Devil's blast / The Royal Winnipeg Rifles Association. - Vol. 8, no. 3 (1990 Sept.).

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Regimental Museum and Archives

Stanley C. Waters fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 7
  • Fonds
  • 1973 - 1991

The fonds contains 10 photo albums, primarily of ceremonial and official visit photographs. Most of the albums also contain additional loose photographs or documentation such as letters and newspaper clippings related to the album. Includes 21 photos of S.C. Waters' funeral.

Waters, Stanley C.

James Henry Horton fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 114
  • Fonds
  • 1926-1992

The fonds includes Jim Horton's passport (1926); his service records and souvenirs (1939-1945); correspondence regarding his Bronze Star (1946); correspondence regarding his release and Reserve service (1945-1969); maps (ca. 1940-ca. 1944); photographs (1939-1959); newsclippings reflecting his association with PPCLI (1940-1966); and newsclippings about his bookstore (1966, 1992)

Horton, James Henry

Robert Byrl Mainprize fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 44
  • Fonds
  • 1888-1994 (predominant 1934-1964)

The fonds contains service records, photographs, pamphlets, booklets, manuals, scrapbooks, speeches, souvenirs, ephemera, maps and prints documenting R.B. Mainprize's military career including: regimental history, parades, mess dinners, trooping the Colour, Work Point Barracks, Second World War England, Operation Varsity (crossing the Rhine), Korea, Airborne training, and peacekeeping in the Middle East.

Mainprize, Robert Byrl

James S. Mullan fonds

  • PPCLI 02.59
  • Fonds
  • 1931-1994

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.

Mullan, James S.

Glenn W. Nordick fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 117
  • Fonds
  • 1990-1994

The fonds consists of a report by LCol Nordick of his expedition to the battlefields of Kuwait immediately after the Gulf War to acquire artifacts for the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Regimental Museum and Archives; and photographs documenting the expedition, including one showing (then) Major Nordick.

Nordick, Glenn W.

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