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Reid, James Malcolm Collection Military
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James Malcolm Reid collection

  • PPCLI Collection 20
  • Collection
  • 1915-2003

The collection consists of materials about the PPCLI collected by James Malcolm Reid and other members of the Toronto Branch, PPCLI Association. Includes a copy of correspondence received by [Maj. S.H.?] Hill from senior officers Farquhar, Gault, and Buller (1915); a poem "In Memory of Frezenberg" by D.J. Pearce; newsclippings (1988-1994); newsclippings about the Somalia Inquiry (1994); speeches about the Battle of Kapyong by J. R. Stone and O.R. Browne (1968, 1973); reference sources on genealogy of Lady Patricia Ramsay and Countess Patricia Mountbatten; poem, "The Grand Stonewall Brigade" by T.B. Clark; article about the PPCLI by Frederick Palmer (1915); information compiled on PPCLI members Jack Riel, Edward Edwards, Gus Fabri, and Gordon Shiells; letter, Mrs. C.B. Keenan to Mr. Thompson regarding activities of the PPCLI Club (1919); obituary card for Jenny MacGregor Morris, "London Mother" (1960); 2 photographs of Coriano Ridge Cemetery, Italy, including an image of Jim Reid at Captain Corkett's grave (1999); 1 photograph of veterans marching past in review at Lansdowne Park in Ottawa (1999); and poems by PPCLI veterans Lawrence Binyon and Tommy Yorath (1916-1917).

Reid, James Malcolm