The fonds contains photographs (prints and negatives) of Exercise Sweetbriar and the Korean War (1950-1951); 31 slides illustrating Hub Gray's PPCLI service from 1950 to 1953; 13 photographs of the dedication ceremony of the Radar Hill Memorial, Tofino, BC (1998); and 11 photographs of the Second Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Trooping (2001). Includes researched reports on the events of the Battle of KapYong; and a copy of Gray's book Beyond the Danger Close.
Gray, HubThe 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.
Massie, Donald ArthurThe 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 CecilThe fonds consists of correspondence, certificates, speeches, essays, programs, menus, books, log books, manuals, posters, scrapbooks, newsclippings, photo albums, loose photographs and maps related to the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry and Hamilton Gault's life and his service with the Regiment. Correspondents include Raymond Pelly, Percival Campbell, Princess Patricia (Lady Patricia Ramsay), Agar Adamson, G.R. Pearkes, Prince Arthur (Duke of Connaught), Kate Blackader, Georges-P. Vanier, Ralph Hodder-Williams, Hugh Niven, J.G. Edmonds, Hugh Dyer, M.R. TenBroeke, Cameron Ware, and Sir Adrian Cartion de Wiart. Includes photographs of Hamilton Gault's funeral, correspondence of Dorothy Gault, records of Hatch Court Museum (1972-1995), and research documents collected by Jeffery Williams. Includes files on the Hamilton Gault Skill-at-Arms Trophy, the Hamilton Gault Memorial Fund, and the naming and ascent of Mount Hamilton Gault. Includes collected personal papers of LCol D.H. Rosser, LCol Agar Adamson, and Capt. Talbot Papineau. .
Gault, Andrew HamiltonThe fonds consists of reports, budgets, planning documents, and retail catalogues.
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. Kit ShopThe fonds contains correspondence, questionnaires, interview cassette tapes, CD copies, transcripts, photographs and other material compiled as research for the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Regimental History Book project. Also included are draft copies of chapters of the book written by Dr. David Bercuson.
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. Heritage CommitteeThe fonds contains correspondence, newsclippings, speeches, programmes, meeting minutes, notices and service records relating to Toronto Branch members and activities. Included are letters and the President's Report from A. Hamilton Gault, obituaries of past members including the will of David James Pearce, a photograph of the Third Battalion Carrier Platton, 1951, the service records of Adam Wolfe and Harold Morden, articles and letters relating to the Dumbells, the London Mother, the Sicily Memorial and Cousins Lake. Also included are materials relating to the University Company Memorial Plaque unveiling with nominal rolls and stats, Patricias buried in Sicily and Italy Cemeteries and the 35th anniversary ceremonies in Amsterdam in 1980.
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. Toronto BranchThe fonds consists of a program for the PPCLI Association 45th Annual dinner held in Vernon, BC, 1963; and programs, newsclippings, and photographs of PPCLI Association events held in Korea, Tofino, BC, Edmonton, and Vernon, BC.
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Association. Okanagan/Thompson BranchThe fonds contains 1 photograph of the cairn erected on the site of Fort Osborne Barracks, Home Station of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry from April 1920 to December 1939, and scattered issues of the Manitoba and Northwest Ontario Branch Newsletter (1998-2011)
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Association. Manitoba and Northwest Ontario BranchThe fonds includes: the field message in which Rosser was appointed acting Commanding Officer of the Regiment (1944); club rules, The McNaughton Club, Oldenburg, Germany (ca. 1945); two letters from Lady Patricia Ramsay (1944); sketches for training materials; cartoons by J.A. Houston; letter from the father of fallen soldier Charles Grainger Lord (1944); file of research on his medals and career (ca. 1990); and pages and loose photographs from an album documenting Rosser's training and personal activities in England and Kingston, Ontario, and in the field in Italy. Album includes images of training and residence at Dumferline, Redhill, Lingfield, Godstone, Cove, Operation Hammer, Starborough Castle, Exercise Spartan, southern Italy, Rome, Blindley Heath, Kingston, Roedown School, Operation Torchy, Staff College. Includes identified images of Cameron Ware, Bob Starke, Reg Clark, RC Coleman, D. Brain, Bob Lindsay, H. Fairbrother, G.R. Pearkes, Stewart Cobbett, "Shorty" Colquhoun, and Lady Patricia Ramsay.
Rosser, David Hillard