Showing 194 results

Archival description
Only top-level descriptions
Print preview View:

Charles Sydney Frost fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 6
  • Fonds
  • 1989 - 2009

The fonds includes 5 photographs of the ceremonies (1990) and plaque honouring the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry's crossing of the Ijssel River, Holland 11 April 1945, 4 photographs of the First Division Monument in Sicily, 1991, 3 photographs of the Apeldoorn National Parade, Holland, 2000 and 6 photographs of the ceremonies and reception (2000) to commemorate the liberation of Achterveld, Holland in 1945. Textual records include correspondence, reports, nominal rolls, and speeches related to the Canadian Forces Pilgrimages to Holland in 1990, 1994, 1998, 1999 and 2000 and the Pilgrimage to Sicily, 2000, and his appointment as an honorary citizen of Ispica, Sicily (1995). Includes a file of 6 photos and research materials contributed by Jan van Dyk regarding the liberation of Achterveld (2001). Includes the manuscript for Sydney Frost's memoirs, "Always a Patricia". Includes his obituary and messages of condolence.

Frost, Charles Sydney

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Heritage Committee fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 36
  • Fonds
  • 1992-2009

The 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 Committee

John Henry Richardson fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 19
  • Fonds
  • 1939 - 2009

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.

Richardson, John Henry

Loyal Edmonton Regiment collection

  • PPCLI Collection 38
  • Collection
  • 1944-2008

The collection consists of the Loyal Edmonton Regiment's war diary for May-September 1944; a poster commemorating its 75th anniversary (1990); a recruiting brochure (ca. 2000); information on the naming of geographical features of the Edmonton housing development Village at Griesbach; and programs for regimental parades (2007, 2008).

Loyal Edmonton Regiment

Cecil James Simpson fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 127
  • Fonds
  • Copied 2008 (originally created 1914-1919)

The fonds consists of copies of 8 pages from Cecil Simpson's notebook containing a chronology of his military service and nominal roll of 6 Platoon; uncaptioned photographs (copied from the original negatives) of Simpson, his wife, comrades, and family members; and copies of two items of French and Canadian currency autographed by Simpson and comrades.

Simpson, Cecil James

Roderick Middleton fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 49
  • Fonds
  • 1941-2007

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.

Middleton, Roderick

Mike Levy fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 28
  • Fonds
  • 1951-2007

The fonds contains one photograph of 10 Platoon, D Coy, Second Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Korea, 1951; a file including photographs documenting the grant of Mike Levy's coat of arms by the Chief Herald of Canada; and obituaries.

Levy, Mike

Jack LaChance fonds

  • PPCLI fonds 21
  • Fonds
  • 1951, 1995-2006

The fonds contains one photograph of the Second Battalion reinforcement group, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at Camp Nippon Berra, Japan, June 1951; and 7 original poems.

LaChance, Jack E.

Arthur Norrie Bisset Mortimer fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 70
  • Fonds
  • 1917-[ca. 2006]

The fonds contains newsclippings, a telegram from Agar Adamson, a dance card and a letter from the Bourgmestre of Ypres. Also includes a biographical article written by R.S. Peacock, ca, 2006.

Mortimer, Arthur Norrie Bisset

Results 31 to 40 of 194