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Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Home Station Warrant Officers' and Sergeants' Mess fonds
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1914-2000 (Creation)
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1914-2000 (Creation)
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- Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. Home Station Warrant Officers' and Sergeants' Mess
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1 cm of textual records
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In Canadian military tradition, senior non-commissioned officers (sergeants and warrant officers) normally dine separately from officers and from junior ranks (privates and corporals). The Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) Sergeant's Mess was established in 1914 shortly after the founding of the Regiment. By the 1970s it was known as the Home Station Warrant Officers' and Sergeants Mess. The Home Station of the PPCLI was considered to be Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Calgary from 1968 until 1997 when it was moved to CFB Edmonton. Under the authority of the Queen's (or King's) Regulations and Orders, it governs itself under a Constitution and Bylaws. In addition to dining, the Mess provides social and recreational services to its members and their families.
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The fonds consists of the Standing Orders of the Sergeants' Mess (ca. 1930); the Constitution and By-Laws (1973); autographed menu of the first Annual Banquet (1914); menu for a mess dinner (1984); and autographed menu for the Non-Commissioned Members' Retirement Dinner (2000).
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The 1914 menu was donated in 2003 by E.M. Mills of Mill Bay, BC; provenance of the other items is unknown.