Armed Forces

Photograph of Thomas Head Raddall speaking at a dinner in his honour given by the officers of the West Nova Scotia Regiment held in the Officers' Mess at Camp Aldershot

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 11, Item 3
Item
18 November 1949

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, is related to material found in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1944-1961, and to MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 30, Item 3.

Photograph of Thomas Head Raddall receiving a silver tray from the West Nova Scotia Regiments

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 11, Item 5
Item
18 November 1949

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, is related to material found in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1944-1961, and to MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 30, Item 3 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. The photograph was taken at a dinner hosted in the Officers' Mess at Camp Aldershot given to honour Raddall. The silver tray Raddall received was presented by Lieutenant Colonel Tom Powers on behalf of the West Nova Scotia Regiments.

Photographs of the No. 10 Halifax Siege Battery

MS-2-827, OS Box 17, Folder 5
File
[ca. 1917]

File contains two photographs of the No. 10 Halifax Siege Battery.

Team portrait of the No. 10 Halifax Siege Battery Football Team, 1917

MS-2-827, OS Box 17, Folder 5, Item 1
Item
1917

Part of Photographs of the No. 10 Halifax Siege Battery

Item is a group portrait of the No. 10 Halifax Siege Battery football team, 1917 Champions of Eastern Canada, featuring: Gr. Walker, W.; Sergt. Shand, E.B.; Gr. McDonald, A.; Cpl. Logan, H.A.; Cpl. Colquhoun, D.A.Y.; Bdr. Logan, J.F.; B.S.M. Fultz, S.L.; Bdr. Sharpe, F.; Gr. Shurman; Gr. Mahon, W.H.; Capt. Palmer, F.H.; Lieut. McNair, J.B.; Cpl. Richardson, R.B.; Gr. McInnis, W.; Bdr. Kuhn, W.E.; R.Q.M.S. Holmes, G.R.; Gr. McClafferty, R.K.; Gr. Smith, W.B.; Bdr. Taylor, G.; and Gr. Fisher, C.

Field portrait of the No. 10 Halifax Siege Battery, ca. 1917

MS-2-827, OS Box 17, Folder 5, item 2
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Photographs of the No. 10 Halifax Siege Battery

Item is a photograph of the No. 10 Halifax Siege Battery, including cadets and drummer boys, standing to attention in a field, with a cemetery and farmhouses in the background.

Correspondence from Robert Logan to Lieutenant Colonel W. Arthur Steel concerning Logan's work with the air force

MS-2-580, Box 17, Folder 19
File
1960 - 1962

Part of Robert A. Logan fonds

Correspondence between Robert Logan and George [Wakeman] regarding Logan's work with the air force

MS-2-580, Box 17, Folder 14
File
1966 - 1971

Part of Robert A. Logan fonds

Correspondence between Robert Logan and Walter V. Powell, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Slippery Rock University concerning Logan's experiences during World War I

MS-2-580, Box 18, Folder 8
File
1984 - 1985

Part of Robert A. Logan fonds

Photograph of Captain Robert A. Logan, Royal Flying Corps in German prisoner of war Camp Schweidnitz

MS-2-580, Box 4, Folder 12
File
1917

Part of Robert A. Logan fonds

This folder contains 2 copies of the photograph, date of copy unknown.

Correspondence between Robert Logan and Air Vice Marshall Raymond Collishaw, D.S.O. concerning Logan's experiences during World War I

MS-2-580, Box 18, Folder 9
File
1966

Part of Robert A. Logan fonds

Correspondence between Robert Logan and various people concerning Logan's experiences with aviation with the Air Force

MS-2-580, Box 18, Folder 16
File
1971 - 1976

Part of Robert A. Logan fonds

Folder includes correspondence from C.R. Dunlap, Air Marshal, President, R.C.A.F. Memorial Fund; Earle Williams, Flight Leader (ret'd.), R.C.A.F.; Raymond L. St. Germain and James L. Secord concerning the history of aviation. Also included in the folder notes on "Voyages of the Air" by J. R. K. Main.

Correspondence between Robert Logan and J. Tuzo Wilson, Director General of the Ontario Science Centre concerning Logan's experiences with aviation and travelling to the north

MS-2-580, Box 18, Folder 19
File
1978

Part of Robert A. Logan fonds

Folder includes correspondence from C.R. Dunlap, Air Marshal, President, R.C.A.F. Memorial Fund; Earle Williams, Flight Leader (ret'd.), R.C.A.F.; Raymond L. St. Germain and James L. Secord concerning the history of aviation. Also included in the folder notes on "Voyages of the Air" by J. R. K. Main.

Soviet Union and leadership

MS-2-825, Box 15, Folder 13
File
1969 - 1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes a translation of a Russian-language newspaper article and an off print of "Soviet Science and Technology: Some Implications for US Policy," by Foy R. Kohler and Mose L. Harvey, published in Ex Orbis (U of Pennsylvania): Fall 1969.

Order of Armed Forces procedures for investigating claims of homosexuality

MS-15-11.2020-016, Box 3, Folder 5
File
1976

Part of Ron and Bryan Garnett-Doucette fonds

File contains an Order of Armed Forces regarding procedures for investigating claims of homosexuality.

Photograph of Helen Wilson Beveridge in Royal Canadian Air Force (Women's Division) uniform

MS-2-831.2022-016, PB Box 29, Folder 33
Item
[ca. 1943]

Part of Helen Wilson Beveridge fonds

Photographs of Helen Wilson Beveridge and Inspecting Officer Ernie Rhuda inspecting Royal Canadian Air Force #299 Auxillary

MS-2-831.2022-016, PB Box 29, Folder 34
File
[ca. 1950]

Part of Helen Wilson Beveridge fonds

Text of an address given by Henry D. Hicks, QC, MLA, to the Bridgetown branch of the Canadian legion

MS-2-511, Box 18, Folder 36
Item
1959

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a Remembrance Day address.

Correspondence, program and notes for an address to a dinner at the Officers' Mess at Canadian Forces Base, Gander

MS-2-511, Box 19, Folder 13
File
1972

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Military notebook kept by Henry D. Hicks during World War II

MS-2-511, Box 31, Folder 13
Item
1944

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a course syllabus and notebook containing Hicks' notes on gunnery, etc. taken during his training at SAA, Manorbier.

Radar reports, radar officers' address and gradation lists, travel accounts and memos

MS-2-511, Box 31, Folder 14
File
1944-1945

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Two anti-aircraft defence equipment technical manuals

MS-2-511, Box 36, Folder 3
File
1943

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

File contains electrical and mechanical engineering regulation guides for R.D.F. equipment anti-aircraft no. 3 MK 1 and R.D.F. equipment anti-aircraft no. 4 MK 1 (transmitter), both published in October 1943.

The Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League constitution

MS-2-511, Box 35, Folder 12
Item
1944

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a booklet published by Dominion Command that includes amendments authorized by the Tenth Dominion Convention, held in Vancouver, British Columbia, June 4-7, 1944.

Lecture notes for first paper, part 1 examination

MS-2-511, Box 36, Folder 1
Item
1940

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is Henry Hicks' copy of a supplementary training manual.

Henry Davies Hicks' Royal Canadian Artillery insignia and buttons

MS-2-511, Box 37, Folder 15
File
[ca. 1941-1945]

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

File includes two West Nova Scotia Regiment Canada flashes (badges); two West Nova Scotia Regiment bronze collar dogs; one Royal Canadian Artillery cap badge; two rank epaulet sleeves (slip-ons) with felt rank badges for captain; six loose felt rank badges, enough for the rank of captain; six loose metal rank badges, enough for the rank of captain; nine 2.5 cm (1 inch) Royal Canadian Artillery buttons; two 1.75 cm (3/4 inch) Royal Canadian Artillery buttons; ten 1.5 cm (5/8 inch) Royal Canadian Artillery buttons; 1 bronze flaming grenade pin; two ribbons for medals (War medal, 1939-1945, and the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with bar); two 1 cm maple leaves for Canadian Volunteer Service Medal augmentation; three red felt patches used as pads for cap badges; two Canada flashes (badges); two black RCA flashes (badges); four blue RCA flashes (badges): and, one 9 x 18 cm cotton bag used to hold all of the military insignia.

Photographs of VE-Day in Halifax, Nova Scotia

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22
File
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File contains 38 photographs taken in downtown Halifax during and after riots that took place on VE Day in 1945. Photographs show servicemen and women as well as civilians, street celebrations and ransacked stores. Item 25 was taken by Roy Tidman and Item 37 is a Royal Canadian Navy photograph.

Henry Hicks' Canadian Army officer's record of service pamphlet

MS-2-511, Box 35, Folder 2
File
1941-1945

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

File also contains pamphlets: Message Writing and RT (1944), Voluntary Blood Donor Service Enrolment Book, and Veterans' Booklet, No. 6 District Depot, CA; a receipt from the Quartermaster's Store for a pistol; and a poem: "Psalm of the Zombies."

Military papers from the Department of National Defence related to Bruce S.C. Oland

MS-2-135, Box 88, Folder 2
File
1950-1970

Part of Oland family fonds

Photograph of the Officers of the First Regiment Canadian Garrison Artillery

MS-2-135.2019-081, OS Box 18, Folder 5
File
1914

Part of Oland family fonds

Photograph includes: Captain G. M. Brew; Captain H. B. Gates; Captain A. N. Jones; Captain G. H. Maxwell; Lieutenant G. B. Oland; Lieutenant A. R. Lindsay, M.D.; Major A.W. Duffus; Lieutenant Colonel J. A. Marshall; Major J. L MacKinnon; Lieutenant J. R. Curry; Lieutenant L. N. Seaman; Major E. V. Hogan, M.D.; Major A.W. Smith; Major A.M. Bauld (Quartermaster); Lieutenant F. Sharp; Lieutenant S. C. Oland; Captain F. S. Burns; Captain Lieutenant L. J. Donaldson (Chaplain); Captain P.O. Soulis; Lieutenant P. B. Stairs; Lieutenant G.A. Medcalfe

Photograph of Lieutenant Colonel Sidney Culverwell Oland

MS-2-135.2019-081, OS Box 18, Folder 4
File
[ca. 1940]

Part of Oland family fonds

Photograph of Colonel Sidney Culverwell Oland, KSTJ, V.D., C.D., LL.D., D.Eng., K.M.

MS-2-135.2019-081, OS Box 18, Folder 6
File
[ca.1977]

Part of Oland family fonds

"Nova Scotia Militia Period 1865" sketches

MS-2-202, Box 31, Folder 11, Item 2
Item
[19--]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item consists of labelled hand-drawn sketches of militia uniforms. One is of Kirby Stevens' uniform (of the Volunteer Rifle Company).

Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, November 18, 1915

MS-2-82, Box 15, Folder 14, Item 8
Item
November 18, 1915

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item consists of handwritten correspondence written by Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, dated November 18, 1915, in Montreal, Quebec, discussing the difficult decision to enlist in the war effort, and his training for the Canadian Grenadier Guards Overseas Battalion. He then discusses military exploits of mutual friends.

Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, October 11, 1916

MS-2-82, Box 15, Folder 14, Item 9
Item
October 11, 1916

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item consists of handwritten correspondence written by Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, dated October 11, 1916, in Montreal, Quebec, discussing training and work with his battalion, chiefly at Bramshott Camp near London.

Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, January 31, 1918

MS-2-82, Box 15, Folder 14, Item 10
Item
January 31, 1918

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item consists of handwritten correspondence written by Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, dated Janaury 31, 1918, in Cradley, Wales. Discussion includes commentary about his experiences during the Battle of Passchendaele, and of the recent passing of his friend the poet John McCrae.

Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, September 12, 1918

MS-2-82, Box 15, Folder 14, Item 11
Item
September 12, 1918

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item consists of handwritten correspondence written by Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, dated September 12, 1918, from "The Field", briefly discussing military actions and at more length about camp life, food, and chance encounters with friends passing through battalion headquarters.

Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, January 28, 1919

MS-2-82, Box 15, Folder 14, Item 12
Item
January 28, 1919

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item consists of handwritten correspondence written by Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, dated January 28, 1919, in Hoeylaert, Belgium, expressing relief at the cessation of hostilities and anxious anticipation upon returning home, and of Grenadier post-war life billeted in a village near Brussels.

Photograph of military officers at the Radio Direction Finding School, Barriefield, Ontario

MS-2-511, OS Box 23, Folder 5
Item
July 1943

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a photograph of officers on staff at the Radio Direction Finding (R.D.F.) School at Barriefield, Ontario.

Handwritten summary of "The Screening of Psychoneurotics," chapter 14 of The American Soldier, Volume IV

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 9, item 5
Item
[1949?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a three-page summary written by H.L. Kohn.

Typed notes from "The Screening of Psychoneurotics in the Army: Technical Development of Tests"

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 9, item 4
Item
[1949?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a typed set of notes about "The Screening of Psychoneurotics in the Army: Technical Development of Tests," chapter 13 of The American Soldier, Volume IV.