Item consists of correspondence, reproduced from microfilm, sent to Richard Roome on November 24, 1941, from members of the "Roome Group" stationed in Halifax, sending "Season's Greetings" and mentioning shenanigans on the home front.
Item consists of Canadian Army Overseas correspondence, reproduced from microfilm, dated April 4, 1942, sent by "Austin" to Richard Roome, giving a "very hearty congratulations on [his] recent 'upping'."
Fonds primarily consists of records documenting Roome's military career and research interest. The records span World War One and World War Two and include correspondence (1918-1919 and 1942-1946); war diaries (1915-1918 and 1940-1944); addresses and lectures (1928-1949); ca. 165 black and white photographs, mostly of Mesopotamia during World War I and of training exercises during World War II in Debert and Tracadie, Nova Scotia; photographs and postcards of Dalhousie; maps of England, France, and Mesopotamia from World War I; print materials which include newspaper clippings and copies of Canadian military magazines; research notes on the American Civil War; papers while Deputy Adjutant General (1943-1945) regarding awards, transfers, discharges, etc.; and miscellaneous other papers.
Roome, Richard Edward Graham, Brigadier, 1892-1985