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Henry Davies Hicks fonds

MS-2-511
Fonds
1915 - 1990, predominant 1937-1986

Fonds comprises records documenting Henry Hicks' political career and tenure as president of Dalhousie University, as well as his earlier studies at Oxford University and his military service in World War II. There are also records regarding his stamp collecting hobby, his community service, and his long involvement with associations such as the Rhodes Scholarship Committee. Record types include diaries and appointment books, correspondence, manuscripts, philatelic records, newspaper clippings and photographs.

Hicks, Henry D.

Manual of anti-aircraft defence (Army Units), vol.1 (part 1 - gunnery)

MS-2-511, Box 35, Folder 14
Item
1937

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a manual issued by the British War Office with Hicks' initials on the inside cover along with the handwritten words "SAAD (wireless wing), copy 16."

Henry Hicks' military records

Series
1939 - 1984, predominant 1939-1945

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Series comprises records created and collected by Henry Hicks during his World War Two service in the Royal Canadian Artillery as a radar specialist. The bulk of the records are training and service manuals and confidential reports about radar trials.

Be thou my battle-shield sword for the fight

MS-2-511, Box 35, Folder 17
Item
[ca. 1939]

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a small booklet compiled by men who served overseas in the war of 1914-1918 containing prayers and poems and a few blank pages for personal memoranda.

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 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."

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.

ZPI siting / W. McKay (Major, RCA) and Henry D. Hicks (Capt, RCA)

MS-2-511, Box 34, Folder 1
Item
[1943?]

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a report summarizing the problems of ZPI siting throughout Canada and to offer a comparison with a FAW set.

Small arms manual / by Lt. Col. J.A. Barlow, S.A.C. and Major R.E.W. Johnson

MS-2-511, Box 35, Folder 1
Item
July 1943

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a pocket-sized small arms manual with Henry Hicks' name written on the front cover.

Report on CDY trials at Halifax, NS

MS-2-511, Box 25, Folder 3
Item
May 1944

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a stapled report produced by the Directorate of Artillery, marked secret.

Report on mortar location trials with an experimental K-band radar set conducted at Petawawa Military Camp

MS-2-511, Box 35, Folder 7
Item
December 1944

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a report marked secret and produced by Directorate of Artillery.

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

Radar electronic fundamentals

MS-2-511, Box 35, Folder 18
Item
1944

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a manual produced by the US War Department on 29 June 1944 with Henry Hicks' name written on the front cover.

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.

AA No.4 MK VI (MZPI) trials held in the Vancouver (BC) defence area / Directorate of Artillery

MS-2-511, Box 34, Folder 2
Item
March 1944

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is copy 39 of a report marked secret with Henry Hicks' name printed on the cover.

Confidential CAFE AA trials up to September 1944

MS-2-511, Box 34, Folder 3
Item
31 December 1944

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is Captain Henry Hicks' copy of a vinyl bound report.

Report on the performance of radar AA no. 3 MK I in conjunction with predictor AA no. 5 MK I*

MS-2-511, Box 35, Folder 8
Item
1944

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a report market secret and produced by Directorate of Artillery.

Report no.1 by Directorate of Artillery on errors in the computor for the double scanning counter mortar radar

MS-2-511, Box 35, Folder 5
Item
May 1945

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is report marked secret compiled by Capt. J.S. Fraser and J.E. Breeze for Colonel W.E. van Steenburgh.

Report on operational trials on the automatic following modification for radar AA no. 3 MK 1 conducted at A-36 Canadian Radar Training Centre

MS-2-511, Box 35, Folder 9
Item
1945

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a report marked confidential and produced by Directorate of Artillery.

Itinerary and notes for Brigadier G.C. Gray, CBE, Director of Radar, The War Office, London, on his visit to North America

MS-2-511, Box 35, Folder 13
File
June 1945

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a printed pamphlet with pages at the beginning containing Hicks' notes.

Radar : a report on science at war

MS-2-511, Box 35, Folder 19
Item
15 August 1945

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a report distributed through the Facilities of the US Office of War Information.

Reports on radar trials and investigations

MS-2-511, Box 34, Folder 4
File
1945

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Report on design of Canadian Army radar equipments for use in tropical theatres as exemplified in design design of radar AA no 4 MK 6

MS-2-511, Box 35, Folder 4
Item
31 March 1945

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a confidential report written by Major A. B. Sinclair and Capt. W. C. Brown.

Report on acceptance trials for radar AA no. 4 MK 6

MS-2-511, Box 35, Folder 11
Item
1945

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a report marked confidential and produced by Directorate of Artillery.

Report on ground control flying (GCF) using radar AA no. 3 MKI and AA no. 4 MK 1

MS-2-511, Box 35, Folder 6
Item
March 1945

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a report marked confidential and produced by the Directorate of Artillery.

Report on visit to UK and NW Europe (21 army group) by Capt. Henry D. Hicks, Directorate of Artillery, NDHQ

MS-2-511, Box 35, Folder 15
Item
1945

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a perfect bound printed report marked secret.

An exhibition of radars and associated electronic developments

MS-2-511, Box 35, Folder 16
Item
November 1945

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a report containing descriptions and photographs of some of the radar and associated electronic equipment designed and manufactured in Canada during the Second World War.

Report on tracking of small bombs with radar A.A. no. 3 MK 1

MS-2-511, Box 35, Folder 10
Item
February 1946

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a report marked restricted and produced by the Branch of the Master General of the Ordnance, Ottawa.