Fonds comprises the records of William Edward Maclellan and his family's records, including those of including William Edward and Margaret Jane (Mackenzie) Maclellan; Edward Kirkpatrick and Helen Stewart (Mackay) Maclellan; Robert (Bob) William and Delphine Caroline (Wallace) Maclellan; Jean Stewart Maclellan; Robert William Maclellan; and David Kirkpatrick Stewart Maclellan. Record types include correspondence, photographs, films, newspaper clippings, poems, certificates, booklets, periodicals, notebooks and genealogical charts.
Fonds contains 46 letters and postcards written by Weldon Morash while serving overseas in World War One and sent to his brother and sister in Halifax, Nova Scotia. There are also photographs.
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
Item is a glass plate lantern slide of Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude's grave. He is buried in North Gate War Cemetery in Baghdad, Iraq. The photograph was taken between 1917 and 1918.
Item is a glass plate lantern slide of unidentified buildings along a riverbank. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.
Item is a glass plate lantern slide of the Turkish Ottoman Memorial erected following the Siege of Kut. The photograph was taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.
Item is a glass plate lantern slide of the Imam Husayn Shrine. "The tomb of Hussein Kerbela" is written on the photograph. The photograph was taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.
Item is a glass plate lantern slide of unidentified soldiers and an ox drawn cart. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.
Item is a glass plate lantern slide of children inside an unidentified building. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.
Item is a glass plate lantern slide of people with bundled boxes. There is a round building on a hill in the background. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.
Item is a glass plate lantern slide of a group of people carrying large bundles of branches. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.
Item is a glass plate lantern slide of people with horses. The horses appear to be pulling farming equipment. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.
Item is a glass plate lantern slide of a group of people in a field with horses. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.
Item is a glass plate lantern slide of people sitting on a riverfront next to a rowboat in the water. A couple of people are in the rowboat and appear to be leading a camel onto shore. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.
Item is a glass plate lantern slide of the Dhul Kifl Shrine. Today the shrine is part of the An-Nukhailah Mosque. The photograph was taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.
Item is a glass plate lantern slide of boats in water. There are unidentified buildings in the background as well as people on a walkway next to the water. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.
Item is a glass plate lantern slide of a boat next to unidentified buildings. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.
