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 photograph of the No. 7 Stationary Hospital medical and nursing staff with some family members, which suggests that picture was taken in Halifax some time before they left for France.
File contains a newspaper clipping and letters to Edith J. Archibald concerning her song "Britain Calls," which was written for the Royal Canadian Regiment during World War One. The newspaper clipping includes the text, but not the music, of the song. The letters are from G.A. LeCain, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Commanding 25th Battalion; George Murray, Provincial Secretary; and Evelyn Starr, professional violinist of New York City. An inscription by Edith J. Archibald at the top of the letters reads, "This song, dedicated to the Royal Canadian Regt. has made their 'marchpost' and I am told by an officer of that Regt. that is was played and sung daily during the war. He himself said it had keeped [sic] the men when on the tramp, 'over many a weary mile.'"
The item consists of a group of prisoners of war from the Internment Camp in Amherst, Nova Scotia, posed in a human pyramid. There are three gentlemen in suits included in the photograph.
Item is a glass plate lantern slide of unidentified soldiers and horses next to a hill. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.
Item is a glass plate lantern slide of an unidentified soldier climbing a palm tree. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.
Item is a glass plate lantern slide of people crossing a pontoon bridge over the Tigris River. "Old Bridge Baghdad" 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 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 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.
This issue of the Gazette was sent to MacMechan by Owen Bell Jones from the trenches during the First World War. Mud is most pronounced on pages 4 and 5.
On photograph reverse: On left Robert A. Logan, later pilot in Royal Flying Corps of the British Army, ended as Captain; on right George Abbott, later pilot in the British Royal naval Air Service. Both learned to fly and flew an active service in the first World War.
Collection consists of a booklet about the history of the No. 7 Stationary Hospital, correspondence of nursing matron Laura Hubley, a book of signatures of the unit's members, and correspondence and a small album containing postcards sent by Sgt. A. Fraser Tupper (who worked with the unit in 1916 and 1917) to his nephew, Ralph Kane.
Canada. Canadian Army Medical Corps. Canadian Stationary Hospital, no. 7
Item is an album containing mounted postcards sent by Sgt. A. Fraser Tupper to his nephew, Ralph Kane, while Tupper was serving overseas during World War One. The postcards feature images including a photograph of Tupper,war propaganda, holiday greetings, cartoons, photographs England and children. Some are made of embroidered fabric or vellum and all have messages written by Tupper on the reverse.
File contains two copies of a photograph of the officers, nursing sisters, N.C.Os and men of the No. 7 Stationary Hospital C.E.F., Dalhousie Unit. The photograph shows the soldiers and nursing sisters sitting or standing in four rows with snow on the ground and buildings in the background. Some names are written in pencil on one of the copies.
1 photograph is an outdoors picture of the unit, Sidney C. Oland in 7th from the left in the front row. 1 photograph is the group on a ship name the CPASC Armstrong.
File contains three postcard portrait photographs of Oscar Donovan and an unidentified officer, both wearing Canadian Army Medical Corps uniform. The postcards are printed in France.
Item consists of a letter sent by Owen Bell Jones to Archibald MacMechan, dated December 20, 1915, discussing the discovery of a muddy copy of the Dalhousie Gazette in a trench in France during the First World War.
Folder contains papers and correspondence relating to the Dalhousie University No. 7 Stationary Hospital, including a reunion dinner menu, a company Christmas card, a Christmas card from Laura Hubley to Harold Dunlap (?) of the 85th Battalion (Cape Breton Highlanders), a message from Lt. Col. John Stewart to Laura Hubley, a letter from L.D. Holland to Laura Hubley, and a set of daily orders for the Stationary Hospital.
Item, a photograph, is related to material in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1917-1927. There is a note to Ellen Raddall from her husband, T.H. Raddall, Sr., on the reverse side. Raddall, Sr. marked his position in the parade on the front with an x: he is the fifth from the left in the foremost line, wearing a long, dark overcoat that nearly reaches his ankles.
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
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