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Laura Hubley's papers and correspondence re. Dalhousie University No. 7 Stationary Hospital

MS-13-2, SF Box 54, Folder 5
File
1915-1920

Part of Dalhousie University No. 7 Stationary Hospital collection

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.

Photograph of an unidentified soldier

MS-2-128, PB Box 21, Folder 29, Item 3
Item
[between 1915 and 1919]

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Item is a photograph of an unidentified soldier who served in the first world war.

Photograph of the 90th Rifles of Winnipeg, 8th Battalion on a parade at Stonehenge, Salisbury Plains, England printed on a postcard

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 17, Item 11
Item
January 1915

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

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.

Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

MS-2-252
Fonds
1915-1957

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

Robert A. Logan and the Curtiss JN2 in which he passed his solo flying tests as a pilot. August, 1915 at the Curtiss Flying School, Long Branch Aerodrome, Toronto Ontario

MS-2-580.1994-014, Box 3, Folder 4, Item 13
Item
1915

Part of Robert A. Logan fonds

Photograph of Lieutenant John Stewart and officers of the No. 7 Stationary Hospital (Dalhousie Unit)

PC1, Box 23, Folder 31
File
1915

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of Lieutenant Colonel John Stewart and Officers of the Dalhousie No. 7 Stationary Hospital (Dalhousie Unit)

PC1, Box 63, Folder 52
File
1915

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is a photograph of Lt. Col. J. Stewart and Officers of No. 7 Stationery Hospital (Dalhousie Unit). Officers named in legend below photograph. Back Row: Capt. F.V. Woodbury; Capt. J. Rankin; Capt. S.J. MacLennan; Capt. D.A. MacLeod; Lieut. Taylor(Quartermaster); Capt. K.A. MacKenzie; Lieut. K.F. Woodbury; Capt. E.K. MacLellan; Capt. J.A. Murray; Major E.V. Hogan; Lt-Col. J. Stewart, O.C.; Major L.M. Murray; Capt. V.N. MacKay.

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 between Owen Bell Jones and Archibald MacMechan

MS-2-82, Box 9, Folder 85
File
1915-1931

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

File consists of 24 letters sent from Owen Bell ("Toby") Jones to Archibald MacMechan, between 1915 and 1931. Much of the correspondence includes frank depictions of mental and physical struggles as a result of experiences in the First World War.

Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, September 16, 1915

MS-2-82, Box 9, Folder 85, Item 3
Item
September 16, 1915

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item consists of handwritten correspondence sent from Owen Bell Jones to Archibald MacMechan, dated September 16, 1915, at Valcartier Camp (Quebec City), thanking MacMechan for further outfitting of the Camp's library, general anxiousness around Camp, and the hopes of the Battalion soon being deployed to England.

Correspondence from Sgt. A Fraser Tupper to Ralph Kane

MS-13-2, SF Box 54, Folder 6
File
1915-1918

Part of Dalhousie University No. 7 Stationary Hospital collection

File contains letters, postcards, greeting cards and photographs sent to Ralph Kane by his uncle, Sgt. A. Fraser Tupper, who served overseas with the Dalhousie No. 7 Stationary Hospital during World War One.

Photograph of the "Little Black Devils" 90th Rifles of Winnipeg, 8th Battalion in a church parade on Salisbury Plain, England printed on a postcard

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 17, Item 10
Item
1915

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, is related to material in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1917-1927.

Photograph of Dr. John Stewart and company of military hospital

PC1, Box 63, Folder 34
File
[between 1915 and 1919]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is a photograph of Dr. John Stewart and group of military and hospital staff in front of field hospital tents.

Photograph of Dr. John Stewart and officer in front of officer tents

PC1, Box 63, Folder 35
File
[between 1915 and 1919]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is a photograph of Dr. John Stewart seated with officer to the right.

Photograph of nursing sisters in front of matrons tent at the Dalhousie No.7 Stationary Hospital

PC1, Box 63, Folder 37
File
[between 1915 and 1919]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of Captain Donovan and nursing staff

PC1, Box 63, Folder 41
File
[between 1915 and 1919]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of the 105th Field Ambulance

MS-13-11, PB Box 4, Folder 28
Item
[1915?]

Part of Oscar Glennie Donovan fonds

Item is a photograph of the officers and men, including the cook, of the 105th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps.

Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, August 26, 1915

MS-2-82, Box 9, Folder 85, Item 2
Item
August 26, 1915

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item consists of handwritten correspondence sent from Owen Bell Jones to Archibald MacMechan, dated August 26, 1915, thanking MacMechan for his gift of books and that it is very popular among Jones's fellow officers at Valcartier Camp.

Photographs of military scenes from the First World War

MS-2-789, Box 16, Folder 18
File
1915-1918

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 14 photographs collected by Bill Freedman, dated from 1915 through 1918, but created in the 1980s. Photographs show scenes of Canadian armed forces in France and Flanders during the First World War.

Photographs of soldiers and nurses from the No. 7 Hospital Unit

MS-2-128, PB Box 21, Folder 3
File
[ca. 1914]-1918

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

File contains four photographs of soldiers and nurses who served at Number 7 Stationary Hospital.

Scrapbook page with photographs from T.H. Raddall, Sr.'s leave in England

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 20, Item 9
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item may have been a page in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album. The photographs are related to material found in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1917-1927, to MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 19, Items 5-6, and to MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 5421 Item 17 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. The photographs on the left and right were likely taken at the W.E. Firmstone residence in England.

Photograph of T.H. Raddall, Sr. in uniform while on leave in England with a non-uniformed man

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 21, Item 17
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, is a duplicate of MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 19, Item 6, and related to MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 19, Item 5 and MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 20, Item 9 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs and is related to materials in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1917-1927.

Photograph of the Mausoleum of Umar Suhrawardi

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 1
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of the Mausoleum of Umar Suhrawardi. The photograph was taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of unidentified soldiers

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 4
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of unidentified soldiers. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of people on horseback crossing a bridge

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 6
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of people on horseback crossing a bridge. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of unidentified soldiers and people

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 9
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of unidentified soldiers and people. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of unidentified soldiers crossing bridge with cart and donkeys

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 14
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of unidentified soldiers crossing a bridge with a cart and donkeys. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of people outside of a home

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 19
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of people outside of a home. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of unidentified soldiers and an artillery tractor

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 21
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of unidentified soldiers and an artillery tractor. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of unidentified soldiers raising flag

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 26
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of unidentified soldiers raising a flag. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of unidentified soldiers

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 28
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of unidentified soldiers. Soldiers on horseback appear to be pulling rope while other soldiers look on. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of Maude Bridge

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 34
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of Maude Bridge named after British army officer Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude. The photograph was taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of a section of the Ishtar Gate

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 36
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of a section of the Ishtar Gate at its original site in Babylon. The photograph was taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of three pelicans on a building

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Item 43
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of three pelicans on a building. The photograph was taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of a group of people

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 46
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of a group of people. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of a group of people in a rowboat

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 47
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of a group of people in a rowboat. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of people in a field

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 52
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of people in a field. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of people in a field

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 54
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of people in a field. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of people with horses

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 55
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

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.

Photograph of camels crossing a bridge

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 61
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of camels crossing a bridge. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of the Turkish Ottoman Memorial

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 78
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

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.

Business correspondence to William McMillan, Lockeport, regarding confirmation to ship goods, and receipt of shipments

MS-4-177, Box 29, Folder 3
File
1914

Part of Lockeport Historical Collection

File contains business correspondence addressed to (and a few written by) William McMillan, Lockeport, between June 1914 and October 1914, regarding receipt of shipment of goods to be sold in his general store, or confirmation of goods to be sent overseas. File contains both typed and handwritten correspondence. File also contains the beginnings of some merchants' concerns regarding shortages stemming from the outbreak of the Great War.

File contains correspondence regarding wartime concerns from the following receivers and brokers: W.R. Brock Company (Montreal; regarding French-made #80 DMC in cordenette white), Boston Varnish Company (regarding war-time price uncertainty), Brandram-Henderson (Halifax, regarding "import[ing certain goods] from countries where it is now impossible to obtain further supplies"), Chronicle Publishing Co. (Halifax, regarding the sale of "a history of the great conflict now raging in Europe" for two months at this stage), Greenshields Limited (Montreal, regarding a "good season for dress goods" despite the "war-time dullness of many lines" and the fact that "French goods are cut off entirely [and that some] raw materials such as dyestuffs come from Germany and Austria exclusively"), Holzapfels Limited (Newcastle-on-Tyne, reassuring clients that their company is "absolutely and entirely British"), J.L. Lovitt (Yarmouth, regarding the "feverish state of the wheat market" and reduced supplies), J.E. Morse & Co. (Halifax, about wartime demands having "completely exhausted [the supplies of] the popular selling teas"), Nova Scotia Belgian Relief Fund (Halifax; from Arthur Barnstead), Patterson Candy Company (Toronto, reassuring that they "have been strongly opposed to making any advance in price unless positively forced to it", and slamming those "who would delight in getting more for his product on account of the abnormal condition"), Oxford Manufacturing Company (Oxford, NS, "we are facing a famine in dyestuffs"), Quaker Oats Company (Peterborough, re: "extreme scarcity of cash oats [...compelling] us to put further advances into effect), W.H. Schwartz & Sons (Halifax, about the withdrawal of a printed list of supplies based on "the very uncertain conditions surrounding the spice business brought about by the war"), R.B. Seeton (Halifax, "we do not know from one day to another what the price will be"), E.K. Spinney (Yarmouth, regarding "the [appalling] effect of this horrible war on commercial conditions throughout the world"), Wm. Stairs, Son & Morrow (Halifax, assuring customers that "all prices will be based on ruling market price ONLY"), W.H. Thorne (Saint John, regarding the purchase of "patriotic selections" of records), Willett Martin (New York, anticipating that "stove coal will be very scarce during the Fall and Winter months"), Warwick Bros & Rutter (Toronto, about installing "patriotic windows").

File contains other standard business correspondence from: Acadia Gas Engine Co. (Bridgewater), Edward M. Alden (Boston), Edward Allen (Yarmouth), G.E. Barbour (Saint John), Sidney R. Baxter (Boston), A.M. Bell & Co. (Halifax), Geo. C. Boudreau (Meteghan Station, NS), Brookfield Bros. (Halifax), Burrell-Johnson Iron Company (Yarmouth), Canadian Cereal and Flour Mills (Galt, ON), Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co. (Halifax), Canadian Drug Co. (Saint John), Canadian Oil Companies (Toronto), Canadian Poster Company (Montreal, regarding a Stanfields promotion), Clayton & Sons (Halifax), Cochran, Burns & Farnsworth (Boston), McCormick & Stronach (Clementsport, NS), Davis & Fraser (Halifax), Davis & Lawrence (Montreal), Eagle Oil & Supply Co. (Boston), Eastern Shirts Limited (Truro), Emerson & Fisher (Saint John), Enterprise Foundry (Sackville, NB), Frank Fales (Saint John), Flintkote Manufacturing Company (Boston), Arthur Fordham (Halifax), John Forsyth Company (Berlin, ON), Gourock Ropework Export Co. (Montreal, via Glasgow), Gunns Limited (West Toronto), G.J. Hamilton & Sons (Halifax), Ida Harlow (Sable River West), Hawboldt & Evans (Chester), Hilford Fur Farm (Port Hilford, NS), N. Hingley & Sons (Dudley, UK), Ideal Bedding (Toronto), T. McAvity & Sons (Saint John), A. & W. MacKinlay (Halifax), Manchester Robertson Allison (Saint John), Maple Leaf Milling Co. (Saint John), Maritime Cap Limited (Moncton), Meeker & Company (New York), G.P. Mitchell & Sons (Halifax), J.L. Morton (Lower Argyle), J. & M. Murphy (Halifax), Neville Canneries (Port Mouton, NS), M.A. Nickerson (Clark's Harbour), Northern-Electric (Halifax), Parrish, Phillips & Co. (New York), Payzant & King (Halifax), Redmond Company Limited (Montreal), W.G. Robertson (Halifax), Salada Ceylon Tea (Montreal), W.E. Sanford (Hamilton, ON), Scovil Bros. (Saint John), I.B. Shaffner (Halifax), Shives Lumber Company (Campbellton, NB), Southern Salvage Company (Liverpool), H.D. Starratt (Paradise, NS), John Tobin & Co. (Halifax), Trojan Waist Co. (Philadelphia), Viscol Company (Boston), Waldron Drouin Co. (Montreal), Welsford L. Watt (Halifax), Wolverton Milling Co. (Saint John), Thomas Wood & Company (Boston), among others.

G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

MS-2-839
Fonds
1914 - 1919

Photographs of the World War I Amherst Internment Camp and a photograph from the Merchant Navy Protest

Prisoners of War at the Amherst Internment camp, No. 21

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 11, Item 2
Item
[ca. 1914 - 1918]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

Prisoners of War at the Amherst Internment camp, No. 28

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 12, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1914 - 1918]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

The item consists of the group of Prisoners of War standing with musical instruments.

Prisoners of War at the Amherst Internment camp, No. 29

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 12, Item 2
Item
[ca. 1914 - 1918]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

The item consists of the group of Prisoners of War standing with musical instruments.

Prisoners of War from the Internment Camp in Amherst, Nova Scotia with musical instruments

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 12, Item 3
Item
[ca. 1914 - 1918]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

The item consists of the group of Prisoners of War with musical instruments.

Prisoners of War at the Internment Camp in Amherst, Nova Scotia dressed as cooks

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 13, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1914 - 1918]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

Prisoners of War at the Amherst Internment camp, No. 164

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 14, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1914 - 1918]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

The item consists of a group of Prisoners of War standing around a building.

Photograph of George V at the grave of a soldier on the front lines of the Great War printed on a postcard

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 17, Item 1
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, is related to materials in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1917-1927. The photograph comes a collection of official photographs produced by the Daily Mail during the Great War. The Prince of Wales stands to the left of King George. Generals William Norris Congreve and Sir Henry Seymour Rawlinson are standing in the foreground on the right. General Congreve is identified with an x over his head, though the the identification may be erroneous.

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