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 a section of the Ishtar Gate at its original site in Babylon. The photograph was taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.
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.
Item is a glass plate lantern slide of people outside of unidentified buildings. 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. Three of the people are each holding a card with a large number 2 on it. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.
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.
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.
Item is a glass plate lantern slide of unidentified soldiers with carts in the desert. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.
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 unidentified soldiers and horses near camp. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.
Item is a glass plate lantern slide of an unidentified soldier and a group of people. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.
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.
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 unidentified soldiers on horseback in water. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.
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.
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.
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
Items, negatives, are related to materials found in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph albums, 1917-1927, and 1929-1941, and MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 1, Item 4 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs.
Item, a photograph, is a duplicate of MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 20, Item 4 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. Raddall, Sr. had just recovered from being wounded when the photograph was taken.
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.
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.
Item may have been a page in one of Thomas Head Raddall's photograph albums. The photographs are an assortment from T.H. Raddall, Sr.'s military career. The top photograph appears to be related to MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 16, Item 2 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs, and was likely taken at the Reach Field shooting range in Hythe, Kent, England. The photograph on the bottom left is a duplicate of MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 20, Item 2 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs, and was taken at Valcartier Camp, Quebec.
Item is a duplicate of a photograph in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1929-1941. The photograph was taken near the headquarters of the 8th Battalion of the 90th Winnipeg Rifles during the First World War. The headquarters was located near the corner o the woods at the left of the picture. The 8th Battalion had to cover the open ground to the right under heavy machine gun fire where the Germans had occupied an old trench. Thomas Head Raddall's father, Col. Raddall, Sr., personally directed the 8th Battalion's attack. He crossed the road in the photograph and was killed about a quarter-mile past in the open ground to the right.
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.
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.
Item, a photograph, is likely to have been in Winnipeg, Manitoba at the Royal Winnipeg Rifles Regiment Museum & Archives. T.H. Raddall, Sr.'s military medals are on display on the top shelf of the cabinet on the left hand side.
Item, a photograph, is likely to have been taken in Winnipeg, Manitoba at the Royal Winnipeg Rifles Regiment Museum & Archives. The curator is likely Max Abrams.
Item, a photograph, is related to MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 11, Item 5, and duplicate to materials in MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 22, Item 12 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs.
Item, a photograph, is related to MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 11, Item 5 and MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 22, Item 12 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. T.H. Raddall, Sr.'s name is inscribed on the war memorial. He was killed in action at Amiens, France on August 9, 1918.