Archives Catalogue

Correspondence and newspaper clippings regarding the Can Loan Program

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 6
File
1939-1946, 1976

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Portrait of the Canadian Artillary Reinforcement Unit Athletic Staff instructors group

MS-2-252, Box 5, Folder 3
File
1942, 1976

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Fle contains a portrait of the Canadian Artillary Reinforcement Unit Athletic Staff instructors group. File also contains a letter to Roome by Edwin Hartley Leatherand a pamphlet titled Combat Without Weaponswritten by Leather.

Military records

Series
1915-1976

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

This series consists of records created or accumulated by Roome during his military career. The series spans both world wars and includes records from Roome's time as Brigadier and Deputy Adjutant General. The series primarily contains memorandums, reports, military maps, and other administrative records but it also includes passes, correspondence, and related materials.

Reconnaissances and appreciations of the military significance of the area adjacent to Halifax from the point of view of defence of Halifax fortress : together with a report on an operations scheme conducted by the group / United Services Institute of Nova Scotia, Military Study Group

MS-2-252, Box 1, Folder 7
File
1940, 1975

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Investiture at Government House in Halifax Nova Scotia

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 4
File
1954 - [ca. 1960]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

File also contains a photograph of the Corps of Commissionaires meeting in Halifax.

Richard Edward Graham Roome's research materials on the American Civil War

Series
1950-1960

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

This series consists of research materials created or accumulated as a result of Roome's interest in the American Civil War. The series primarily contains pamphlets and research notes. See File 5-15 in the the Lectures and addresses series for typescripts and manuscripts of Roome's articles on the American Civil War.

Landscape photographs of Vicksburg National Military Park

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 17
File
1956-1960

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

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

Lectures and addresses

Series
1919, 1941-1956

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

This series contains manuscript and typescript lectures and addresses given by Roome at locations across Canada, including the Royal Military College in Kingston and the Canadian Officers' Training Corps (COTC). Topics include the campaign in Mesopotamia, military leadership, and the American Civil War.

Notes and research material on the American Civil War

MS-2-252, Box 4, Folder 1
File
1956

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of Richard Roome, Admiral Rollo Mainguy, Major-General Edward Plow, and two other officers

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 3, Item 3
Item
[1955?]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item consists of a photograph from a reunion of artillery officers, in Halifax, sometime in the early 1950s. Pictured include Rollo Mainguy, Richard Roome, Edward Plow, and two others (Ross and Oland).

Lectures given at the Canadian Officers' Training Corps

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 5
File
[ca. 1950]-1953

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Address given at the Gunners' anniversary

MS-2-252, Box 1, Folder 4
File
1952

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of Brigade Major Faulkner presenting a clock to Brigadier Richard Roome

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 3, Item 4
Item
1951

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of a meeting of Artillery HQ officers from the 5th Infantry Division

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 3, Item 2
Item
[1951?]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

The National Defence Act : test paper

MS-2-252, Box 3, Folder 9
File
1950-1951

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of a meeting of senior officers of the 5th Division, Artillery, in Halifax

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 3, Item 7
Item
[1950?]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item consists of a photograph of fifteen officers from the 5th Infantry Division, Artillery, attending a reunion in Halifax, likely in 1950. Those identified include Richard Roome, Brigade Major Faulkner, George Rogers, as well as another in the front row identified as "Laing". Eleven remain unidentified.

Portraits of Roome as deputy adjutant general (officers)

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 20
File
1945-1950

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of a reunion dinner of the families of officers of the 5th Artillery Infantry Division

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 3, Item 1
Item
[1950?]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item consists of a photograph of members of the Faulkner, Guildford, Roome, Fetterley, and Buell families, as well as another unidentified pair, taken at a reunion dinner in Halifax, likely in 1950

Photograph of Richard Roome arriving at an event at Royal Artillery Park

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 3, Item 6
Item
[1950?]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph from a dinner at the Royal Artillery Park Officers' Mess in Halifax

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 3, Item 5
Item
[1950?]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item consists of a photograph of a dinner in the Officers' Mess of Royal Artillery Park, Halifax, likely in 1950. Pictured include Richard Roome, Rollo Mainguy, George Foster, and seven others (names mentioned include Kinley, Simmonds, and King; four others remain unidentified).

Photograph of Richard Roome, Major-General Edward Plow, and other senior officers from 5th Infantry Division Artillery, in Halifax

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 3, Item 8
Item
[1950?]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item consists of a photograph of a dinner among senior officers of the 5th Infantry Division, Artillery, held in Halifax, likely in 1950. Eighteen officers are pictured. Front row is of Richard Roome and Major-General Edward Plow; back row identified include George Richardson (1), Captain E.H. MacDonald (3), D.U. Rainnie (6), W.C. Waterfield (8), and M.E. Blue (10).

Photograph of Richard Roome as aide-de-camp to Governor General Vincent Massey

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 20, Item 2
Item
1950

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

List of colonels for retirement

MS-2-252, Box 1, Folder 8
File
1945-1946

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Personal correspondence as Deputy Adjutant General

MS-2-252, Box 3, Folder 18
File
1945-1946

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Incoming and outgoing thank you letters

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 13
File
1943-1946

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Personal correspondence regarding various military affairs and appointments

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 13
File
1943-1946

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Correspondence of Richard Edward Graham Roome

Series
1942-1946

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

This series contains Roome’s personal correspondence during and directly after World War II. Additional correspondence is interspersed throughout the fonds.

Memorandums and reports regarding military honours and awards

MS-2-252, Box 1, Folder 6
File
1945

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

A matter of courses at the Army School of Phraseology

MS-2-252, Box 1, Folder 9
File
1945

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Appendix and annexure "B" to routine order no. 5950 : campaign stars and the defense medal

MS-2-252, Box 3, Folder 10
File
1945

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Poetry

MS-2-252, Box 3, Folder 13
File
1945

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Order by the Adjutant-General no. 22-1945 : visit of Field Marshall Jan Christen Smuts

MS-2-252, Box 3, Folder 15
File
1945

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

VI Corps intelligence summary no. 14 and notes on the first forty days of World War One

MS-2-252, Box 3, Folder 16
File
1916-1945

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Lists of officers in Canadian Army

MS-2-252, Box 3, Folder 7
File
1945

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Memorandums and reports regarding military honours and awards

MS-2-252, Box 1, Folder 5
File
1945

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Notebook kept as Deputy Adjutant General

MS-2-252, Box 4, Folder 2
File
1943-1945

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Personal correspondence as Deputy Adjutant General

MS-2-252, Box 3, Folder 17
File
1944-1945

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Diaries

Series
1915-1945

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

This series contains diaries kept by Roome during his military career. Diaries were primarily kept during World War One and World War Two, but some entries exist from the interwar years.

Photograph of Richard Roome as Deputy Adjutant General

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 20, Item 1
Item
1945

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Newspaper clippings regarding lectures given by Roome

MS-2-252, Box 5, Folder 5
File
1919-1945

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Correspondence regarding an army art show and army entertainment unit no. 16

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 15
File
1945

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Congratulatory letters regarding R.E.G. Roome's appointment as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 19
File
1945

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of a reunion dinner for the 28th battery of the 5th regiment held in Newcastle

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 8, Item 5
Item
November 20 1945

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Diaries kept during World War Two

MS-2-252, Box 1, Folder 3
File
1941-1944

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

File contains four diaries.

Canadian Army Routine Orders Nos. 5055-5068 = Ralston's last message

MS-2-252, Box 3, Folder 4
File
1944

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of Richard Roome and three unidentified officers of the No. 7 Operational Training Unit, Debert

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 9, Item 3
Item
[1943 or 1944]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Lectures given at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario and related correspondence

MS-2-252, Box 1, Folder 1
File
1942-1944

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of Richard Roome and six unidentified officers sitting in the Black Watch mess, Sussex, New Brunswick

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 8, Item 7
Item
1943

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Training in Debert, Nova Scotia and Tracadie, New Brunswick

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 9
File
1942-1943

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

File includes black and white photographs depicting training and camp activities of the 7th Division Artillery (RCA) at Tracadie, New Brunswick in 1943. One photo is of training at Debert, Nova Scotia. File also contains newspaper clippings.

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