Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
The 137th Battalion Association was established in Calgary, Alberta in 1920 to hold annual reunion dinners of former 137th Battalion members. These dinners continued regularly until 1956, then from 1958 to1960. In 1965 a group gathered to clean up and repair the field-stone Battalion numbers and later another reunion was held. In 1967 the group promoted the naming of a Calgary bridge after 137th Battalion Victoria Cross winner John G. Pattison and began the construction of a memorial in Glenmore Park that was dedicated in June 1968. The group's final reunion was in 1971. For further information see A Legacy of Courage : "Calgary's own" : 137th Overseas Battalion, C. E. F. / Fred Bagley & Dr. Harvey Daniel Duncan. -- Calgary : Plug Street Books, 1993.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Gift of 137th Battalion Association, 1972.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The fonds consists of poems, booklets and other documents. Also consists of photographs of the 137th battalion at Sarcee Army Camp and in England; and working on construction and maintenance of field-stone numbers and Glenmore Park memorial.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling