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CA ACU TMM F0151 · Fonds · 1885

Consists of two sketches that fit together, titled by Wadmore, Panoramic View of Battleford, and dated June 1885. Also includes two sheets of contextual information supplied by auction house.

Wadmore, Robinson Lyndhurst
CA ACU TMM F0098 · Fonds · 1894, 1942-2018

Collection consists of original (25%) and copied (75%) research material related to the history of the Canadian Airborne Regiment. It includes correspondence, taped interviews and transcripts, and photocopies of related material held at various American, Canadian and British archives and museums.

The collection comprises Michel Wyczynski and Bernd Horn's research material over the course of six co-authored books, chapters in military anthologies, and dozens of articles published in Canada, the United States, and Britain.

Wyczynski, Michel
Terence W.H. Thompson Fonds
CA ACU TMM F0140 · Fonds · 1916-1919

Consists of 14 letters written by Thompson to his sisters during his time of service in WWI. Also includes an excerpt from a trench mortar manual and several notes typed by Thompson later in life contextualizing the letters.

Douglas Sallis fonds
CA ACU TMM F0099 · Fonds · 1920-2009

Consists of photograph albums, military service records, training material related to the military and medical career and travels of Douglas Sallis.

Sallis, Douglas Arnold
CA ACU TMM F0073 · Fonds · 1910-1917

Fonds consists of trench maps of various scales that were used in the operations of the 19th Battalion during their time at the front. Also includes a set of field message books with carbons intact that record Gidley's wartime communications with other officers. Materials were originally created and gathered by Gidley in his capacity as commanding officer of the 19th Battalion, B Company. Fonds has been divided into three series: Maps, Field Notebooks, and Miscellaneous.

Henderson, Charles Arnold
James Reid fonds
CA ACU TMM F0147 · Fonds · 1897, 1908-1970

Fonds consists of material related to the experience of James Reid (and to a lesser extent his brother John) while in Canada leading up to WWI, throughout Reid's time of service for the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the war, and then for some years after the war recording Reid's life in Calgary, Alberta.
Fonds is divided into 7 series suggested largely by the enclosing envelopes in which the donation was originally recieved from the estate of Reid's niece. These are:

  1. Lumber Camp Days
  2. Correspondence, WWI
  3. Photographs
  4. Notes to Self
  5. German material
  6. Post-war material
  7. Miscellaneous
Reid, James
CA ACU TMM C0152 · Collection · 1914-1919

Material consists of print-based propaganda produced during WWI in Italy. Much of the later dated propaganda in this collection is government or army ("Armata") produced through Italy's "Service P" initiative. Some of the material bears marks of previous ownership by way of the stamped initials, "A.T.".

Servizio P
Elmer J. Ainsworth fonds
CA ACU TMM F0152 · Fonds · 1939-1945

Fonds primarily consists of letters sent home by Ainsworth to his mother and father in Red Deer, Alberta. Fonds also includes a small amount of correspondence from other people as well as items of service for Ainsworth.

Ainsworth, Elmer Jackson
Otto Meir Fonds
CA ACU TMM F0065 · Fonds · [191-] - 1947

Fonds consists of photographs created or collected by Otto Meier or members of his family. 10 of the images pertain to the German experience of WWI, the remainder pertain to Meier's family and friends post WWI.

Meier, Otto