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World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918, collection. – 1761-1968; predominant 1914-1918 . – 4.5 m of textual records
and other materials.
The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, post cards, maps,
manuscripts, typescripts, orders and other official documents, diagrams,
programmes, souvenirs, song-sheets, artwork, leaflets, sound recordings
and moving images, and printed materials.
The collection is predominantly British. It has been arranged as follows:
alphabetical by personal name (Boxes 1-7), official files (Boxes 8-11),
the Carlow aviation collection (Box 12), artwork (Box 13), Parliamentary
Recruiting Committee, London, leaflets (Box 14), Ville Libre de Dantzig
(Box 15), French and Belgian Generals letters collection (Box 16), printed
materials, maps, and other items (Box 17), sound recordings and moving
images (Box 18), photographs (Boxes 19-24), albums (numbered 1-73).
In addition to this collection, there are separate collection descriptions
and finding aids for posters, trench maps, and songs. This collection
is supplemented by books and pamphlets which have been catalogued for
Research Collections and maps held by the Map Library.
Researchers are also referred to the following fonds, collections, and
items most of which have been acquired since 1975. Instead of being added
to the collection, they have been described separately. Canadians have
been indicated; the remainder are predominantly British.
Jane Abbott
Albert Ernest Adams (Canadian)
Agnew family (Canadian)
James R. Allan (Canadian)
Norman Allatt (Canadian)
C.T. Atkinson
Gerald Blake
Michel Brisebois (collection of
leaflets dropped from the air)
Wallace Brett (Canadian)
Mrs. Bromley (Canadian)
John Gilbert Browne
Caiger Family
Canadian military photographs
Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force
H.M.S. Carnavon
F.B. Carron (Canadian)
Clingan family (Canadian)
E.S. Copeland (Canadian)
Diss Urban Military Service Local Tribunal
Bruce Doherty (Canadian)
Morris Drury (Canadian)
Engines (shipboard)
Daniel William Fraser (Canadian)
William Fingland (Canadian)
54th Battalion (Canadian)
Julian Gould
Adrian Grant Duff
Otto and Ada Hartmann (German)
William G. Haydon (Canadian)
John Hays (Canadian)
Betty M. B. Houghton
Jackson family
Evelyn Mae Kapitain
Lloyd's (firm) War Record
M-Class Destroyers
Sir John McNee (Gas Warfare)
John Innes Merrylees
Russell Markland
McGregor family (Canadian)
Military collection (includes Canadian material)
Military vehicles report (Royal
Army Service Corps, Baghdad)
J.A. Millen (Canadian)
Nash's magazine World War I
Herbert Lowe Nown(Canadian)
C.K. Ogden
Petrolia, Ontario Mayor's Office (Canadian)
Richard Parr
Photograph album
Pigeon Service message
D'Arcy Prendergast (Canadian)
James Henry Reid (Canadian)
Alfred Langsford Robinson (Canadian)
Bertrand Russell
Saarlouis Theatrical Committee
John Shelley
Marion S. Simpson (Canadian)
Roy Stephenson (Canadian)
Harold Brownlee Stuart (Canadian)
John E.S. Taylor (Canadian)
Clifford E. Timmons (Canadian)
Charles R. Totton (Canadian)
B.F. Trotter (Canadian)
Vimy Pilgrimage (Canadian)
United States Hospital Base No. 20 (also contains 2 photographs of Canadian graves at Vimy)
J.N. Weekes
Robert Whyte
Williams family
Robert Percy Wright (Canadian)
Y.M.C.A. of Canada
Title based on content of collection.
Collection was purchased, beginning presumably in 1971 on various occasions
from Bertram Rota. Beginning in 1975 records were kept of acquisitions
as they arrived. Those acquisitions have been described as separate but
related fonds, collections, and items.
Finding aid available in hard copy and electronically.
There are no access restrictions.
Further accruals are not expected.
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