Finding Aid
Box 1
Series 1
Westdale Secondary School and McMaster University. – 1937-1942. – 8 cm of textual records and graphic material. – Title based on content of series.
- Westdale Highschool Rifle Club targets (pieces of paper that have been shot at)
- Rifle Club badge
- Sports Letters (2) for Badminton
- List of Westdale students “who have paid the supreme sacrifice in this war”
- Group photograph (all teachers?), [193-].
- Group photograph with man, hands on knees, middle of front row. Donnelly is in second to back row, second from right, white collar, dark tie and dark sweater/jacket
- Group photograph with tall woman/girl in black in middle of front row. Donnelly is in rear row, fourth from left with two girls right in front of him
- Group photograph with man, folded arms, in middle front row. Donnelly is centre of one of the back rows, wearing white collar and dark tie, with two girls right in front of him.
- Football team: Hamilton Intercollegiate Champions. Westdale 1938. Donnelly does not appear to be in this photograph.
- Le Raconteur, Coronation Number 1937.
-Three group photographs (framed), Westdale High School
Top photograph: Inscribed “Rifle Team-Westdale 1937”. Donnelly is second to the right, seated second row in light jacket with tie
Middle photograph: Inscribed “Badminton Team-Westdale 1937”. Donnelly is third from the right, seated front row, wearing a T-shirt with striped collar
Bottom photograph: Inscribed “Basketball Team-Westdale 1937”. Donnelly is on the far left, seated, middle row, in suit jacket and tie
McMaster University
- Biology - Essay - 31 October 1941
- Biology 10 - holograph notes
- Philosophy notes
- Physics I - notes
- English? essays (3 short essays)
- Literary Appreciation essays (short)
- Biology notes
- Biology exam, 1941
- Pamphlet: Concerning McMaster
- McMaster University Calendar, 1941-42. Faculty of Arts
- Three issues of The McMaster University Quarterly (April 1940; January 1941; March 1941)
- Marmor, 1941
Series 2
WW II materials. – 1941-1947. – 24 cm of textual records, graphic materials, and cartographic materials. – Title based on content of series.
- Orange folder containing misc. items, including newsclippings about WMD, paybook, carbon ts. from WMD Capt. to C.O. Belgian SAS Regt, 1945, re repatriation and rehabilitation of Cdn Personnel (1 p.); handwritten synopsis of military service (by WMD); active service certificate; photographs (indoor shot, two rows of soldiers: WMD is first row, 3rd from right; outdoor shot - could not confidently identify WMD in this photograph)
- New World Illustrated issue, photographs of Jean Blackburn in uniform
- B&w photograph, “B” Coy. C.W.A.C. No. 2 B.T.C. Kitchener, Ont, 17 Nov. 1942 (oversize).
- Small leatherette map case with detailed maps of England. On interior of upper lid: “Indices of Military Editions ... Printed by the Ordinance Survey ... War Office, 1941
- Framed “Certificate of Military Qualifications, Canadian Army” noting completion of course qualifying Wallace McClung Donnelly as Lieutenant, Canadian Army Corps (AF), 2 December 1942
-Brown folder on front in white “Lieut W.M. Donnelly”. Includes “Provisional Notes on the General Sherman Tank” (mimeographed with tabs); pamphlet loosely inserted: “Supplement No. 1 to Army Training Memoranda 1944. Japanese Morale. ... December 1944”. Includes “Headquarters ‘E’ Group, Canadian Reinforcement Units. Confidential, 10 Mar [19]44”, some technical diagrams, :Minutes of Wireless Training Conference, 10 April 1944”, etc.
- Green folder: “Precis on Aviation Medicine from Institute of Aviation Medicine. RCAF STS Toronto Ont.” [some materials are 1944]
- Brown Folder: “Notes on Tuning and Operating - Etc.” Wireless Training notes, mimeographed, diagrams, etc.
- Brown folder: “R.A.C. O.C.T.U., Sandhurst. Wireless Wing. Note and Standing Orders”. Holograph and mimeographed notes. Includes pamphlet: “Der Fiend Hort Mit (The enemy listens too) - Seven Steps to Slidex” published by The War Office, June 1944.
- Photographs:
- B&w group photograph, men on steps, n.d. stamped “Canadian Military Photograph” Photo No. 46337.
- B & w group photograph, men on chairs, standing, “O.T.C. Brockville Ont. June 1942 C.T.A.A. ‘F’ Coy. Platoon #20 lower right inscribed “Murray photograph”
- B & w group photograph, framed, “Royal Military College”, “Wireless Wing, R.A.C. O.C.T.U., Sandhurst May, 1944”. Donnelly is seated in the second row from the front, fifth from the left. (oversize)
- B & w group photograph, framed, “E. Squadron, No. 1. C.A.C.R.U., England. Feb. 1944”. The Service Photo Co. Pirbright Surrey 1862l (oversize). Donnelly is seated in the front row, second man to the left of the centre commander
- Royal Canadian Dragoons dress uniform crest
- RMC Troop Farewell Dinner programs, 1944, and 30 Troop Passing-Out Dinner, 1944, and related items
- Ephemera: Fyffes Line postcard; luggage note, Great Western Ry; photograph + proof of photograph, men in uniform, Donnelly not in photo; tin label “Lt. W.M. Donnelly”; paper currency (three German; two Belgian, two Dutch); railway ticket stubs (England and one Canadian Military ticket); membership cards to clubs in London and [Paris?] including an invitation and autographed photograph – “Frisco’s” Club ephemera
- Gun permit, Hamilton, 1940
- Montreal address of person related to/from Belgian Parachute Regiment
- 1947 entry tag from Flying Display and Admittance Badge
Box 2
Series 3
Military manuals and other related books. – 1937-1949. – 17 cm of textual records. – Title based on content of series.
Pocket New Testament, 1939 (British & Foreign Bible Society)
Signal Training, Volume I: War and Training,1937. (with one-page holograph note inserted)
Signal Training, Volume III. Pamphlet No. 24. Aerials, 1939 (Repr. in Canada, 1941)
Signal Training. Volume III. Pamphlet No. 25. Wireless Set No. 9. 1940 (London, The War Office, 1940)
Signal Training. Volume III. Pamphlet No. 26. Switchboards U.C. 10-Line and 6-Line 1940 (Repr in Canada, 1941)
Signal Training. Volume III. Pamphlet No. 29. Wavemeter, Class C, No. 1 and Crystal Unit. 1942. (The War Office, 1942).
Signal Training. Volume III. Pamphlet No. 34. Wireless Set No. 18. Part I - Operating Instructions. 1942. (The War Office, 1942).
Signal Training. Volume III. Pamphlet No. 34. Wireless Set No. 18. Part II- Technical Description and First Line Maintenance. 1942. (The War Office, 1942).
Signal Training Pamphlet No. 2. Part IV. - Selection of Frequencies for Medium Distance Wireless Communication. 1941. (The War Office, 1941).
Signal Training (All Arms). Pamphlet No. 1. Signalling Codes. 1942. (The War Office, 1942).
Signal Training (All Arms). Pamphlet No. 2. Visual Signalling. 1942. (The War Office, 1942).
Signal Training (All Arms). Pamphlet No. 3. Electricity and Line Signalling, 1942. (The War Office, 1942).
Signal Training (All Arms). Pamphlet No. 4. Wireless Signalling 1942. (The War Office, 1942).
Signal Training (All Arms). Pamphlet No. 5. Signal Procedure. Part I: Procedure for Radio Telephony. 1943. (The War Office, 1943).
Signal Training (All Arms). Pamphlet No. 5. Signal Procedure. Part II: Procedure for Morse Telegraphy, Line Telephony, and Visual Signalling, 1943. (The War Office, 1943).
Signal Training (All Arms). Pamphlet No. 5. Signal Procedure. Part III: Combined Joint Radiotelephone (RT) Procedure 1943. (The War Office, 1943).
Signal Training (All Arms). Pamphlet No. 7. RT Procedure. Part I - RT for Users. 1945. (The War Office, 1945).
Signal Training (All Arms). Pamphlet No. 7. RT Procedure. Part II - RT for Operators. 1945. (The War Office, 1945).
Signal Training (All Arms). Pamphlet No. 7. RT Procedure. Part III - Appendices. 1945. (The War Office, 1945).
Signal Training (All Arms). Pamphlet No. 8. Signal Office Working. 1942. (The War Office, 1942).
Signal Training (All Arms). Pamphlet No. 9. Training. 1942. (The War Office, 1942).
Field Service Regulations Volume II. Operations - General. 1935. (Ottawa, 1942).
Small Arms Training. Volume I, Pamphlet No. 1. Weapon Training. (The War Office, 1942).
Small Arms Training. Volume 1, Pamphlet No. 3. Rifle. (The War Office, 1942).
Working Instructions: Wireless Set No. 19 Mark II (As Manufactured in Canada and the U.S.A.). (Director of Signals Design, ... Canada, 1942).
Notes on Courts of Inquiry/Notes sure les conseils d’enquete. (Ottawa, 1942)
G.H.Q. Home Forces. Standing Orders and Instructions for Exercises (3rd edition). (Ottawa, reprinted 1943)
Medium Tank M4A2. Technical Manual No. 9-731B. War Department, Washington. January 13, 1943. 403 pp.
The Tactical Handling of the Armoured Division and its Components. Military Training Pamphlet No. 41. Part 1: The tactical handling of Armoured Divisions. 1943 (2 copies).
The Tactical Handling of the Armoured Division and its Components. Military Training Pamphlet No. 41. Part 1: The tactical handling of Armoured Divisions. 1943.
[Several small pamphlets in brown case, relating to tanks and armoured vehicles, including: Parade Maintenance: Crew Duty Card, Sherman V; Parade Maintenance: Crew Duty Card. Staghound Armoured Car; Sherman V Tank: Crew Maintenance, 1943. Published in Great Britain.]
Tank Country. (The War Office, 1943)
Field Service Pocket Book. Various pamphlets bound together in red binding. 1943 and 1944.
Field Service Pocket Book. Part 1 - Pamphlet No. 4. Appreciations, Orders, Messages, and Intercommunication. (The War Office, [UK], June 1944)
Regulations for Divers of M.T. Vehicle and Universal Carriers and Motorcyclists, 1944. (Ottawa, reprinted 1944).
Royal Armoured Corps. Weapon Training. Military Training Pamphlet No. 34. Part 4. Tank Fire Tactics. 1944. (Reprinted in Canada, 1944).
Royal Armoured Corps. Military Training Pamphlet No. 65. The use of Wireless in Armoured Formations. 1944. The War Office, March 1944. (2 copies)
Netting Drill and Maintenance: Wireless Set No. 19. 1944 (Prepared under the Direction of The Chief of the General Staff) (2 copies)
The Co-operation of Tanks with Infantry Divisions. Military Training Pamphlet No. 63. (The War Office, 1944).
Brochure sur l’administration no 3: Rédaction des ordres d‘unité/Administrative Pamphlet No. 3: Preparation of Unit Orders. (Ottawa, 1944).
Carriage of Army Equipment by Air: General. The War Office, 1945. Supplement No. 1 to Army/Air Operations. Pamphlet No. 4 (Chapter 3). 34 pp. with loose inserts.
Royal Canadian Armoured Corps. August 1945.
Guide for Students. The Infantry School. Fort Benning, Georgia, August-1946.
The Principles of Training (Ottawa, 1946) 67 pp.
Tank Medium M4A2 75-mm Gun Wet. Crew Maintenance. (U.S.?, 1947)
The King's Regulations and Orders for The Canadian Army, 1939. (Ottawa: 1947).
Reference Data. Air Transportability. 1 March 1947. (The Infantry School. Fort Benning, Georgia)
Royal Armoured Corps Training. Volume I: Tactics. Pamphlet No. 1 - The Armoured Regiment. (Reprinted in Canada, Aug 1948).
Sherman “A” Tanks Armament. 76 mm. M1 Guns. (Ottawa, 1949) (2 copies)
Box 3
Series 4
Post-WW II army materials. – 1947-2005. – 64 cm of textual records. – Title based on content of series. Many documents are mimeographed and typed.
Joint Air School materials in folder labelled “Exercises”, likely all late 1940s
Includes:
- Summary of the report of the president's air policy commission
- Composite air support course, offensive report "queer octopus"
- Information obtained from Thompson Bros. Golf Architects
Green folder labelled “Donnelly”
- Joint air school, army wing Syllabus: Air Portability Instructors Course
Plain folder
- Joint Air School, Army Wing: Offensive Support, Artillery Reconnaissance
Folder labelled: Lt. W.M. Donnelly, Canadian Army No. 24: Offensive Support Course No. 31
Canadian Army Study Papers
Includes:
- Tactics 8 Infantry Batallion In the Night Attack
- Supporting Arms in the Defence
- Joint Air School Training Wing, Airborne Group, Air Transportability Instructors Course
Folder labelled: Central Fighter Establishment, R.A.F. West Raynham. A.L.O.’s Course Stage 1. Unit Administration. (Lt. W.M. Donnelly’s name written on upper corner)
- mimeographed documents with numbered tabs affixed to individual pages.
Canadian Army Study Papers includes
- Organization and the Principals of Employment of all Arms
- and other documents
Folder: Department of National Defence Army Folder: labelled “Offensive Support, Lieut. W.M. Donnelly”; includes Joint Air School materials
Envelope labelled: “Staff Techniques. Capt. Donnelly”; includes: “Canadian Army Study Papers”, topographical of Kingston ON area and another map.
Black folder: all Canadian Joint Air Training Centre, Transport Air Support School; numerous mimeographed sections
Plain folder:
- Includes Visit of Canadian Army Air Staff Officers to Air Wing, School of Artillery, 13-16 October 1947 and numerous mimeographed documents (Air Training Wing: R.A.S.C., etc.)
Envelope labelled: Department of National Defence: “ORG War”
- more Canadian Army Study Papers
Paper Binder labelled “School of Land/Air/Warfare. R.A.F. Old Sarum. Folder for Précis. No. 5 Course” Transport Support”
- all mimeographed course materials
Envelope labelled “ADM”
- Canadian Army Study Papers: Administration in Canada
Orange folder labelled “School of Land/Air Warfare. Offensive Support Exercises” Lieut. Donnelly
Orange folder labelled “RCN Airlift. Dartmouth – Rivers”. Lt. W.M. Donnelly
- some documents 1948
Folder labelled: “No. 2 A.L. O's Course C.F.E. .... Lt. W.M. Donnelly R.C.A.C.”
- Includes course documents
Folder labelled “Lt. W.M. Donnelly. No. 2 Air Liaison Officers Course. School of Land/Air Warfare. Old Sarum”
- course documents
Folder - Advanced Airborne Course
- Certificate from The Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia. 1947.
Box 4
Documents with Department of National Defence - Army top sheet. “Captain W.M. Donnelly. Set of Precis, Plays and Exercises, pertaining to Offensive Air Support. Rivers, 21 Apr. 1949”
- Mostly Canadian Joint Air Training Centre documents
Envelope labelled “ORG Peace”
- Canadian Army Studies Papers
Topographical map of Petawawa, annotated.
Yellow folder on which is printed “Canadian Army Study Papers”
-includes three copies of Canadian Army Journal (Jun-Aug 1949)
- Army Headquarters Command and Staff Course, Dec. 12 1949 and accompanying mimeographed notes
- Loose sheets, some holograph notes with various Canadian Army Study Papers.
- Yellow folder: “Canadian Army Study Papers .... Subject: Mil. Law”; includes mimeographed sheets relating to military law
- Folder: Department of National Defence; includes Joint Air School Training Wing - Airborne Group. Air Transportability Instructors' Course, Part I. mimeographed and holograph notes
- Yellow folder: Canadian Army Study Papers; qualification examination papers, 1950, Officers’ Qualifying Examinations, 1950 and Introduction
- Loose papers: “Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Secret.”, “School of Naval Air Warfare. Visual Training, Part I”
Copies of Royal Canadian Dragoon publications:
The Springbok Newsletter, 30 May 1960
The Springbok, 5 vols., 1946 and 1946.
The Springbok. Year Book 1950-51, Petawawa, ON
Another newsletter, 1946.
The Link Magazine, Joint Air School, Rivers, Man. November 1948, vol. 1, edition 6 (includes “Prayer for Paratroopers” by A.W. Purdy, Vancouver BC), and March 1949, vol. 2, no, 2.
- General cash book: Grenade Theatre. Capt. W.M. Donnelly; entries on first few pages only, Sept 1949
Printed materials: Pay and Allowance Regulations for the Canadian Army 1946 (to be put into small binder) and a similar copy in red binder
- Brown folder: Air Transportability Pamphlet; includes Advance Airborne Division, Air Transportability, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1946
B&w photograph: Officer Commanding and Officers, Kent Reg. Niagara Camp, March 1946 (oversize)
Orange folder
Joint Air School, Army Wing, Transport Support Course - appears to be 1948, Rivers Manitoba
Black binder - holograph notes titled “6 weeks - Advanced Airborne Course. Ft. Benning”
Exercise book "A.A.T.D.C. Lt. Wm. Donnelly. Air Transportability. 10 Feb '48"
- Hamilton Officers’ Club membership, 1961, 1969
- Letter DND to WMD, 1951 re balance of pay, and paybooks
- Cdn. Armed Services Leave Form, 1950
- Envelope containing SAS Regimental Newsletters, 1990s roughly
- Congratulatory letters to Donnelly re Croix de guerre, from Major Blondelle, Belgian S.A.S.; from Belgian Ambassador; from Major-General E.G. Weeks); copies of Special Air Service Association’s The Regimental Gazette, nos. 24026, 1954
- Biographical information about Donnelly and obituaries
- Notes taken by WMD while in Churchill, Manitoba, 1950: on note pad (Government of Canada No. 5A), labelled “Capt. W.M. Donnelly. Red Secret DMT Observer - Exercise ‘Sundog’” and on note pad (Government of Canada Reporter’s Note Book).
- SAS Regimental Association luncheon (Toronto) programs, menus (1997, 2005)
- folded mimeographed (2 pp) titled "Operation Orders" and "Appreciations" with holograph notes in pen on outside of one page
- Metropolitan Hamilton Real Estate Board. Long Service Awards Recipients - May 4, 1979 (poster). Includes Bud Donnelly.
- The Canadian Real Estate Association. Twenty-five Year Certificate of Recognition-December 20, 1995 (certificate)
- Hamilton Remembers 1945-1995. Presented to Wallace M. Donnelly R.C.D. S.A.S.-May 8, 1995 signed by Robert M. Morrow, Mayor
