Richard Hoken Joyce fonds

Joyce, Richard Hocken fonds. – 1915-1967. –  60 b&w photographs and 3 cm of textual records.

Series 1
Photographs. – 1917-1918. – 60 b&w photographs.

Box 1

Government of Canada official B&W photographs measuring 21.5 cm x 16.5 cm, mounted on one side of black, photo album pages, with the following captions:
1.            Huns caught by shrapnel in the open near Graincourt.
2.            Pozieres, walking towards Bapaume.
3.            Canal du Nord.
4.            Bridge blown up by Huns – Canal du Nord – Cambrai show 1917.
5.            Interior Arras Cathedral. 1917.
6.            Armagh Wood, from Observatory Ridge.
7.            Looking back (north) from Observatory Ridge.
8.            Zillebeke.
9.            Road from Poperinghe to Ypres.
10.          Dormy House.
11.          Laying duck-boards in mud.
12.          Arras-Cambrai Road.
13.          Wire in the Hun line – near Queant.
14.          Infantry going forward to attack – Cambrai 1917. [annotated arrow with label “Bourlon Wood”]
15.          Reserves waiting in the “push” March 1918.
16.          Machine-gun battery – Gheluveldt.
17.          Wire-cutting with high-explosive shells.
18.          Hun prisoners and British wounded.
19.          Tank crossing shallow trench or ditch.
20.          Heavy shell burst.
21.          A Belgian Farm.
22.          Monchy-A-Preux, June 1917.
23.          Anneux. [Allied tank and soldiers watch as german soldiers pass by carrying a stretcher]
24.          Ypres 1917.
25.          Any Front-line trench.
26.          Ypres – St. Martin’s Cathedral.
27.          Ypres 1917.
28.          Dead Hun machine gunner, Havrincourt.
29.          Front line trench – the “Loop.”
30.          “the mule-lines,” Lebucquiere – Nov 1917.
31.          Sanctuary Wood.
32.          Shelters, Sanctuary Wood.
33.          Looking east from Vimy Ridge.
34.          The moat, by the Lille Gate – Ypres.
35.          Huns surrendering – Arras show.
36.          King George, F.M. Sir D. Haig & Pres Poincaire.
37.          Preliminary Bombardment of Bullecourt and German line before the attack of May 3rd, 1917. Photo by aeroplane observer.
38.          Bridge destroyed by Huns – Canal du Nord – artillery ammu’n wagon driving through cutting.

B&W photographic portraits of Lieutenant R.H. Joyce:
39.          Close-up (head and shoulders) in uniform.
40.          Full figure In uniform with annotation, “Alice from Dick...1916.”
41.          Unit photograph “No. 15 Platoon, D Company, 58th Battalion” with Lieut. Joyce at front row, centre.

Panoramic photographs:
42.          Labelled on verso as, “No.37. Not a Chalk Pit: A Mine Crater.”
43.          Labelled on verso as, “No.43. ARRAS. There but for the Grace...[label torn]...Goes. London.”
44.          St. Martin’s Cathedral ruins, Ypres. Labelled on verso as, “0.2167...” [label torn and missing]

Vertical angle aerial photographs of:
45.-48.  Bullecourt and Hendecourt area. 18-20 August 1917.
49.-51. “Special Areas 9, 11 & 12” (Canal du Nord & Havrincourt Wood.21-23 September 1917.

Heavily annotated, oblique angle aerial photographs of:
52.-56.  Havrincourt and Bullecourt-Hendecourt areas.

Large format B&W photographs:
57.          “M.L.No.111 Bethune Arras Road.” 25.5 cm x 20 cm.
58.          “Clearing M.G. in Communication Trench.” 21.5 cm x 16.5.
1 large format, B&W photograph (21.5 cm x 16.5 cm) annotated, “Clearing M.G. in Communication Trench.”

B&W photographs:
59.          “Memorial 49th West-Riding Division Essex-Farm-Cemetery (showing Cross of Sacrifice).”
60.          “Crucifix at Camblineul. Decr. 1917.”


Series 2
Textual Records. – 1915-1967. – 3 cm of textual records.

Box 1
F.13        Certificate of Service. 1920.
F.14        Programme from the Church of St. Simon-the-Apostle. It notes that the Easter flowers are in memory of Richard Joyce who had died the previous Tuesday. 26 March 1967.
F.15        Diary. 19 July 1915-21 August 1919.

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