Finding Aid
Herbert Lowe Nown fonds. – 1893-1920. – 6 cm of textual records, graphic material and realia.
Box 1:
F.1 Birth certificates of Herbert Nown and of his wife, born Alice Maude Pollard on 13 June 1893 in Bradford
F.2 Framed tin portrait of Nown in uniform
F.3 Cap pin for uniform hat, 81 Overseas, Canada
F.4 Nown’s will, 22 April 1916
F.5 Telegraph to Nown’s wife, 20 October 1916, informing her of his death on 10 October; sympathy letter of 31 October from Sam Hughes, Minister of Militia and Defence for Canada
F.6 Burial reports and letters, 1917 and 1920; Canadian Expeditionary Force death certificate, 8 April 1919
F.7 Photograph of grave headstone
F.8 Memorial Cross GR V: This cross was issued as a memento of personal loss and sacrifice to widows. Engraved on the verso is Nown’s name and serial number.
F.9 Commemorative plaque and scroll – the plaque is cast in bronze and measures 125 cm in diameter. The plaque was commonly called a “dead man’s penny”.
Oversize items:
Photograph of B Company, 81st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Niagara Camp, 1915. B&w; extreme oversize: Location 8L
Photograph of officers and non-commissioned officers of B Company, 81st Battalion, Toronto, Ontario, n.d.; oversize: Location, map cabinet 38.
Memorial poster, 1918 or later. Information on Nown’s service and death is pasted into the centre of a gold maple leaf surrounded by lists of battles and images of memorials and the Regina Trench Military Cemetery. Location: map cabinet 38
Book: S.G. Bennett, The 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles, 1914-1919, has been kept with the fonds. Another copy is held by Archives and Research Collections, D547.C2B43.
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