Two copies of a 328-page paperback book detailing the military campaigns of the Canadian Army during World War 2. One of the copies is signed by the author A. Donald McKay.
The pre-printed blank note is folded twice ( 9.5 x 15 cm) . Font reads: "60/76th Field Battery, R.C.A., C.A.S.F. 17th Field Regiment" and inside reads: "Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year". Handwritten on the front reads: "Xmas 1940"
Contains about 25 pages with: information about: the Battle of Otterloo (Netherlands) on April 16/17, 1945; the 1th Canadian Light Horse; an excerpt of writing by Governor-General The Marquis of Lorne, about the Bell Farm; excerpts (1884-1896) from the Vidette about Major Bell and the Bell Farm selected by Marg Hryniuk in 2009; biography of Major Bell from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
Two newspaper articles about Arnold Dales clipped out of different issues of the Indian Head - Wolseley News. One is about his Lancaster bomber being shot down in WWII and his time in a German POW camp. The other clipping is about his time as mayor of Indian Head from 1981 to1988.
Posed group photo, mounted on thick fibreboard, of 33 people - presumably Legion members - who celebrated V.E. Day. The people are named and a list of 42 names of members who were absent from the photo.
A posed group photo of about 120 veterans of the 17th Field Regiment at a reunion in Regina in 1973. They ar photographed outside the banquet hall of the reunion's venue. The men are not named.
A black 3-ring letter-sized binder containing about 50 pages of a War Diary of the 17th Field Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery from 1945. The first page is also a pair of emails in 2009 between Mark Zuehlke and Gordie Bannerman about the diaries.