MemorySask

Christmas greeting note (blank) of the 60/76th Field Battery

IHM.2022.0176
Item
1940

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"

60/76th Field Battery, 17th Field Regiment RCA

Biography/obituary of Charles Francis "Chuck" Watson

IHM.2022.0177
Item
December 31, 2020

Part of Military Collection

Printout of "Find-a-Grave" entry for Charles Francis "Chuck" Watson (Memorial ID 220429941) who is buried in the Indian Head Cemetery.

Lloyd, Marshall

Souvenir Programme "76th Field Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery, Welcome Home January 18th, 1946"

IHM.2022.0178
Item
January 18, 1946

Part of Military Collection

The 10 cm X 25 cm 4-page program for the welcome at the train station, the procession to the armoury and speeches there. It contains the record of the 76th Battery's actions during the war and a list of its officers.

Canadian Legion Indian Head Branch

Names of 191 names of members of the 76th Field Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery

IHM.2022.0179
Item
[ca. 1941]

Part of Military Collection

3 legal-size pages with 191 names and home towns of men serving in the 76th Field Battery. The document4 is undated so that it is not known if this was the list of the battery's initial membership.

Names of members of the 17th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery

IHM.2022.0180
Item
September 6, 1943

Part of Military Collection

10 legal-size pages with names, regimental numbers and ranks of men serving in the 17th Field Regiment, which included the combined 60/76th Field Battery, who embarked from Liverpool to Naples in September, 1943. It does not say which battery each soldier belonged to.

17th Field Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery

Order No. 98 for the 60/76th Field Battery

IHM.2022.0181
Item
November 1, 1940

Part of Military Collection

2 legal-size pages with orders (duties) for the various members of the 60/76th Field Battery while in training at Petawawa, Ontario.

60/76th Field Battery, 17th Field Regiment RCA

50th Anniversary V.E. Day - posed group

IHM.2022.0184
Item
May 6, 1995

Part of Military Collection

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.

John Dorwart in uniform

IHM.2022.0185
Item
[ca. 1914]

Part of Military Collection

Posed photo of John Dorwart in uniform holding a pistol

Welcome Home 76th

IHM.2022.0340
Item
January 17, 1946

Part of Military Collection

Issue of the Indian Head News dedicated to the occasion of the return of the Indian Head-based 76th Battery, part of the 17th Canadian Field Regiment. The issue has a photo of the original (1940) combined 60th & 76th Batteries with the names of all the members.

Indian Head - Wolseley News

Newspaper - list of WW2 men from Indian Head

IHM.2022.0346
Item
March 27, 1941

Part of Military Collection

March 27, 1941 issue of the Indian Head News containing the names of those for Indian Head who had enlisted.

Newsclipping photo of 7 NCOs of the 76th Field Battery

IHM.2022.0358
Item
January 17, 1946

Part of Military Collection

Newsclipping photo of 7 NCOs of the 76th Field Battery. Caption: Some Originals: These men were originals of the 76th Field Battery to return to Indian Head on Friday. In the groups are S/Sgt. W. J. Parr, Kipling; Sgt. Charles Watson, Indian Head; RSM George E. Green, Broadview; RSM G. Bannerman, Neville; Sgt. R. A. Townsend, Balcarres; Sgt. C. O. Payne, Neville; Sgt. P. J. Powless, Indian Head.

Regina Leader-Post

68th Battalion banquet - 15th anniversary

IHM.2022.0385
Item
April 24, 1931

Part of Military Collection

Posed group of men seated at dinner tables. See also item IHM.2021.0526. An arrow points to one man as Tom Rolfe. This was the 15th anniversary banquet of the 68th Battalion.