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Program for Welcome Home Banquet and Social Evening
Part of Military Collection
The 10 cm X 15 cm 4-page program for a banquet and social evening held by the Indian Head Branch of the Legion for soldiers returning home from WWII.
Canadian Legion Indian Head Branch
Souvenir Programme "76th Field Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery, Welcome Home January 18th, 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
Newsclipping photo of 7 NCOs of the 76th Field Battery
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
Part of Military Collection
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.
17th Field Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery
Soldier of 17th Field Regiment posing with bombs
Part of Military Collection
Photograph of an unidentified soldier with a stack of bombs. If taken on the same day as IHM.2020.0423, this would also be at the Krupp proving grounds.
17th Field Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery
Part of Military Collection
Six Canadian soldiers posing with a jeep in front of a building. Likely taken in Sneek, the Netherlands (see IHM.2020.0425).
17th Field Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery
Part of Military Collection
Contains the program for the V-E Day celebration at Dickson Park and the Armoury. The program has no dates and was printed before the date of V-E Day (May 8, 1945) was known.
Two soldiers of 17th Field Regiment posing with bombs
Part of Military Collection
Two soldiers posing with bombs at the Krupp proving grounds in Meppen, Germany at the end of WWII
17th Field Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery
Letter to family of Richard Cox accompanying his WWII medals
Part of Military Collection
1-page letter accompanying medals for Corporal Richard Cox (R-213522) and expressing sympathy.
Certificate of Appreciation to J. Dorwart - Civil Security Corps
Part of Military Collection
1-page certificate re: J. Dorwart's service in "The Saskatchewan Veterans' Civil Security Corps, signed by Premier T.C. Douglas
Government of Saskatchewan
Soldier Len Martin posing under road sign in the Netherlands
Part of Military Collection
Photograph of one soldier with a jeep in the background posing under a road sign - likely at Sneek, the Netherlands. Inscription on back says "Holland 1945 Len Martin"
17th Field Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery
17th Field Regiment personnel posing at Krupp proving grounds
Part of Military Collection
Six soldiers of the 17th Field Regiment pose with a large Krupp artillery gun. Sgt. Peter Powless from Indian Head is identified in the photograph. The Krupp proving grounds were at Meppen, Germany, just 70 km southeast of Winschoten, the Netherlands, where the regiment was stationed after WWII.
17th Field Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery
Letter requesting cigarettes for soldiers
Part of Military Collection
A typed 2-page letter to the "Overseas Dept" in Montreal with a list of names and units of 28 soldiers, requesting that each be provided with 300 cigarettes.
Basingstoke Neurological and Plastic Surgery Hospital
Part of Military Collection
Various people (nurses, soldiers, etc.) at the Basingstoke Hospital in their uniforms.
Basingstoke Neurological & Plastic Surgery Hospital
Names of members of the 17th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery
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