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.
Photo of 18 legion members in suits and displaying medals. Appears to be a Saskatchewan convention. Indian Head's Doug Welch is in the middle row - 5th from left.
Consists of Ration Book 2 (Cliffe Horsman and Grace Horsman); Ration Books 3 and 4 (Grace Horsman). Many ration stickers have been used in Ration Books 2 and 4 but most remain in Ration Book 3 .
Photocopy of p.325 with profiles of 4 Stilwell brothers (?) from Indian Head who all served in WWII: Gerald W.C. "Jerry" Stilwell (1916-1989); Harry Raymond "Harpo" Stilwell (1920-1998); Reginald Edgar Stilwell (1926-?); Sidney Leonard "Sid" Stilwell (1922-?)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Front-page news article in the Indian Head News (Thurs. Jan. 30, 1941) entitled "Welcome Home!! Indian Head provides rousing reception as Flight Lieut. Prior detrains for well-earned furlough on Monday evening". F-L Garfield Prior. He was killed in 1942