A 68-page (single-sided) coil-bound book containing the WWII memoirs of Charles F. Watson a Canadian soldier who was originality from Indian Head and joined Indian Head's 76th Field Battery and fought in WWII.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
