Two copies of a homemade 118-page book written by Arnold Dales about his time in the Royal Canadian Air Force during WWII. Dales was a bomber navigator whose plane was shot down over Winterswijk, the Netherlands, on February 21, 1945. He had a broken leg and when that was mended by German medical staff, he was placed in a POW camp near the Danish border. A month later, the war had ended and he was able to return to Canada. He was a real estate agent in Indian Head, mayor of Indian Head and a key person in the creation of the Indian Head Museum.
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.
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.
A small (16 cm X 24 cm) red hardcover 170-page book containing the roll of honour, nominal roll and casualty chart for the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry for the years from 1939 to 1945. There is no Indian Head content except for the names of those enlisted in the PPCLI who came had lived in Indian Head.
A red and green hardcover 280-page book containing the history and achievements of the Royal Canadian Lord Strathcona's Horse Regiment during World War II. There is no local content unless any of the men enlisted are from Indian Head and area.
A 20 cm X 25 cm certificate from the town of Moosomin to returning veterans of WWII thanking them for their service. The name of the veteran and date on the certificate are both highly faded and illegible.
A newspaper article that has been clipped out. The article details the Canadian contribution to the Italian Campaign in WWII. Primarily focused on the invasion of Sicily
A newspaper article clipped out of the Leader Post that reports on 17th Field Regiment and their involvement in the Battle of Otterloo, north of Arnhem in the Netherlands (see IHM.2020.0345 - memoirs of Sgt. Gordie Bannerman).
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.
51 single-sided pages of email printouts from Stan Scislowski of Windsor, Ontario, to Doug Roberton of Indian Head, containing his memoirs of his WWII experience in Aldershot, England and then in action in Italy as a private in the Perth Regiment.
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.
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.
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.
