Large group of men - apparently at the Indian Head fairgrounds - most in white shirts and with white hats. Behind them is a row of RCMP mounted on horses.

16 men in WWI uniform in front of the Rosetown Town Office holding Ross rifles.

Recruits in uniform lined up on the sidewalk on Rosetown Main Street. Buildings behind recruits include "B C Restaurant", North Western Land Co., and Goose Lake Elevator. The street is quite muddy.

A group of soldiers in uniform, marching down Main Street in Biggar, Saskatchewan

Airplane at Anglia Sports Day. Harvey Hyslop's airplane.

Group photograph of the local Women's Brigade, World War I, at the S.C.H. Drill Hall in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan; names not supplied.

Fourteen veterans of WWI and a NWMP officer stand in front of the Wolseley War Memorial, likely in the 1920s. A couple of figures in the rear have moved and are out of focus.

William Allen pictured with other wounded soldiers and the hospital staff on Ward 5. [Christmas decorations] hang from the ceiling.

Bio/Historical Note: William (Bill) Allen was born 9 May 1892 in Bristol, England. He emigrated to Canada with his family in 1911, setting up a homestead near Smiley, Saskatchewan. Allen joined the Army in 1916 and was wounded at the Somme, which resulted in the amputation of most of his left arm. After he was discharged in 1917, he enrolled in the College of Agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan. In 1922 Allen received his BSA and went on to do graduate work at Harvard and Cornell, where he earned a PhD in Agricultural Economics in 1925. He married Gwendolen Woodward in 1926. He returned to the U of S and established the Department of Farm Management, of which he was head until his resignation in 1938. During his time at the University, Allen directed a provincial soil survey in 1935 and was in charge of the first major debt survey of rural Saskatchewan in 1936. During World War II, Allen’s duties included keeping Britain supplied with Canadian food and to negotiate trade agreements covering the sale of Canada’s agricultural products to Britain. Allen was a passenger on the S.S. Nerissa when it was sunk by a torpedo off the west coast of Scotland on 30 April 1941. Allen was listed as missing and presumed dead. Allen is memorialized with a plaque in Convocation Hall and an annual award in the College of Agriculture.
Bio/Historical Note: Beaufort War Hospital was a military hospital in Stapleton district, now Greater Fishponds, of Bristol, England, during the First World War. Before the war, it was an asylum called the Bristol Lunatic Asylum, and after the war it became the psychiatric hospital called Glenside Hospital. By the time the first wounded soldiers arrived in late 1914, the asylum had undergone a major conversion. Like many hospitals across the country, it had been requisitioned by the War Office, which had demanded some 15,000 beds to be supplied nationally for war wounded.

From the Sheaf, vol. 6, no. 4, April 1918. Graduation biographies under the heading, "Soldier Graduates."

William Allen pictured with other wounded soldiers and the hospital staff; outdoor scene.

Bio/Historical Note: William (Bill) Allen was born 9 May 1892 in Bristol, England. He emigrated to Canada with his family in 1911, setting up a homestead near Smiley, Saskatchewan. Allen joined the Army in 1916 and was wounded at the Somme, which resulted in the amputation of most of his left arm. After he was discharged in 1917, he enrolled in the College of Agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan. In 1922 Allen received his BSA and went on to do graduate work at Harvard and Cornell, where he earned a PhD in Agricultural Economics in 1925. He married Gwendolen Woodward in 1926. He returned to the U of S and established the Department of Farm Management, of which he was head until his resignation in 1938. During his time at the University, Allen directed a provincial soil survey in 1935 and was in charge of the first major debt survey of rural Saskatchewan in 1936. During World War II, Allen’s duties included keeping Britain supplied with Canadian food and to negotiate trade agreements covering the sale of Canada’s agricultural products to Britain. Allen was a passenger on the S.S. Nerissa when it was sunk by a torpedo off the west coast of Scotland on 30 April 1941. Allen was listed as missing and presumed dead. Allen is memorialized with a plaque in Convocation Hall and an annual award in the College of Agriculture.

Bio/Historical Note: Beaufort War Hospital was a military hospital in Stapleton district, now Greater Fishponds, of Bristol, England, during the First World War. Before the war, it was an asylum called the Bristol Lunatic Asylum, and after the war it became the psychiatric hospital called Glenside Hospital. By the time the first wounded soldiers arrived in late 1914, the asylum had undergone a major conversion. Like many hospitals across the country, it had been requisitioned by the War Office, which had demanded some 15,000 beds to be supplied nationally for war wounded.

A group of children and adults working in a garden area. A building can be seen in the background with a number of small buildings off to one side.

Two long tables of servicemen being served a meal with a group of thirteen ladies at the back of the room.

Five airplanes in the air.

Group photo of Great War (World War I) veterans standing in front of the Biggar Hotel

Unknown gentleman wearing the uniform of a staff sergeant from the Canadian Expeditionary Forces of 1914-19.