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Belgian Officer
Watercolour in sketchbook kept by Charles Bovill while a prisoner of war
Photograph of Bert Knowles and Wife in Winnipeg
Photograph in sketchbook kept by Charles Bovill while a prisoner of war
Christmas Card
Christmas card likely sent to Bovill with cigarettes as a part of a charity effort
Photograph of Russian Soldier, M. Tenenbaum
With caption "spoke 4 languages left gutersloh as interpreter"
Photograph of Kitchen Staff at Gutersloh
Photograph in sketchbook kept by Charles Bovill while a prisoner of war
King's Army Commission for Alfred King Tripe as Second Lieutenant, Territorial Force
With original signature of King George V
Billfold of Alfred King Tripe with clipping of his Mother's hair
Billfold, which Alfred King Tripe carried with him to France and an envelope with the hair of Marian Edwards Tripe
Commemorative Scroll for Alfred King Tripe
Sent to Alfred King Tripe's father Walter Delamain Tripe
Memorial Plaque, aka the 'Dead Man's Penny' of Alfred King Tripe
Sent to Alfred King Tripe's father Walter Delamain Tripe
Copy of letters from Major Morgan (commanding 13th Company Tank Corps), Captain Roberts (commanding section of the 13th Company Tank Corps, and Colonel Burnett (commanding the Tank Corps) on the subject of the death of Alfred King Tripe
Sent to Water Delamain Tripe after the death of Alfred King Tripe
Photograph Album of Canadian Army Medical Corp Training
Photograph album pages and photographs excerpted from album kept by a soldier training the Canadian Army Medical Corp at Base Borden, Ontario
Bound book of original gelatin photographs from the 3rd Battle of Artois (September-November 1915)
Bound book dedicated to Mrs. Crawford Brown "bien amical souvenir de quelques mois de campagne. D. Ferreyrolle, ambulance 10/20, secteur 102, 10 janvier [1916]." Each photograph has a pencil description.
Autograph Book of Nurse Christine Wood Homes at Colliton House Hospital in Dorchester
Contains entries, sketches and photographs of wounded soldiers at Colliton House Hospital. Many entries are signed with names and regiments.
WWI Photograph Album of a Belgian Soldier
Photograph album of a Belgian soldier (possibly Auguste Pierre Van Loo) which includes photographs of destruction, no man's land, soldiers in ruins and posing with airplanes and tanks
Autograph and Scrapbook of the Great War
Includes autographs, written excerpts, clippings and other ephemera pasted into thematic pages, which includes VAD nurses and the Red Cross, French soldiers and soldiers serving in Africa
Album of postcards and other ephemera sent home from France and Belgium by Lance Corporal Gordon Stokes
Includes mass-market photographs of destruction, as well as photographs, clippings, and ephemera. Composed of material sent home before Stokes was invalided back to England in 1915. Loose photographs off the destroyed battlefields date to the…
Typed account of the Second Battle of Ypres written by Robert Gilmour Edwards Leckie and sent home to his family
Seventeen page account beginning on 14 April 1915 and ending on 7 May 1915, sent to his family in Canada on 13 May 1915 with instructions that it was for "family consumption." Includes a casualty list for "Officers of 16th Battalion."
R.G.E Leckie in Belgium
Photograph of R.G.E Leckie on the battlefields in Belgium in uniform of the Canadian 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish)
Photograph of King George V's Inspection of the Canadian 16th Battalion with handwritten key
Sent from R.G.E Leckie to sister Edith Leckie who noted receiving the photographs in her diary
Photograph of R.G.E Leckie leading the Canadian 16th Battalion in cheering the automobile of King George V and Queen Mary with handwritten key
Sent from R.G.E Leckie to sister Edith Leckie who noted receiving the photographs in her diary
List of Canadian soldiers killed during 1915 and 1916
Likely kept by R.G.E Leckie and kept on the back of an envelope
Diary of Edith Leckie
Diary accounting the beginning of the war, Leckie's journey to England and beginning her war job in London.
Letter from Louise Keemlé to her brother, Ned Keemlé
Letter from Louise Keemlé to her brother Ned Keemlé serving in France