Military

IHM.2021.0419
Item
1945

Contains the program for the V-E Day celebration at Dickson Park and the Armoury. The program has no dates and was printed before the date of V-E Day (May 8, 1945) was known.

V-E Day Program at St. Andrew's United Church

IHM.2021.0420
Item
May 7, 1945

Part of Church Religion Collection

Contains the order for the V-E Day church service.

St. Andrew's United Church (Indian Head)

Two soldiers of 17th Field Regiment posing with bombs

IHM.2020.0426
Item
1945

Part of Military Collection

Two soldiers posing with bombs at the Krupp proving grounds in Meppen, Germany at the end of WWII

17th Field Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery

Soldiers posing with jeep

IHM.2020.0428
Item
1945

Part of Military Collection

Six Canadian soldiers posing with a jeep in front of a building. Likely taken in Sneek, the Netherlands (see IHM.2020.0425).

17th Field Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery

Soldier of 17th Field Regiment posing with bombs

IHM.2020.0424
Item
1945

Part of Military Collection

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.

17th Field Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery

Soldier Len Martin posing under road sign in the Netherlands

IHM.2020.0425
Item
1945

Part of Military Collection

Photograph of one soldier with a jeep in the background posing under a road sign - likely at Sneek, the Netherlands. Inscription on back says "Holland 1945 Len Martin"

17th Field Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery

Seventy Years After 1914 - 1984

IHM.2020.0327
Item
1984

Part of Military Collection

A small blue paperback book that tells the stories of WWI with accounts from veterans taken seventy years after the war started. There appears to be no local history in the book.

Gardam, John (Colonel)

Professional group photo of Indian Head men in uniform (WWII)

IHM.2020.0429
Item
1951

Part of Military Collection

32 soldiers with Dr. A.J. M. Davies pose for a photo

17th Field Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Roll of Honour and Nominal Roll 1939 - 1945

IHM.2020.0324
Item
1939 - 1945

Part of Military Collection

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.

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.