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

Portrait of William Yeates Hunter in uniform with hat and a riding crop.

Bio/Historical Note: Major (Manitoba Regiment) William Yeates Hunter (b.1868) of Saskatoon was KIA 19180928 and is buried at Reninghelst New military cemetery southwest of Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. He was the son of Dr. William Frith Hunter and came from Margate, Kent, England, to homestead on NW21-49-4-W3, west of Shellbrook. Hunter served more than 13 years in the British Army and was with the 8th Kings (Liverpool) Regiment in the South African War. Hunter completed a BA at the University of Saskatchewan in 1915 and was a professor of English when he enlisted at Winnipeg, Manitoba, early the next year, leaving a wife Ethel Helen later of Montréal, Québec. Hunter was serving as an area commandant of part of liberated Belgium when he was killed (most likely by enemy bombs).

Tom Bateson standing in a field next to a cannon

Portrait of Sergeant Hugh Buchanan in military uniform

This fonds reflects the historical research and writing conducted by Richard Dowson. Dowson has completed extensive research on Moose Jaw during WWII. It includes writings on George William ‘Bill’ Ward, a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, and the history of Moose Jaw residents in relation to the sinking of the Line Athenia. It also includes the history of the Moose Jaw Dam-buster Airmen, Sergeant-Pilot Kenneth Brown and Pilot Officer Robert Alexander Urquhart.

Officers of the 120th C.A.(B.)T.C. (Canadian Army (Basic) Training Centre) which operated out of the Regina Exhibition Grounds during World War II

Group photograph of the Officers of the Regina Rifle Regiment-Canadian Active Service Force (C.A.S.F.) (8th Brigade) in the summer of 1940.

Page 5 of the history of No. 11 Service Flying Training School in Yorkton.

Page 4 of the history of No. 11 Service Flying Training School in Yorkton.

Page 3 of the history of No. 11 Service Flying Training School in Yorkton.

Page 2 of the history of No. 11 Service Flying Training School in Yorkton.

Page 1 of the history of No. 11 Service Flying Training School in Yorkton.