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HCHS Textual Records collection: Files 2000 to 2499 File
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15th Battalion Argyll Light Infantry : visit to Albany, 1899

File contains two newspaper articles concerning a ceremonial drill of the Governor General's Foot Guards of the 15th Battalion, Argyll Light Infantry at the capital grounds in Albany, New York on September 5, 1899. Also present is sample of the notepaper with official crest of the Battalion. The items are derived from the W.N. Ponton Military Papers.

1885 Northwest Rebellion Campaign: list of “A” & “H” Company Belleville Veterans

File contains a photocopied typescript letter from Chas. S. Clapp to Lt. Col. William Nisbet Ponton dated October 29, 1914 concerning the A. and H Companies of the Midland Battalion at Batoche during the Northwest Rebellion of 1885. Also present is a photocopied typescript list of veterans from the two companies who served during the Rebellion.

1885 Rebellion : Letters from Cr. Sgt. Wrighton 1885

.File contains several newspaper clippings in which eyewitness accounts of the 1885 Northwest Rebellion by Colour Sergeant William Thomas Wrighton, Belleville, of the Midland Battalion, are reproduced. Also present is a photocopied offprint of an article from Saskatchewan History, Vol X111, no.3 (Autumn, 1960), entitled “The Campaign of 1885: A Contemporary Account,” by G.F.G. Stanley. The article is based in part upon the letters of William Thomas Wrighton. Also contains a photocopied typescript memoir by William Hubbard ca. 1914 recounting his participation in the Riel Rebellion in 1870

34th Battery Officers, 1924-1938

File contains a photocopied printed list of officers of the 34th Battery from ca. 1924-1938, headquartered at Belleville. Also includes a newspaper article dated 4 June 1959, concerning an upcoming reunion of the members of the 34th Battery. Also present is a printed Officer's Mess card of Major B.C. Donnan, for the year ended October 15, 1935.

Air Base, Trenton and Middleton Park

File contains a photocopied printed article concerning the establishment of the Royal Canadian Air Force training station in the Township of Sidney, in what is now Quinte West, in 1931. Also contains a 1967 newspaper clipping concerning the Middleton Park community housing area which contained permanent quarters for married service personnel and their families.

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