File contains a manuscript letter to the Warden and County Council of Hastings from Lieut. Col. Campbell, 25 October 1864, concerning a request for an appropriation in support of a planned rifle match in November, 1864. Also contains a manuscript resolution of the Hastings County Council providing financial support for the event.
File contains a newspaper article concerning the retirement of Lt. Col. W.N. Ponton as commanding officer of the 15th Battalion, Argyll Light Infantry, and his succession by Lt. Col. Halliwell.
File contains a newspaper article with a historical retrospective on the formation of the Argryll Light Infantry in response to a perceived threat from the United States during the Civil War.
File contains a typescript copy of a circular letter to the Bandmaster of the 15th Battalion from the Kingston Brigade Office, 29 January 1900 concerning band music orders. Also contains several manuscript cards of musical notes for the 'Campbells are Coming'.
File contains a typescript copy of a list of officers and servicemen belonging to the 15th Argyll Light Infantry of the Midland Battalion, who served in the 1885 Northwest Rebellion. Also contains a newspaper article relating to the events at Batoche during the Rebellion.
File contains a copy of typescript speech entitled "A Credit to Canada," given by Lt. Col. W.N. Ponton on the occasion of the opening of the Armouries in Belleville.
File contains a printed programme for Decoration Day, Belleville Armouries, 23 August 1925. Also present are newspaper articles ca. 1956 concerning the selection of executive officers of the local ANAF [Army, Navy & Airforce Veterans' Association] and ANAF banquets.
File contains a printed programme of an Assault-at-Arms or public demonstration of various military exercises for the benefit of the Officers' Mess of the 15th Battalion Argyll Light Infantry on 23 September 1890.
The file contains the original discharge paper for Private George Barlow from Captain Wellesly Richey's Independent Company of Militia. He served from 1 May 1839 to 30 April 1840. Dated 1 May 1840 and signed in Belleville.
File contains a typescript copy of an account of the establishment of the first Camp Borden Government Air Camp in the Township of Sidney in 1914, and the construction of the first airship built in Canada at the site in 1914.
The file contains a newspaper article titled "Mystery of aviation history solved", about a plane on display in city hall in 1914. The First World War bi-plane was built by H.R. Polly and brothers in Belleville.
File contains typescript lists of the company leaders, and inspection records for the Belleville High School Cadet Corps, 1914-1915. Also present is a manuscript letter to Lt. Col. Ponton from W. Jeffers Diamond, Secretary of the Belleville Board of Education, dated May 10, 1915 concerning inspection of the Cadet Corps.
File contains several newspaper clippings regarding the founding of the Belleville Patriotic Association on September 1, 1914, and Veterans' commemorative services at Belleville in 1936.
File contains a (fragile) newspaper clipping from 1925 written by Colonel Barrager, Principal of Queen Mary, discussing the cadet corps students attending public schools in Belleville.
File contains two notifications from the Veterans' Association: a 1901 invitation to the Annual Meeting of the Veterans' Association which included discussion on grants of land, and a 1909 invitation to the funeral of Mr. Thomas Gibson, who served with the 1st Belleville Rifles at Aultsville during the Fenian Raid of 1866.