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Photographs and papers from Bev Boomhour
Photographs, postcards, and school reports from members of the Covert and Cole families of Deseronto, Ontario. Some photographs are from the First World War training camps in Deseronto.
Photographic slides relating to First World War pilot training in Deseronto and to rum running
Photographic slides relating to rum running (80) and to First World War pilot training in Deseronto (40), with seven slides of an early aircraft in Belleville.
Hunt, C. W. (Claude William)
Photograph of Royal Air Force Headquarters staff, Toronto
Panoramic group photograph. Names supplied:
Front row
Corporal C. V. Wakely
Corporal A. Heatley
Corporal H. Paterson
Sergeant R. J. Stevenson
Acting Sergeant G. F. Low
2nd Lieutenant W. J. Scott
2nd Lieutenant R. Hamilton
Lieutenant F. D. Williams
Lieutenant S. J. Lee
Captain W. H. Marnell
Captain M. A. Seymour
Major J. Rubie
Brigadier General C. G. Hoare, C.M.G.
Lieutenant Colonel F. R. G. Hoare
Lieutenant Colonel A. K. Tylee
Major J. Inwood
Lieutenant G. J. Blackmore
Captain J. W. Langmuir
Captain B. F. Bainsmith
Captain F. H. Hawksford
Sergeant Major W. Manners
Flight Sergeant C. A. Hepworth
Flight Sergeant F. V. Tree
Flight Sergeant H. H. Atkinson
Sergeant F. A. Cassore
Second row
Mrs Russell
Miss Carmen
Miss Hennessy
Mrs Cody
Miss Newbury
Mrs Ratcliffe
Miss Russell
Miss White
Miss West
Miss Padbury
Miss Wilson
Miss Major
Miss Bullock
Miss Pugh
Miss Martin
Miss McEachern
Miss O'Biren
Miss O'Loane
Miss Harper
Miss Humphrey
Miss O'Brien
Miss McInnes
Miss Hogan
Miss Melville
Miss Steele
Miss Dwyer
Mrs Weiss
Corporal H. G. Wade
Back row
2nd Airman A. Dowell
2nd Airman C. T. Boughner
2nd Airman W. B. Cole
2nd Airman T. A. H. Morrow
2nd Airman L. Landymore
2nd Airman F. Aldridge
2nd Private G. T. Beatty
3rd Airman S. T. Walton
2nd Airman F. C. Baker
2nd Airman R. J. Derry
1st Airman R. Turner
1st Airman J. D. Brown
2nd Airman R. B. Abell
2nd Airman N. Stonehouse
2nd Airman M. D. Fauman
3rd Airman F. O. Basing
2nd Private G. Worrall
3rd Airman Stebbing
2nd Private H. J. McKenzie
2nd Airman J. Kingston
2nd Airman P. W. G. Willey
2nd Private A. Beecher
2nd Private R. J. Luton
2nd Airman M. H. McLean
2nd Private W. J. Lakeman
3rd Airman J. A. McEachon
1st Airman J. Preston
Corporal C. W. McPherson
Latta, George W.
Photograph of RCAF Clinton Sergeant's mess
Photograph of members of the Sergeant's mess at the Royal Canadian Air Force base in Clinton, Ontario.
Royal Canadian Air Force
Photocopy of photograph of No. 14 Platoon D Company No. 20 CIBTC-Ca, Brantford, Ontario
Photocopy of a group of men in Canadian Army basic training, including a Deseronto-based relative of the donor.
Photocopy of Certificate of Service for Edward Joseph Heffernan
Photocopy of First World War discharge certificate for Edward Joseph Heffernan (1898-1970) of Peterborough, Ontario.
Photographs from World War Two, Philip Etter's identification cards, literature on the navy and military, correspondence with the Canadian Merchant Navy Veterans Association, newspaper articles, newspapers from World War Two, House of Commons releases, the journal "The Red Duster".
Etter, Philip Herbert
Panoramic photograph of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment
Photograph taken at Camp Barriefield, Ontario.
Marrison Studio
Newspaper clipping of 'The Recruit' poem by Helen Fairbairn
Poem, published in February 1916 (an article on the reverse of the poem mentions a candidates' meeting of the 1916 Peel by-election which took place on 23 February).
Fairbairn, Helen
Military photographs from World War I
Two photographs:
Military items of Clifford Adair LeBlanc
Items relating to Clifford Adair LeBlanc, of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment.
Collection of books, most formerly owned by William Nisbet Ponton, some from the collection of Grace B. Waters.
Ponton, William Nisbet
The fonds consists of 48 letters written during World War I, transcriptions of the letters, 1 CD and a book titled 'Just a Few Lines: A Memoir of William Thomas Miles from the Great War, 1916-1919'. The book is written by Thomas N. Miles and William J. Miles, Will Miles' sons and is based on this collection of letters. 47 of the letters are from Will Miles to his mother and 1 is from his cousin Maud to Will Miles. The letters are written between Sept. 30, 1916 and Feb. 18, 1919. Most of the letters are sent from France with a few of them sent from England, Barriefield Camp and Bramshott Camp. The letters discuss Will Miles' day to day life being a soldier during WWI, Flanders mud, lice, hunger and poison gas, meeting girls, complaining of the the food he eats, people being injured or sick, himself being injured, the weather, thanks for receiving parcels, running into old friends and looking forward to coming home in 1918.
Miles, William Thomas
A compilation of short character sketches about soldiers of the First and Second World Wars from Hastings County who died but are not memorialized at the cenotaph, monument, or memorial park where they were born.
Brearley, Donald T.
Materials transferred from Deseronto Town Hall
Town of Deseronto
Materials relating to Colonel William Nisbet Ponton
Photographs, correspondence and printed items formerly owned by William Nisbet Ponton.
Ponton, William Nisbet
Magazine article on Stewart Millen Bonter
Article about the discovery of the Halifax bomber aircraft 'Moonlight Mermaid' which crashed in Germany in March 1945, killing three of its crew, including Stewart Millen Bonter of Marmora, Ontario.
Letter from Frederick Manlis Miller and research materials
Letter from Frederick Manlis Miller to Thomas Henry Coppin, agent, informing him that Miller had enlisted for active service. Several pages and printouts of 2013 research by Richard Hughes on Miller's family history. Also a copy of a newspaper article on a family history story relating to Hughes' grandmother in England and Belleville mayor George Zegouras, with a copy of a photograph of Zegouras and Hughes.
Hughes, Richard M.
J. Allan Smith Royal Flying Corps Training Camps Collection
Collection comprises photographs of the two First World War Royal Flying Corps training camps at Deseronto, Ontario and notes for an unpublished book, 'Wings Over Deseronto', on the history of the camps. Camp Mohawk and Camp Rathbun were in operation between May 1917 and November 1918, training men to be pilots for the Western Front. The photographs in this collection are originals and reproductions depicting the aircraft, staff and cadets of the Royal Flying Corps, principally in the Deseronto camps, but also at Camps Borden and Leaside (Ontario) and Camp Taliaferro, in Fort Worth, Texas.
Smith, James Allan
Information for Canadian servicemen in the Second World War
Scanned copies of information leaflets and booklets given to Canadian servicemen in the Second World War.
Canada. Department of National Defence
