Personal – 48th Highlanders Museum Online

POW letter From Henry Ralph – WW1

Sgt Henry Ralph – Short typed letter of his history and a copy of his POW letter about POW treatment after his capture at the second battle at Ypres. details recorded in soldier file

Pte Earl Richard Wilmot Cubitt, City of Toronto, Roll of Honour

A large yellowed paper certificate with a printed border frame in gold and green with various images of flora like maple leaves, two gold wax stamps of the seal of the city of Toronto, and signatures in ink of three individuals near the bottom: the Mayor – Robert H. Saunders, the City Clerk – J.W. […]

Pte Norman Nelvin Cubitt, City of Toronto, Roll of Honour

A large yellowed paper certificate with a printed border frame in gold and green with various images of flora like maple leaves, two gold wax stamps of the seal of the city of Toronto, and signatures in ink of three individuals near the bottom: the Mayor – Frederick J Conboy, the City Clerk – J.W. […]

Sgt. Edward Hector McLay – Letter and Envelope To Friend in USA

Letter hand written by Sgt. McLay with pencil on green paper, likely written in 1915 from date on a Field Office Post stamp on the envelope. Envelope is small rectangle with brown stained edges and has hand written on front centre the receiver’s address reading from top to bottom: “2 Billingham St, (?) , Somerville” […]

In The Trenches – LCol. J.A. Currie Letter Drafts after 2nd Ypres gas attack

Photocopies of pages of a diary written by LCol. J.A. Currie, contents of which are a number of drafts of letters and list of soldiers with marking of their status, all from after the 2nd Battle of Ypres, kept inside a manila file folder. On the top of multiple letter drafts, he writes as a […]