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Norman B. "Nipper" Scott fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1917-1981

Fonds consists of various materials relating to Captain Norman B. "Nipper" Scott's service with the Royal Flying Corps/ Royal Air Force, Squadron 11 in England and France during the First World War. Includes:
53-page typescript entitled "Diary of a War Bird"
Pilot's log book, August 14, 1917 to November 25, 1918, including miscellaneous correspondence and certificates
Diary, January 1, 1918 to December 31, 1918
Diary, January 1, 1919 to May 18, 1919
3 black and white photographs, circa late 1917 to early 1918
12 p. typescript entitled "A History of the Scott Family"
7 p. of correspondence, 1973, and attached list of officers of 11 Squadron, Royal Air Force, 1918
Regimental tie
1 RFC tie tack
1 RFC badge
3 medals
1 pin
2 VHS cassette tapes, 1981, containing interviews with N.B. Scott
1 pen and ink drawing, 1973, by N.B. Scott, showing the Ketchum-Ferguson farm house "Maplehurst", south of the Union Road (constructed 1859)
1 greeting card featuring the above drawing

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H.W. Cooper fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1916-1919

Fonds consists of pen and ink drawings and letters depicting scenes of daily life involving the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France, Belgium and Germany during and immediately after the First World War. Includes descriptions and images of Albert, France; Neuville St. Vaast, France; Notre Dame de Lorette, France; Lievin, France; Ypres, Belgium; Camblain L'Abbe, France; Mont St. Eloi, France; Andenne, Belgium; Bonn, Germany; and Cologne, Germany; as well as descriptions of Cooper's work with the Canadian War Narrative Section in Bramshoot, Hants, England and Ottawa, Ontario in 1919.
The fonds is organized into the following series:

  1. Drawings
  2. Letters

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William Stafford and Helena Robertson fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1916-1917

Fonds consists of correspondence between Private William Stafford and Helena Robertson while William was serving overseas in England, France and Belgium during the First World War. During the time of their correspondence, Helena was living in Lambeth, Ontario.
During the dark days of the First World War, France found itself host to many Belgian refugee women and children while war ravaged their homeland. Anxious to help their men-folk in their battle for freedom, the women, among other things, made beautiful hand embroidered cards to sell to the Allied soldiers. These have since become some of the most desirable nostalgia available to the postcard world. Some of these cards have found their way to the Elgin County Museum and with them come a love story. The cards had been sent from the battlefields of France and Belgium by Gunner Will Stafford to Helena Robertson of Lambeth. They are beautiful cards with touching messages – ‘A kiss from France’ or ‘With loving wishes’ and ‘I don’t forget you’. Both Will and Helena sent other cards of a more common type. Some were in a numbered series, each carrying a verse from a well known poem or hymn. Thus the receiver would know if all the mail was reaching its destination. In this case, as indicated by the messages, they also acted as tracers for the letters which interspersed the cards. It was later learned that Will came home in good health, married Helena and together they had a daughter, Elsie and a son, Arnold. J. Kirby

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