George Dorman was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, in July 1893. Dorman enlisted in June 1916 and served overseas with the 11th Canadian Mounted Rifles. The collection currently consist of one letter, reunion materials, miscellaneous documents, and more than twenty photographs.
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WWI
These collections contains any material relating to Canada from 1914 to 1918 from either the home front or the battlefront. External links in collection descriptions are either to online attestation papers at Library and Archives Canada or casualty and burial information at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
William Keith Dornan was born in Allenford, Ontario, in June 1897. Prior to the war he moved west and enlisted in Regina, Saskatchewan, in August 1915. Dornan served overseas until his death on March 16, 1917. The collection currently consists of six letters, clippings, a photograph, and a Christmas card.
Calrence Wilbert ("Bert") Drader was born in London, Ontario, in February 1889. Drader enlisted with the 66th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Edmonton, Alberta, in March 1916. He served in France and earned before being invalided back to Canada in March 1919. This collection currently consists of over ten letters and a single portrait.
Eugene Robert Drader was born in London, Ontario, in July 1891. Drader enlisted in Calgary, Alberta, with the 51st Battalion in June 1915. He served in France and was killed in action while with the 49th Battalion on September 16, 1916. This collection currently consists of over 20 letter and 4 photographs.
Joseph Earl Drader was born in London, Ontario, in March 1887. Drader enlisted in Edmonton, Alberta, with the 138th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force in March 1916. He served in France until his return to Canada at the end of the war. This collection currently consists of over ten letters and two photographs.
William Edward Drader was born in London, Ontario in April 1884. Drader enlisted with the 66th Canadians in Edmonton, Alberta, in December 1915. He served in England before returning to Canada in April 1919. This collection currently consists of six letters and one photograph.
Walter MacKay Langdale Draycott was born in Leicester, England, in February 1883. Draycott was alread a veteran of the South African War when he enlisted in December 1914 with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. He served in France and Belgium during the war and after the war settled in British Columbia, Canada. Draycott died in 1985 at the age of 102. The collection currently consists of an undated typed memoir by Draycott, as well as one photograph.
John Drysdale, the son of William and Flora Drysdale, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in May 1893. When he immigrated to Canada is uncertain. He enlisted at Sydney, Nova Scotia, in September 1915. Drysdale served in France and was killed October 7, 1918. The collection consists of annotated pages of Songs of a Sourdough, a book Drysdale carried with him in France.
This collection consists of letters of the Duff family from 1914 to 1918. It includes letters from Louis Duff, who enlisted in Moose Jaw in 1914, and his brother Cecil, who enlisted in Winnipeg in March 1916. As well there are letters between Louis and Cecil’s mother Rosa and her sister Lily (Aunt Lily in the correspondence from the brothers), correspondence from Harry Richey, the uncle of Louis and Cecil, and correspondence from Dr. Thomas Leask, related to the Duff family by marriage. The collection consists of thirty-four letters.
Lloyd Quintus Duffield was born in Norwood, Ontario, in April 1897 and enlisted in Peterborough, Ontario, in February 1916. Duffield was overseas with the 93rd Battalion but was discharged in June 1917 on medical grounds and returned to Canada. The collection currently consists of eight letters and one Christmas card.
Lancelot de Saumarez Duke, DFC, was born in Ceylon in October 1896. He was educated in England and Canada and moved to Victoria, British Columbia, where his father was a doctor. Duke initially enlisted with the 88th Battalion, Victoria Fusiliers, in May 1915. Duke then transferred to the Royal Flying Corps with whom he served until the end of the war. He flew with the 84th Squadron and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. The collection currently consists of letters from Duke, photographs, and his diary from 1918.
Marvin Neil Dunfield was born in Quyon, Québec, in September 1883. He enlisted in July 1915 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with the 90th Winnipeg Rifles. While serving overseas Dunfield was wounded in 1916 and again in 1917, and subsequently invalided back to Canada in 1918. The collection curently consists of five letters and one postcard.
This collection consists of more than 30 letters, as well as news items and editorials, originally published in the Dutton Advance newspaper in Ontario. These are letters home from soldiers overseas to family and community, spanning the years 1900 to 1944, which offer a unique glimpse of the ties between the soldiers and their homes. The dates indicated for the letters are those on which the letters were published in the newspaper, not the date of writing. Original headings and commnents at the time of publication have been retained.
