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World War I Scrapbook
CA BI MG 09.021-C-1 · Item · 1915-10-04 - 1918-11-12
Part of Dodd Family fonds

Item is a scrapbook kept by Frances Dodd during her time serving as a nurse in England during World War I (WWI). The scrapbook includes photographs with handwritten descriptions, drawings, poems and recipes.

Percy Willmot, scrapbook
CA BI MG 20.15-MG 20.15.4 · File · 1914-1919
Part of Percy Charles Willmot fonds

File contains a scrapbook of pictures, clippings, and letters concerning Lieut. Willmot's time at war. The scrapbook includes a recruitment address that was presented by J.W. Madden.

CA BI SB 15A · Item · 1956-1961

Item is a scrapbook of clippings assembled by Mrs. Mabel Beaton of North Sydney. Of particular relevance is the clipped article on page 89 of the scrapbook, titled "Echoes Of Pascendaele and Arras-Cambraio," by A.W. Doherty, which pertains to the fortieth anniversary of the Battle of Paschendaele.

Moxham's Castle
CA BI SB 133 · Item · 1914-1966

Item is a scrapbook composed of clippings pertaining to Moxham's Castle, Sydney. The included clippings were published between the dates June 11, 1914 and April 26, 1966 in the Chronicle Herald and the Cape Breton Post and provide information about the castle's conversion to a World War 1 military hospital and its destruction in 1966.

CA BI MG 20.15-MG 20.15.3 · File · 1908-1982
Part of Percy Charles Willmot fonds

File contains a scrapbook of pictures, clippings and letters compiled by Lieut. Willmot, detailing a trip from Sydney to England and return to Ottawa, 1908-09. The book also includes letters from Gladys Smith to Halifax officials concerning the donation of Percy Willmot's World War 1 materials to the Halifax Citadel Army Museum.

Military (General) 1915
CA BI SB 125A · Item · 1915-1983

Item is a scrapbook that features newspaper clippings, transcriptions, and photographs pertaining to members of the military from Cape Breton 1915-1983. Included in the scrapbook are the following: Complete service roll of the 24th battery of Canadian Overseas Field Artillery (January 29, 1915); "Lieut. Col. McLeod is Laid to Rest in Flanders; Sixth Battery Mourns for Chief" (December 31, 1915); A newspaper printed photograph of the 25th Battalion CEF (taken 1915, printed August 3, 1963); Transcription of war-related poetry, originally published in the Sydney Post (May 30, 1917); "Rising of N.S. Highland Brigade Recalled" (July 31, 1965); "85th Battalion Had Glorious Service Record in World War 1" (August 9, 1965); and "Memory of 85th Battalion Evoked at Province House" (August 10, 1970).

CA BI SB 151 · Item · 1985

Item is a scrapbook that was compiled for the 200th Anniversary of Sydney celebrations that includes reproductions of photographs, event tickets, and newspaper articles, as well as listings of Black men who served during wartime, and a history of the Black population in Sydney.

Military (General) 1915
CA BI SB 125B · Item · 1985-1998

Item is a scrapbook that features newspaper clippings related to various military activities between the years 1914 and 1986. Included in the scrapbook are the following clippings: "Magnificent Moxham's Castle in Sydney used as a convalescent hospital in WW1" (November 9, 1985); The Army Lowdown on Colour (n.d.); Copy of the Military Service Act, 1917 (n.d.); "A Comrade Remembered : "Letters to home from France in World War I" (November 7, 1990); "Lest We Forget: Archibald Andrew MacLellan, Pte. MacDougall, Donald Andrew MacLellan, Angus MacFarlane" (November 7, 1990); "Served their country well" (November 10, 1990); "Legion honours war hero: John Bernard Croak" (July 5, 1996); and "Nursing sister honours vets: Wartime bravery remembered at ceremony" (November 17, 1995).

CA BI MG 09.021-C · Subfonds · October 4, 1915 - August 12, 1937
Part of Dodd Family fonds

Sub-fonds consists of a World War I scrapbook kept by Frances Dodd during her time in England serving as a nurse, correspondence, and objects, including a silver service, pewter goblets, a silver urn, and a tea set.

Ridgway, Frances (Dodd)