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Publication entitled, Who Said War Is Hell!, by Yvonne and Ted Burgess. Excerpts from the diaries of Victor N. Swanston (1884-1974) and Ernest Swanston (1881-1968), soldiers with the 5th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, during the First World War.

Typewritten document entitled The Story of the 53rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, written by A.J. Hanchard. Includes nominal rolls of officers and non-commissioned officers at Sewell Camp in June 1915 and nominal roll of officers and non-commissioned officers when the Battalion went to England in 1916.

Nominal roll of Canadian Expeditionary Force, 53rd Battalion

Copy of document with information relating to 53rd Canadian Infantry Battalion.

Item is a photographic postcard sent to Elma and Lorena Best by Arthur F. Best. Postcard shows soldiers leaving Saskatoon by train with spectators, horses and buggies and automobiles in foreground.

A panoramic view of the men and women in the No. 8 Canadian Stationary Hospital, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Buildings in the background.

Items are photographic postcards showing views of servicemen in 60th Rifles walking down street in Moose Jaw prior to leaving to serve in World War I.

Head and shoulders portrait of Lieutenant Robert Grierson Combe in uniform. Combe (1880-1917) was a druggist and soldier from Melville, Saskatchewan who fought in World War I and was awarded the Victoria Cross.

Head and shoulders portrait of John Murdoch MacDonald in military uniform. It is possible that MacDonald served in the 152nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I.

152nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, pass in review before Brigadier General J. Hughes at Camp Hughes.