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Bagshaw, Frederick Bertram

  • R-6
  • Documento
  • 1913-1947

Records relating to World War I and World War II including Canadian war orders and regulations, Wartime Prices and Trade Board, personal diary and narrative of events of various Canadian army units; and photographs of units, officers, and men of the 5th Canadian Infantry Battalion (Western Cavalry) and others unidentified, taken during the First World War (file 10, a-e); scenes of destruction and Canadian soldiers in France during the First World War (Box 2); and miscellaneous photographs of soldiers, some possibly from Saskatchewan who went to France during the First World War (Box 11).

Box 12 contains a letter dated 16 April 1913 to F.B. Bagshaw from Wilson Pugsley McDonald, who inquires whether or not he should mortgage his poetry in order to relieve his desperate financial situation.

Oh, oh, oh, it's a lovely war! One nurse's story

Item component is a description Gladys Matheson Crim papers that are located at the Saskatchewan Archives and the importance of their contents for an understanding of the life of a young nurse working in England and France during World War One. Component appears on pages 6 to 10.

Article includes a reproduction of Gladys Matheson Crim's diary entry for November 11, 1918.

Article is supplemented by photographs that depict: Gladys Crim, some colleagues and convalescent soldiers - Crim is shown holding bagpipes; unidentified nurse working on the ankle area of an unidentified solder; rows of soldiers laid out on stretchers with one nurse; from the funeral service for nurse Margaret Lowe, soldiers standing at attention with a small group holding a flag-draped coffin; an unidentified soldier (missing one leg) with a crutch under one arm and holding a fish in the opposite hand; and, "Queen Mary Tea Room at Woodcote Park Convalescent Hospital" with armed forces personnel at tables and at left someone at the piano.

Article is supplemented by drawings showing: the surrender of three German soldiers (captioned "Merci Komrad"); a single grave marker ("To an unknown British soldier killed in action at Ypres 29 April 1915") that was drawn by Corporal R. Gordon-Cumming; a man and woman (from behind) accompanied by two poems; German soldier as a "proposed design for the stained glass window of the future" accompanied by a poem by Corporal R. Gordon Cumming; a figure holding on to a post through which a shell has passed through (caption "The Last Post"); and a soldier smoking a cigarette whose smoke transforms into the image of a nurse (accompanied by note from C. R. Alexander).

Article includes coloured drawings (paintings?) showing: trees stripped of foliage and bomb bursts in air (captioned "Land marks of Ypres"); and a damaged building that has a path leading from foreground to background with an orange / red sky.

Williams, Myrna

Honour, platitudes, and the old lie

Item component are notes by editor of Saskatchewan History, Myrna Williams on the imporance of poetry, journals, and diaries are for an understanding experinces of the Great War, a summary of the contents of the issue, including acknowledgements and brief summaries of articles. Component is supplemented by a photograph oshowing a form letters intedned for soldiers to write home, and a letter sen from Soldiers' Christian Association Camp Camp (Bramshott Camp). Component appears on pages 4 and 5.

Williams, Myrna

Terrible in the telling : Excerpts from J. S. Wood's World War I log

Item component is a description of the experiences of James Stuart Wood as expressed in his daily journal during World War One, in particular in Egypt during 1915, France and Belgium in 1916 and 1917. Included are the battles of the Somme, Ancrea, Vimy Ridge, and his travel back to Canada. Also included a brief description of controversy that rose as chief of the Saskatoon Public Library concerning the acquisition of German books. Component appears on pages 40 to 47.

Article supplemented by a photograph of James Stuart Wood as a young man in England; an excerpt from the diary showing a handdrawn map of the Suez Canel defence areas; and a handdrawn map of a trench configuation where he was stationed in France.

Williams, Myrna

Soldiers leaving Saskatoon

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.

Best, Arthur Frank, 1886-[after 1968]

Great War news briefs from Saskatchewan Herald

Item component is a transcription of articles and selective reproduction of advertisments that appeared in the Saskatchewan Herald newspaper from 1915. Information reflects both activities on the home front, as well as some news from overseas. Component appears on pages 36 to 38.

Williams, Myrna

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