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8th Hussars Museum Sixth Canadian Mounted Rifles With digital objects
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Sixth Canadian Mounted Rifles

  • CA HM 09.03.00
  • Fonds
  • 1914-1919

Fonds consists of Photocopies of photographs: Saint John and Sussex Detachments of 2nd Contingent. Hussar Officers of the 26th Battalion in 1914. Regiment training at Valcartier and staff at Shorncliffe. Also includes an original bound copy of Records of Service for 1910-1920. 5 photocopied pages of General Orders for Tank battalion and Machine gun corps, one photocopy of General Orders 1918 re organization of Canadian Tank Corps. Also includes a pamphlet of Canadian Cavalry Association By-laws. One page photocopied from Canada Gazette listing Appointments, Promotions and Retirements in 1918.
Photograph of Canadian Army setting sail October 1914. Included are photographs of officers and men and a photograph of regimental Billets in Belgium, 1915. One pamphlet on the Vimy Ridge Memorial. Cablegram and postcard from J.A. Bain which includes his pay book and service book from 1917. Typed copies of letters written by soldiers, together in a binder. Original Certificates, pay book, berthing card and 2 handwritten notebooks from Sgt. R J Stapleford which includes numerous photographs acquired by him. A original copy of cartoons from the "Bystanders Fragments from France" and a copy of the story of the Fourth Overseas Siege Battery from 1914-1919.

Sixth Canadian Mounted Rifles

General Orders

Series consists of photocopied pages of General Orders for Tank battalion and Machine gun corps. Also includes small 7 page pamphlet of Canadian Cavalry Association By-laws.

Sixth Canadian Mounted Rifles

Photographs

Series consists of 1 photograph of the commander at Vimy Ridge Lord Byng. Large photo of Canadian Army setting sail October 1914 and photographs of officers and men. Also included is a photograph of regimental Billets in Belgium, 1915. One pamphlet on the Vimy Ridge Memorial.

Sixth Canadian Mounted Rifles

Correspondence

Series consists of typed copies of letters written by soldiers in a binder.

Sixth Canadian Mounted Rifles