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  • My Life in the Army, Volume 07

    Alternative Title:
    Volume 7..My Life in the Army. Archie Wills. The March to Rhine. Personnel of B-Sub and instructions re equipment Start made Nov. 18, 1918
    Subject:
    Military training camps, Military education, Soldiers' writings, Soldiers--Conduct of life, Recruiting and enlistment, Soldiers--Health and hygiene, Canada. Canadian Army, Military camps, Soldiers, World War (1914-1918), War diaries, and Soldiers--Social conditions
    Creator:
    Wills, Archie H. (Archibald Henry), 1892-1988
    Contributor:
    Location:
    Language:
    eng
    Date Created:
    November 1918
    Rights Statement:
    In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
    Resource Type:
    Text
    Extent:
    1 volume (17 pages)
    Geographic Coverage:
    Belgium and Germany
    Coordinates:
    51.5, 10.5 and 50.75, 4.5
    Additional Physical Characteristics:
    Note that the volume of the diary has been crossed out from 8 to be 7. [minimal entries, not diary form]
    Physical Repository:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Collection:
    World War One Photographs and Journals and Victoria to Vimy First World War Collection
    Provider:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre:
    manuscripts (documents) and diaries
    Archival Item Identifier:
    Accession Number: 2005-036; Series: Autobiography; Sub-series: My Life in the Army; Archival Item Identifier: 3.14
    Fonds Title:
    Archie H. Wills fonds
    Fonds Identifier:
    AR394
    Is Referenced By:
    Archival Finding Aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/archie-h-wills-fonds
    Date Digitized:
    2007-05-15
    Technical Note:
    400 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by KD.

  • Archie Wills - photograph album

    Alternative Title:
    All in a lifetime - War 1914-18, the fun and the horror--pictures, Wills Photograph Album, First War Pictures of Dad's: All in a Lifetime, All in a Lifetime Photograph Album, and Archie Wills photograph album, appendage to autobiographical chapter on WWI
    Subject:
    Recruiting and enlistment, Prisoners of war, Intrenchments, Canada. Canadian Army, Transports, Military training camps, Military education, Trenches, Armed Forces--Barracks and quarters, Soldiers, Military camps, War, Armistices, World War (1914-1918), Soldiers' writings, and Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Field Artillery
    Creator:
    Greenwood, Ernest and Wills, Archie H. (Archibald Henry), 1892-1988
    Contributor:
    Location:
    Language:
    eng
    Date Created:
    1917 to 1918
    Rights Statement:
    In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
    Resource Type:
    Still Image
    Extent:
    1 photograph album (94 pages) ; 17 x 25 cm
    Geographic Coverage:
    Germany, British Columbia--Victoria, Belgium, France, England, Great Britain, British Columbia--Esquimalt, and Canada
    Coordinates:
    51.5, 10.5, 60.10867, -113.64258, 46, 2, 50.75, 4.5, 52.16045, -0.70312, 48.4359, -123.35155, and 54, -2
    Physical Repository:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Collection:
    Victoria to Vimy First World War Collection and World War One Photographs and Journals
    Provider:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre:
    photograph albums, photographs, news photographs, newspaper clippings, printed ephemera, black-and-white photographs, clippings (information artifacts), poems, autobiographies (literary genre), postcards, and scrapbooks
    Archival Item Identifier:
    AR394_03_09
    Fonds Title:
    Archie H. Wills fonds
    Fonds Identifier:
    AR394
    Is Referenced By:
    Archival Finding Aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/archie-h-wills-fonds
    Date Digitized:
    2007-08-16
    Technical Note:
    Original metadata listed the following as contributors: Christopher Rickinson, Alyssum Nielsen, and Chris Petter. Migration metadata by KD.

  • Charles McDowall Smyth's Account of the End of WWI and the Armistice: November 11, 1918

    Subject:
    Soldiers' writings, War, World War (1914-1918), Civil-military relations, Battlefields, Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Field Artillery, Soldiers, Military roads, Artillery, Personal narratives, Armistices, Military roads--Maintenance and repair, Military training camps, Soldiers--Conduct of life, and Soldiers--Billeting
    Creator:
    Smyth, Charles McDowall
    Language:
    eng
    Date Created:
    1918
    Rights Statement:
    In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
    Resource Type:
    Text
    Extent:
    22 pages
    Geographic Coverage:
    France--Aubin-Saint-Vaast, Belgium--Mons, France--Lens, France--Croisilles (Pas-de-Calais), Belgium, France--Valenciennes, France--Etaples, France--Bourlon Wood, and France--Cambrai
    Coordinates:
    50.43302, 2.82791, 50.19978, 2.87935, 50.39556, 1.97361, 50.45413, 3.95229, 50.52194, 1.63319, 50.75, 4.5, 50.17596, 3.23472, 50.35909, 3.52506, and 50.16667, 3.11667
    Additional Physical Characteristics:
    Typescript.
    Physical Repository:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Collection:
    World War One Photographs and Journals
    Provider:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre:
    diaries and autobiographies (literary genre)
    Archival Item Identifier:
    Accession Number: 2006-031
    Fonds Title:
    Charles McDowall Smyth fonds
    Fonds Identifier:
    SC403
    Is Referenced By:
    Special Collections Finding Aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/charles-mcdowall-smyth-fonds
    Date Digitized:
    2008-01-07
    Technical Note:
    Migration metadata by KD.
    Keyword in Context:
    Transcript available
    Charles McDowall Smyth’s Account of the End of WWI and the Armistice: November 11, 1918 12-11-18 (November 12, 1918) 32 Rue d’Havré Mons Hainaut Belgique The following is a general account of my doings from the time of my return to France in Se...