ScrpBk_11-verso

File Details

Depositor

Date Uploaded

Date Modified

Fixity Check

passed on July 28, 2024 at 05:35

Characterization

Height: 5550

Width: 5400

File Format: tiff (Tagged Image File Format)

File Size: 89935168

Filename: 24_2005-036.5.2_ScrpBk_11.tif

Last Modified: 2025-05-15T02:48:13.345Z

Original Checksum: 777d17988cba7f88d97aeac398e2b5cc

Mime Type: image/tiff

Page contains 1 photograph of Archie Wills and Wing Commander Guy Gibson. Caption reads: "Acting Mayor Archie Wills presents City of Victoria medallion to Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C. , D.S.O and [illegible] D.F.C. [illegible] at own luncheon in Empress Hotel, 1943, in honour of his historic feat in destroying the Eder and Mohne Dams. Gibson was known as the "Dam-buster."

Subject

• City council members
• World War (1939-1945)
• Gibson, Guy
• Empress Hotel (Victoria, B.C.)
• Air pilots, Military
• Wills, Archie H. (Archibald Henry), 1892-1988

Date created

• 1943

Geographic Coverage

• British Columbia--Victoria

Coordinates

• 48.4359, -123.35155

Permalink

• http://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/parent/a0300368-432e-41de-94a7-16a08b42c91e/file_sets/95fe0111-a4b0-4d0c-a3dd-70c55e220217