The war diaries are official records kept by the Battalions during a one month period. They contain the daily orders, correspondence, newsletters, and an intelligence log detailing troop activities, locations, and weather conditions. The war diaries detail the activities and movement of the 1st Battalion from training in Canada and England to active duty on the Western Front and their return to Victoria in January 1946. This diary was kept while at Hilsea Barracks in Portsmith and the Ryde Area, Isle of Wight, England. It has entries about rehearsing ceremonial drills for an inspection and visit from the Princess Royal, participating in various training programs and exercises including one about passing information, a chess and checkers tournament, billet inspections, weapons and grenade throwing training, assault landing training, getting the second out of a series of three typhus inoculations, sponsoring a play called "Flare Play", getting new sniper rifles with a telescopic scope, various sports games, informing the troops what General Montgomery will expect when the "Second Front" opens and that "Monty" has laid down his policy that every man needs to follow, among other activities and information. Includes appendices covering orders, strength returns (daily & weekly), training syllabi, administrative memos, weekly progress reports, inspection by the Colonel-in-Chief and the Princess Royal, seating arrangements for the Princess Royal's luncheon map of training area, and a monthly training letter.

In Collection:

• Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary’s) Collection

Creator

• Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's)

Subject

• Canada. Canadian Army
• Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's)
• World War (1939-1945)
• War diaries

Language

• eng

Identifier

• Vol. 53

Date created

• January 1, 1944 to January 31, 1944

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only

Extent

• 157 pages

Geographic Coverage

• England--Ryde
• England--Portsmouth

Coordinates

• 50.82838, -1.06682
• 50.72999, -1.1621

Physical Repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary’s) Collection

Provenance

• Transferred to UVic Special Collections from BC Archives, March 2006.

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• journals (accounts)

Archival item identifier

• Series 11. 4.13

Fonds title

• Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's) fonds

Fonds identifier

• SC021

Is referenced by

• Finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/canadian-scottish-regiment-princess-marys-fonds

Date digitized

• February 13, 2019 to February 18, 2019

Technical note

• Scanned on Plustek Opticbook at 600 dpi TIFF. Jan 1944 image 150, Appendix 8, foldout was too large to scan on flatbed and was scanned on TTI/Betterlight (600 dpi, camera height 283, Bent5 tone).

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/xt92-2m05

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