War Diary of 1st Battalion Canadian Scottish Regiment, Vol. 29, January 1, 1942 to January 31, 1942

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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 Denne Park, England and has notes regarding officer's dress, lectures on tradition, history of the regiment and regimental handbook. It has entries about the difficulties getting water to the camp, being issues a syllabus of courses that can be taken by correspondence from many of the leading Universities of Canada, training, getting reprimanded about the amount of unnecessary coughing going on during church services, lowering the speed limit and grounding motorcycles during icy conditions, bringing in a standardized kit layout for the huts, troops qualifying at the ranges, discovering that their camp is very vulnerable to air attacks, the history of the adjacent St. Leonard's Forest which was famous in the early 1600's when it was believed that a serpent roamed the woods, and testing a new vitamized chocolate as a type of iron ration, among other activities and information. Includes appendices covering orders, strength returns (daily & weekly), training syllabi, and administrative memos.

In Collection:
Creator Subject Language Identifier
  • Vol. 29
Date created Resource type Rights statement Extent
  • 31 pages
Geographic coverage Coordinates
  • 51.056787, -0.331331
Physical repository Collection
  • Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary’s) Collection
Provenance
  • Transferred to UVic Special Collections from BC Archives, March 2006.
Provider Genre Archival item identifier
  • Series 11. 4.1
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • April 9, 2019 to April 17, 2019
Technical note
  • Scanned on Plustek Opticbook at 600 dpi TIFF.
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