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 Otter Point, Work Point Camp, and Debert Military Camp. It has entries about weather conditions, training, the opening of a Regimental Depot at Work Point Camp, the pipe band having moving pictures taken of them in front of the Victoria Parliament Buildings, Italy declaring war against Great Britain and France, issues with slow recruitment then it picking up a bit, opening of new recruitment office at 1234 Government Street, having the pipe band parade and building a camouflaged trench in the hope of speeding up recruitment, "Times and Colonist" reporters and photographers providing columns in the hopes of building recruitment, and requesting and getting permission for a brass band as the pipe band has lost its glamour as far as the civilian population is concerned, among other activities and information.

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. 10

Date created

• June 1, 1940 to June 30, 1940

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only

Extent

• 14 pages

Geographic Coverage

• British Columbia--Victoria
• British Columbia--Work Point Camp
• British Columbia--Capital Regional District--Otter Point

Coordinates

• 48.4359, -123.35155
• 48.35753, -123.82223
• 48.425070, -123.398087

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. 3.18

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

• April 3, 2019 to April 9, 2019

Technical note

• Scanned on Plustek Opticbook at 600 dpi TIFF.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/a7p2-4v43

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