War Diary of 1st Battalion Canadian Scottish Regiment, Vol. 34, June 1, 1942 to June 30, 1942

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 Denton and Seaford, England. It has entries about completing the exercise "Tiger", an incident causing the local public house called "The Flying Fish" to be out of bounds until 1800 hrs each day, having a dental parade where appointments for men needing dental treatment were made and charting all the troop's teeth will happen, spending a good deal of time training for manning anti-raid positions so it becomes second-nature, all troops taking a "smartening up" course to enforce better and more rigid discipline, watching two German war pictures "The War in the West" and "Pact with Russia" that contain the "real thing" and had the desired effect on the spectators, viewing a security film called "Next of Kin", a lecture on espionage and propaganda for the officers, and participating in "Battle Inoculation" training which is the nearest thing to being under shell fire that the army can give, among other activities and information. Includes appendices covering orders, strength returns (daily & weekly), training syllabi, administrative memos, operation instructions, sports day programme, defence platoon instructions, and movement orders.

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. 34

Date created

• June 1, 1942 to June 30, 1942

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only

Extent

• 74 pages

Geographic coverage

• England--Denton (East Sussex)
• England--Seaford

Coordinates

• 50.80187, 0.06025
• 50.77141, 0.10268

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. 4.2

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 9, 2019 to April 17, 2019

Technical note

• Scanned on Plustek Opticbook at 600 dpi TIFF.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/kc3p-ck41

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