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Diggory Fonds
Diggory Fonds
CA ON00411 MG-0023 · Fonds · 1937-1951

The Diggory Fonds contain various personal papers, logbooks, newspaper clippings, photographs, telegrams, correspondence, and service records of Flying Officer Thomas J. Diggory during the Second World War. These Fonds also contain various artifacts, including pilot glasses, a British flag, an Ebel wristwatch, an ink well, cap badges, wings, stripes, dog tags, war medals, RAF buttons, an Air Force Doll, and an RAF Winter Navigator Helmet with radio and oxygen equipment.

 Thomas James Diggory
Mendes Fonds
CA ON00411 MG-0024 · Fonds · 1939-2017

The Mendes Fonds contain various printed and media material related to the research into the development and manufacture of Canadian Army Type Anti-Aircraft Radars from 1939-1946. The Fonds also contain correspondence, research notes, and articles relating to the Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (RCEME), the Auxiliary Territorial Service, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the War Diary of No. 1 Canadian Radio Location Unit, various Anti-Aircraft and Radar histories, and various issues of "Radar Reflections," the newsletter of the Canadian Army Radar Association.

 Brian Mendes
Nichols Fonds
CA ON00411 MG-0025 · Fonds · 1918

The Nichols Fonds includes correspondence from soldiers to the Home Front in 1918 as well as the Christmas 1918 edition of The O.PIP, the magazine of the 57th Battery, CFA, published quarterly, “wind, weather, and war permitting.”
Operational and Regimental Histories Fonds
CA ON00411 MG-0026 · Fonds · 1914-2016

The Operational and Regimental Histories Fonds contains various regimental, operational, battalion, naval, and artillery histories, primarily from the First and Second World Wars.
Personal Histories Fonds
CA ON00411 MG-0027 · Fonds · 1854-2005

The Personal Histories Fonds contain wartime diaries, documents, interviews, articles, postcards, photographs, and histories from various First and Second World War veterans. Included also is a paper by Sidney Allinson about Canada's First Victoria Cross recipient Lt. Alexander Dunn, who received the VC by being apart of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in 1854.
Medical Fonds
CA ON00411 MG-0028 · Fonds · 1944-2011

The Medical Fonds contains various medical war diaries and appendixes, articles on Spinal Cord Injuries and Battle Exhaustion, as well as histories of the German Medical Unit (Sanitatsbericht) from both the First and Second World Wars.
Government Correspondence Fonds
CA ON00411 MG-0030 · Fonds · 1914-1951

The Government Correspondence Fonds contains photocopied correspondence relating to the First World War, including " "precautions against raids in Western Canada" by Sir Robert Borden, J. G. Harvey, S. Brown, Edward Mayer, Karl Mayer, Major-General Gwatkin, John Hughes, A. Bowan Perry, A. R. Hamilton, A. Carnegie Ross, and Fred. Shibley, as well as correspondence by Maj. Gen E. L. M. Burns regarding POWs in Hong Kong during and after the Second World War.
Presbyterian Church Fonds
Presbyterian Church Fonds
CA ON00411 MG-0031 · Fonds · 1933-1943

The Presbyterian Church Fonds contains Volumes LVIII-LXVII (1933-1942) of "The Presbyterian Record: The Official Monthly Record of the Presbyterian Church in Canada" (copies of which belonged to John N. McLeod), and a few volumes of "The Earnest Worker: A Help to Bible Study in the Sabbath School and Home," "The Westminster Teacher," and "The Teacher," all published by the The Board of Sabbath People's Societies of the Presbyterian Church in Canada or the Presbyterian Committee of Publication in Richmond, Virginia.
Balloon Barrage Reunion Club Fonds
CA ON00411 MG-0032 · Fonds · 1939-2016

The Balloon Barrage Reunion Club Fonds contains various photographs, books, club histories, membership lists, and newsletters regarding The Balloon Barrage Reunion Club, which was founded in 1945 following the Second World War.
Insignia Fonds
Insignia Fonds
CA ON00411 MG-0033 · Fonds · 1848-1953

The Insignia Fonds contain various cap, shoulder, and collar badges, pins, tags, medals, and buttons from various Canadian battalions and divisions from the 1840s through until the 1950s. Insignia includes material from the North West Rebellion and the First and Second World Wars.
Map Fonds
Map Fonds
CA ON00411 MG-0036 · Fonds · c. 1910s-1990s

The Map Fonds contain over 3100 Topographical and Going Maps with Defence, Engineer, Flooding, and Geological Overprints, ranging from the 1910s to the 1990s. While the majority of the maps focus on Western Europe (France, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands) during the Second World War, the collection also includes maps of North America, Italy, and China. The majority of the maps were created under GSGS (Geographical Section, General Staff, also known as MI 4), which operated under the Director of Military Operations and Intelligence in the British War Office during the Second World War. The GSGS collected data on foreign survey networks and provided training, supplied maps, and prepared survey data for the Allied forces.

To download the finding aid for this collection, click on the first item (LMH Map Fonds Finding Aid August 2017)) To download map guides for each G.S.G.S. Map Series, see McMaster University's WWII Topographical map guides (https://library.mcmaster.ca/maps/ww2/ww2_topos_home), or visit http://lmharchive.ca/the-map-fonds/.