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A wartime log : a remembrance from home through the Canadian Y.M.C.A.

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Part Of: Bill Waterworth fonds

Scope & Content: Bill Waterworth enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force at the age of 18. On September 19, 1942, Waterworth was shot down over the French coast just short of completing his 33rd mission. Waterworth avoided capture by German patrols for two weeks before being captured and taken prisoner by the G…

Date Range: [ca.1940]-1999

Reference Code: M215 / LC 1 / accn 8066

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Machine-readable data file; Photograph; Scrapbook; Textual record

1 Electronic Resource

Part Of: Bill Waterworth fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M 215; S 54; V 176

Sous-Fonds: M 215; S 54; V 176

Accession Number: 8066 - loan for copy

Reference Code: M215 / LC 1 / accn 8066

GMD: Machine-readable data file; Photograph; Scrapbook; Textual record

Date Range: [ca.1940]-1999

Physical Description: electronic record : 7.66 GB, 147 files; 190 pages digitized from original

Scope & Content: Bill Waterworth enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force at the age of 18. On September 19, 1942, Waterworth was shot down over the French coast just short of completing his 33rd mission. Waterworth avoided capture by German patrols for two weeks before being captured and taken prisoner by the Gestapo. He was sent by boxcar to a Prisoner of War (POW) camp - Stalag VIIIB/344 - in Lamsdorf, Germany where he remained for three years. In 1943 the Red Cross issued each P.O.W. a blank 151 page logbook "A Wartime Log : A Remembrance from Home Through the Canadian Y.M.C.A." Waterworth treasured this log during his captivity and compiled it as a scrapbook collecting photographs, artwork by fellow prisoners, newsclippings, parcel lists and letters from home. In January 1945 the prisoners were forced to march from Poland to France, and he carried his log throughout the ordeal. His sense of history and purpose with the Wartime Log continued throughout his life, with follow-up stories of fellow POWs and of their reunions through to 1999.; Loan for copy in 2009 and digitized.

Name Access: Waterworth, Bill

Subject Access: War; WWII

Language: Language is English

Location (Original): Returned to Waterworth family

Location (Copy): O:\m_textual\m215_waterworth_archivalmaster

Location Copy Filename: m215_lc_1_accn8006

Related Material: S1 / 162 - Whyte Museum Oral History Prograamme : Bill Waterworth's Wartime Log interview with Bill Waterworth by Head Archivist E. J. (Ted) Hart, May 28, 2009; 08 M22a - Almost a lifetime / John McMahon

Creator: Waterworth, Bill

Category: Family and personal life

Title Source: Original title page

Processing Status: Unprocessed

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Personal Daytimers

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Part Of: Arthur Oliver Wheeler fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to the 1898 & 1899 personal diaries/daytimers of A. O. Wheeler. M546 / 5 : Includes travel from Ottawa to Calgary, travel around High River area. July measuring. Notations of office work and correspondence. Extensive documentation of weather, particularly during times at camp througho…

Date Range: 1898-1899

Reference Code: M546 / 5 to 6

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Diary

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Part Of: Arthur Oliver Wheeler fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M546 / V771

Sous-Fonds: M546

Accession Number: 2014.8312

Reference Code: M546 / 5 to 6

GMD: Diary

Date Range: 1898-1899

Physical Description: 2.7 cm of textual records (2 volumes ; 8.3 x 14.2 cm)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to the 1898 & 1899 personal diaries/daytimers of A. O. Wheeler. M546 / 5 : Includes travel from Ottawa to Calgary, travel around High River area. July measuring. Notations of office work and correspondence. Extensive documentation of weather, particularly during times at camp throughout August and September. Diary blank from November 17 to end. Memoranda section filled with numbers and names. Cash account section filled in for May to October and December. Diary blank up to May 25. M546 / 6 : includes daily notations of weather, office work, day to day activities, leisure. Diary blank up to February 21 regarding meter reading. Following two weeks list temperature highs and lows. Blank until April 21. Following entries regard camp throughout to September and throughout October travel around Mosquito Creek. Working on report and negatives throughout early December. On many entries he overwrites himself vertically. Memoranda, Notes and Bills Payable, Cash Account March to November.

Notes: M546 / 5 : blank pages not scanned - exception is first days of months prior to May. M546 / 6 : blank pages not scanned. Loose sheet in pocket at back is a recipe for [illegible].