World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--France

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Arthur Lord interview

CALL NUMBER: T0246:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Canadian Officers' Training Corps UBC - WWI and WWII RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-07-25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Arthur Lord was born in 1897 and discusses his family background. High school cadets. Canadian Officers' Training Corps (COTC). Western Universities Battalion. Camp Hughes. England. Vimy Ridge. TRACK 2: Vimy campaign. Wounded. Attitude to WWI. President Wesbrook. Campus life. COTC disbanded 1919. Graduation. UBC Senate from 1924. Re-establishment of COTC in 1928.;

CALL NUMBER: T0246:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arthur Lord : Canadian Officers' Training Corps, UBC - WWI and WWII, 1915-1945 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-06-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Arthur Lord discusses international affairs in the 1930s. Joining the COTC. Training and duties. Importance of discipline. Officers' Mess. Qualities of a good officer. TRACK 2: WWI and WWII students compared. Value of military training on campus.;

Dr. Norman MacKenzie interview : [Specht, 1974]

CALL NUMBER: T0507:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-05-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dr. Norman A.M. MacKenzie discusses his family background. Education. Pictou County, N.S. Schools -- Nova Scotia. Joins O.T.C. Dalhousie 1914. Enlists. Training period. Overseas in France -- "Plug Street", Ypes. TRACK 2: Somme. Arras. Catches flu and convalescence England. Passchendaele. 1918 -- Arras front. Amieus. Actions as a scout. Military medals. Cambrai-Bourlon. CALL NUMBER: T0507:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-05-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dr. Norman MacKenzie discusses his discharge. Education plans. Post-war attitude to war. International affairs 1920s. Versailles Treaty. Visit to Russian OTC. University of Toronto. Anti-military training on campus. TRACK 2: University of Toronto and UBC compared re: military. Military in Canada inter-war years. Opinion of value of OTC. Sections of society supporting military. Effect of Depression on international stability. Becomes president U.N.B.C.S.A. incident, 1940. CALL NUMBER: T0507:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-05-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dr. Norman MacKenzie describes the Canadian Officers' Training Corps, UBC. Dr. Shrum. Armoury. President's house. Opinion on value of OTC. Discussion of commanding officers at UBC. Pipe Band. TRACK 2: UBC commanding officers of COTC, Reserve University Squadron, University Naval Training Division. Reasons commanding officers served in units. Opinion of quotas and phasing out of units. Political parties and their attitudes. Integration [of the Armed Forces]. Efforts to resist disbandment.

Gordon Shrum interview : [Specht & Mackenzie, 1973]

CALL NUMBER: T0243:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Canadian Officers' Training Corps, UBC, 1928-1946 PERIOD COVERED: 1914-1946 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-07-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dr. Gordon M. Shrum discusses his family background and education. Admiration for University of Toronto professors. Joins the Canadian Officers' Training Corps (COTC) at the University of Toronto. Enlistment as a gunner. World War I experiences at Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele and earns military medal at Mons. TRACK 2: Attitude to WWI and military. Completes education and moves to UBC. Origins of COTC UBC in 1928 and reasons for joining. Dr. H. Logan, Dean Brock supporters. Position of President Klinck. Student opposition. Building of armoury. Decision to waive pay. Acquires Emily Carr paintings for Officers' Mess. Comparison of COTC training with military colleges. COTC facilities at UBC.;

CALL NUMBER: T0243:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Canadian Officers' Training Corps, UBC, 1928-1946 PERIOD COVERED: 1914-1946 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-07-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Gordon Shrum discusses the COTC facilities on and off the UBC campus 1929-1940. Staff Sgt. Smith. Decision to waive pay. Duties as Captain in COTC. Inspector Gen. Griesback. Anti-war movement; 1934. Morale. Training program. Comparison of Col. Logan and Col. Letson. Dr. Shrum becomes Commanding Officer in 1937. Importance of discipline. TRACK 2: Effect of international developments. Government policy re: COTC during wartime. Wartime expansion of COTC. Getting materials to build armoury. Faculty attitudes. Student attitudes. UNTD. UATP. Summer Camps.;

CALL NUMBER: T0243:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Canadian Officers' Training Corps, UBC, 1928-1946 PERIOD COVERED: 1914-1946 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-07-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Gordon Shrum discusses COTC Training program for WWII. Faculty and students' attitudes to COTC. Dean Finlayson. President Klinck. Chancellor McKechnie and Hamber. Committee for Military Affairs. COTC officer staff WWII. President N. MacKenzie supports military units. COTC contribution to war effort. COTC standards. TRACK 2: Opinions on value of officer training to individual. Brief discussion of some wartime military and political leaders. Position on Selection Board COTC. Annual Reports. Administration.;

Henry Copeland interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979 SUMMARY: Henry Copeland discusses the WWI years spent in the 5th Battalion "The Fifth Western Cavalry", of Paton, Saskatchewan. Training in England. How he found out about the War. Conditions at the front (armament). To France in 1915 at Ypres. Routines at the front. A special raid. Winter on the Somme. A close call. Vimy -- the barrage and the attack. Return to Canada, to Manitoba and move to B.C. The farm at Notch Hill near Salmon Arm. Incident with soldier's settlement board. First Christmas. Hard times. The coffee shop and store. The Depression years. Christmas just before the Depression, a funny story. Depression conditions. Christmas for the poor (dinners). Family matters. Christmas dinner, presents. Notch Hill background. A story of a Christmas in the Depression.

H.F.G. Letson interview

CALL NUMBER: T0248:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Canadian Officers' Training Corps - cadet, officer, and C.O., 1914-1936 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-08-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: General H.F.G. Letson (born 1896) discusses his family background. High school cadets. Formation of COTC, WWI. President Wesbrook. 196th Battalion. Overseas in France and at Vimy Ridge. Returns to UBC in 1918. Disbandment. Views on anti-miltary feeling on campus. TRACK 2: B.C. Regiment 1920s. Co-operation of militia with COTC. Becomes Commanding Officer of COTC. Gallipoli lectures. Musketry. "My foreign legion". Philosophy of COTC. Personal feelings. Interest in history.;

CALL NUMBER: T0248:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Canadian Officers' Training Corps - cadet, officer, and C.O., 1914-1936 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-08-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: General H.F.G. Letson discusses incidents in 1919 of student opposition. 1941 military attacks in Washington. 1942 Assistant General in charge of recruitment. Problems of recruitment WWII. Story by Sam Hughes. Explanation of WWII policy of dividing Canadian army. TRACK 2: General McNaughton and autonomy issue. Post-WWII committee for militia policy. Views on disbandment of Canadian Officers' Training Corps. Views on integration. Support of COTC.;

John Crompton interview

CALL NUMBER: T0032:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John Crompton RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-04-20 SUMMARY: John Crompton was born in 1893 in England and immigrated to Canada in 1906. He gives a personal biography and describes Vancouver of 1906, including its people, industries, port and cultural life. He recalls his work with a gas company and his life prior to enlistment in the armed forces for WWI.

CALL NUMBER: T0032:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John Crompton (Jack) RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-04-20 SUMMARY: John (Jack) Crompton describes his enlistment in Vancouver and his service overseas until the time he was wounded in 1916. He covers the movements of his company in Belgium, Hill 60, battles, equipment, trenches, rain, and rats. He was a rifleman at this time.

CALL NUMBER: T0032:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John Crompton (Jack) RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-04-20 SUMMARY: After being wounded in 1916 and convalescence in England, Jack Crompton continues with the forces in France in 1916. He describes the movements in France, encounters with the Germans, gas warfare, machine gunning, and especially his part at Vimy Ridge.

Percy Godenrath fonds

  • PR-1022
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  • 1916-1919

The fonds consists of copies of official Canadian photographs taken during World War I between 1916 and 1919. The photographs are in seven albums entitled B.C. War Records and stamped "Provincial Library". Each album contains numbered copy prints stamped "Copyright Canada 1919" with captions attached.
No. 1: Ypres to Somme [Library sticker: Section 5, War photographs no. 4] : 50 b&w photographs
No. 2: Vimy Ridge to Hill 70 [Library sticker: Section 5, War photographs no. 5] : 50 b&w photographs
No. 3: Passchendaele to Arras [Library sticker: Section 5, War photographs no. 3] : 50 b&w photographs
No. 4: Cambrai to Mons [Library sticker: Section 5, War photographs no. 2] : 49 b&w photographs
No. 5: Behind the lines 2 local units [Library sticker: Section 5, War photographs no. 6] : 50 b&w photographs
No. 6: Miscellaneous [Library sticker: Section 5, War photographs no. 1] : 53 b&w photographs
No. 7: With the Canadian Corps, 1918 [Library sticker: Section 5, War photographs no. 7] : 48 b&w photographs

Godenrath, Percy Francis