World War, 1914-1918

[King George and Queen Mary leave the Houses of Parliament in a carriage after reading the Speech from the Throne]

AM54-S4-: Mil P281.58
Item
[ca. 1916]

AM1562-: 74-511
Item
1918

Part of City of Vancouver Archives documentary art collection

This item is a cartoon by Corporal Hugh Farmer depicting members of the 7th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces engaged in combat.

Queen's tea party

AM1519-: PAM Und. 230
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives pamphlet collection

Spencer family and 29th Vancouver Battalion regimental band and performers album

AM1376-F28
File
[between 1914 and 1920]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Item is an album showing images of family portraits and various family outings as well as images related to 29th Vancouver Battalion performers, such as Edmund A. Burke and other men in uniform as well as scenes of theatre performance with men in costume, the military theatre troupe the "See Toos" of the 2nd Canadian Division. Included in the album is a news clipping of the marriage of Pte. [Private] Joseph Sydney Spencer, member of the 29th Vancouver Battalion, and theatre and concert bills of performances in France including the Bonner Stadt Theatre. An inscription on the album cover states, "[?] With love to [Flo?] from Syd, Aug 26 1919". Some names and places are identified by inscription in the album.

29th Vancouver Battalion regimental brass band and performers album

AM1376-F27
File
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

File is an album showing portrait images of members of the 29th Vancouver Battalion entertainment performers in uniform, identified as: Capt Edmund A. Burke ; Sgt. Maj. Clapham, comedian ; Leslie Benson, impersonator ; Jack Hagan, comedian ; Harry [Ashton?], impersonator ; John Small, stage manager lead ; Alex McKee, comedian ; Ben Charlton, box office ; Bill Marr, bass ; Harold Watts, props, tenor, impersonator ; Geo. [George] Curtis, tenor ; Vic Hagan, tenor ; Dick Tinney, bass, piano ; Ben Skinner, tenor ; [unidentified], baritone ; Geo. [George] Stewart, carpenter etc. ; [unidentified], tailor etc. ; Frenchy, cook ; W. H. Foote, conductor ; Bill [Ericsson?], 1st violin ; Van Velzen, 1st violin ; Murray, 1st violin ; Geo. [George] Robson, 1st violin ; Cahill, 1st violin ; S. Simpkin, 2nd violin ; Tim [Saller], 2nd violin ; [Geo. Harley?], 1st violin ; Geo. [George] Johnson, 2nd violin ; Alex Joss, 2nd violin ; [Schnick?], cello ; [unidentified], centre bass ; Coram, centre bass ; Cooling, oboe ; Bucks Hoster, flute ; Tucker, flute ; Wallace, clarionette [clarinet] ; [?] Read, clarionette [clarinet] ; [unidentified], bassoon ; Dick Paradise, bassoon ; A. Somerset, cornet ; Hall, cornet ; Watson, French horn ; Art Stanford, French horn ; Charlie Williams, trombone, [T-?] Taylor, drums; and two other unidentified men [Harold Watts and T. Taylor]. Names of performers also appear be that of the "See Toos" theatre troupe of the 2nd Canadian Division.

[Second Army British Expeditionary Force view of enemy lines]

AM54-S4-: VLP 67.2
Item
Oct. 22, 1915

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing positions occuped by Germans after the "Big Drive" in 1914

[Second Army British Expeditionary Force view of enemy lines]

AM54-S4-: VLP 67.1
Item
Oct. 22, 1915

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing positions occupied by Germans after the "Big Drive" in 1914

International Longshoremens Association, Local 38-41, group photograph

AM1376-: CVA 49-7
Item
[ca. 1918]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Item is a photograph of the international longshoremens association, local 38-41 Prince Rupert, after World War 1. The banner behind the group has national emblems of the allies and the notice: "Enlisted 58, Wounded 20, Paid Supreme Sacrifice 10".

[Vancouver Daily Sun front page November 11, 1918]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1145
Item
May 14, 1945

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph of the front page of the Vancouver Daily Sun. Headline: "Armistice Signed Peace Declared"

The great war as I saw it.

D 547 .C2 S3 1934
1934

Part of City of Vancouver Archives library collection

A Merry Xmas

COV-S632-: CVA 789-131
Item
Dec., 1914

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Photograph is of a cartoon depicting soldiers at the front during World War One.

Spencer's Remnants present "twenty years after : down the road of remembrance"

AM1519-: PAM 1938-49
Item
1938

Part of City of Vancouver Archives pamphlet collection

Roll of Honour [composite image of police officers who served in World War One]

VPD-S214-: CVA 480-119
Item
[ca. 1920]

Part of Vancouver Police Department fonds

Item is a photograph showing portraits of officers who served in WWI with names beneath each individual.

[Members of 1st Canadian Reserve]

AM1052-: AM1052 P-894
Item
1915

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

Item is a postcard printed with an image of a group of army members sitting and standing in rows in front of the corrugated metal external wall of a building. Handwritten text at the bottom of the image is difficult to read in its entirety. One part of the top line reads "1st Canadian Reserve." One of the two handwritten annotations on the verso reads, "Taken at Shorncliff Reserve Camp - 1915, before leaving again for France in Sept after our wounds healed. Keep for your records." The other annotation reads, "See letter from Frank Martin July 30, 1965".

Guilty ! Prince Lichnowsky's disclosures

AM1519-: PAM Und. 19
Item
1916

Part of City of Vancouver Archives pamphlet collection

Portrait of Sherwood Lett as captain with 46th Saskatchewan Regiment

AM361-S9-: CVA 78-133
Item
[ca. 1914]

Part of Sherwood and Evelyn Lett family fonds

Tobin's tigers, 29th (Vancouver) battalion

AM1519-: PAM 1966-177
Item
1966

Part of City of Vancouver Archives pamphlet collection

Introduction to the register of the Thiepval Memorial, France

AM1519-: PAM 1933-59
Item
1930

Part of City of Vancouver Archives pamphlet collection

"The Memorial erected at Thiepval is one of those set up by the Imperial War Graves Commission to mark the battlefields of the Great War and to record the names of those officers and men of the British Armies who fell and whose graves are not known." File includes photograph of the monument.

Officers, N.C.O.'s [sic] and men died in the Great War 1914-19 : The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada (Vancouver, B.C.)