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Raymond Collishaw fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1908-1972.

Reference:

R2492-0-5-E, MG30-E280

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Moving images, Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

105431

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Raymond Collishaw fonds
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Fonds includes:

6 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1908-1972.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1.47 m of textual records.
783 photographs b&w, col.
1 film reel (25 min, 30 s).
2 maps

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of binders documenting the life and exploits of Collishaw; casualty registers of 22,000 of the 26,000 air casualties of World War I including German and British losses; squadron rosters, including lists of officers, associated correspondence of British and German combatant squadrons including Royal Flying Corps, Royal Naval Air Service, and the German Jastas (squadrons); correspondence between Collishaw and Directorate of History, DND, E.R. Grange; correspondence related to World War I and general aviation topics, 1965-1968.

Fonds contains photographs depicting aspects of the career of Air Vice-Marshall Raymond Collishaw during World War I, in the Royal Air Force between the wars, during World War II, and in retirement; personnel and aircraft of the R.N.A.S.; and R.A.F. stations and bases.

Fonds also includes a compilation film on the history of aviation, particularly military aviation since World War I, [ca. 1960-1969].

Fonds consists of a map dated 1918 showing locations of British and German air units, and Canadian and Austrlian Corps; and a map dated 1919 showing British battles from 8th Aug. to 11th Nov. 1918, and captures by British and Allied armies from 18th July to 11th Nov. 1918.

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Collishaw, Raymond, 1893-1976

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Collishaw, Raymond, 1893-1976

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Collishaw, Raymond, 1893-1976 : Raymond Collishaw, air force officer, was born in Nanaimo, B.C., and educated at the Naval College and Royal Air Force Staff College. He entered the Royal Canadian Navy in 1908 and served with the fishery protection service until 1914. He was a member of the 1911 Scott Antarctic Expedition.

Collishaw entered the Royal Naval Air Service in 1915. During the First World War, he was officially credited with downing 60 enemy aircraft. In 1918, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the new Royal Air Force. Between the wars, Collishaw served with the Royal Air Force in Egypt, South Russia, and the Middle East, in addition to England.

At the beginning of the Second World War, Collishaw was the Air Officer Commanding, Egypt Group. He was promoted to Air Commodore in 1940, serving in North Africa. He was promoted to the rank of Air Vice-Marshall in 1942 and he retired the following year. Throughout his career, he received numerous awards. After his retirement from the Royal Air Force, Collishaw settled in West Vancouver with his wife, the former Juanita Eliza Tripp of New Westminster, B.C. He became actively involved in the natural resources industry and served as president of Craigment Mines Ltd. for five years. He was also president or director of several other oil and copper companies.

During his retirement years, Collishaw conducted detailed research on military aviation during World War I and corresponded with numerous airmen, both Allied and German. He was thus able to preserve a great deal of information that might otherwise have been lost.

See: Canadian Encyclopedia, p. 374-5; Encyclopedia Canadiana, vol. 3, p. 23.

Finding aid:

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(Paper) Textual: Finding aid is a descriptive file list arranged chronologically for the career, casualty register, and correspondence series; numerically for squadron rosters within each service; and alphabetically for the subject files. MSS1490

(Other) Photographs: See "Photographic inventories, indexes, and caption lists arranged by accession number." FA-500

Moving images: (Electronic) See MISACS for item level descriptions.

Cartographic material (Other) Please consult lower level descriptions. 84502/848. (90: Open)

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General note:

A small (6cm) accession of Collishaw papers was received from R. Munro, Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame, Edmonton, Alberta, in 1977. This included two chapters of his unpublished memoirs, a file of air casualty registers, various air historical texts by Collishaw, and two files of miscellaneous writings and notes. Although interfiled, these are identified as being from the 1977 accession by their file titles. Photographs received from Raymond Collishaw, Vancouver, British Columbia, and Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame, Edmonton, Alberta. The majority of the Collishaw collection was transferred from the Directorate of History, Department of National Defence, Ottawa, in 1980. The 1977 acquisition from the Aviation Hall of Fame is interfiled with the 1980 accession, although identified as being from the 1977 accession by the file titles.
Subject heading:

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World War, 1914-1918

Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918

Fighter pilots Canada

Pilotes de chasse Canada
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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(1984-06-07)
1977-194 NPC
1977-257 NPC
1984-0218 MISA
1984-110 NPC
1984-228 NPC
1988/0177 MSS

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MG30-E280
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG30 E 280] 6--9

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 1490] 117

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Moving images (film)

[Consultation90 Open]

Cartographic material

[Consultation90 Open]

Cartographic material: microform

[Consultation99 Closed pending processing]

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Photographs: no restrictions on use or reproduction. Various copyrights on items less than 50 years old; copyright expired on items more than 50 years old. Credit: name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / copy negative number.
Moving images: Reproduction and use in any form requires the written permission of copyright holder.
Cartographic material: There is no restriction on access to or reproduction of this material. Credit Library and Archives Canada.

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