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Robert Walton Scott fonds [textual record, graphic record]
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Record information Robert Walton Scott fonds [textual record, graphic record]
Date:1916-1919, 1935-1936.Reference:R10907-0-4-EType of material:Textual material, PhotographsFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:206043Date(s):1916-1919, 1935-1936.Place of creation:GermanyExtent:3 cm of textual records.
8 photographs b&w.Language of material:EnglishScope and content:Postcards and letters from R.W. Scott to his family while he was a prisoner of war in Germany Oct. 1916 - Nov. 1918 and letters about him sent to his sister Mrs. James Gillan in Pakenham ON 1916-1918. Legal documents on the settling of Scott's estate after he died in Edmonton AB in 1935.Provenance:Additional name(s):Biography/Administrative history:Scott, Robert Walton, 1875-1935 : R.W. Scott was born in Pakenham ON in 1875 and later moved to Leduc AB. He volunteered to serve in the Canadian military in Feb. 1916 and became a sapper in the Canadian Engineers. He was taken prisoner in Oct. 1916 and remained in German prisoner of war camps until Nov. 1918. Scott died in Edmonton AB in 1935.Additional information:General note:Received in 2002 from the estate of Naomi Jackson Groves.Custodial history:James Walton Groves, a nephew of R.W. Scott, was an executor of R.W. Scott's estate in 1935-1936.Related material:See also the James Walton Groves fonds (MG31-J14), nephew of Robert Walton Scott.Subject heading:Source:Private -
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