Collection search - Robert Walton Scott fonds [textual record, graphic record]

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Robert Walton Scott fonds [textual record, graphic record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1916-1919, 1935-1936.

Reference:

R10907-0-4-E

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

206043

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Robert Walton Scott fonds
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1916-1919, 1935-1936.

Place of creation:

Germany

Extent:

3 cm of textual records.
8 photographs b&w.

Language of material:

English

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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.

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Scott, Robert Walton, 1875-1935

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Scott, Robert Walton, 1875-1935

Biography/Administrative history:

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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.

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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:

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Prisoners of war Canada

Prisonniers de guerre Canada

Prisoners of war Germany

Prisonniers de guerre Allemagne
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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2003-00108-5
MG31-J12
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Volume [R10907] 1

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