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Military service [textual record, graphic material]

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Date:

1945-1953.

Reference:

R13880-9-6-E

Type of material:

Photographs, Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4120182

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Peter Worthington fonds

Military service
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Series includes:

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Date(s):

1945-1953.

Place of creation:

Korea (South)

Extent:

0.1 m of textual records.
10 photographs : b&w.

Language of material:

English

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The series comprises records of Peter Worthington's service in the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War and the Canadian Army in the Korean War. For the navy, there is only his journal as a Sub-Lieutenant from June to August 1945. Rather than being a chronicle of daily events, it discusses topics of interest to him on a day-to-day basis, like the question of volunteering for the Pacific war (on August 12th). The army material includes a brief diary of his training at Camp Borden and Meaford in 1951 and detailed field notes and monthly newsletters from March 1952 to November 1953 while in Korea. As intelligence officer (and author of the battalion newsletter), his field notes provide a valuable record of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry 3rd Battalion, from military operations to camp life. In September 1953, for example, he describes soldiers' impressions of visiting Tokyo on leave and the impact of USO shows on troop morale.

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Private
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Graphic (photo)

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Volume [R13880] 48

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Textual records

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Volume [R13880] 46

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