This file contains a photograph of the McGill University contingent of the Canadian Officer Training Corps with the caption: "No. 3 camp A5C.E.T.C., Petawawa, May 1944."
The collection documents the involvement of McGill faculty, students, alumni, and staff during the Second World War. It contains information on 5568 men and women on active service, including 295 women. It also provides information on the 298 dead, 52 prisoners of war, and 629 recipients of medals.
The greater portion consists of folders, index cards, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and photographs of individual soldiers and civilians. Index cards, documents and photographs were created and accumulated by Fetherstonhaugh and placed in alphabetical order within specific categories. The collection contains four distinct series: index cards; textual documents, including newspaper clippings; correspondence and articles arranged by subject; and photographs. The first series contains subseries reflecting Fetherstonhaugh’s original subdivision categories.
The index cards are arranged in the following groupings:
-Subversive activities
-Killed
-Prisoners of war
-University staff
-Macdonald College
-Army course
-COTC
-US
-General list A-H
-General list I-Mc
-General list M-Z
-Returned from active service
-Photos in extension file
-Photos on loan
-Women
-Civil
Other files in the collection include correspondence and newspaper clippings arranged by particular subjects; correspondence and newspaper clippings concerning the McGill War Memorial Campaign, 1947-1949; Fetherstonhaugh's account book of income and expenditures, and some vouchers, 1942-1946; McGill News articles, 1942-1946; correspondence, memoranda, invoices, reviews, and newspaper clippings, 1947-1948, concerning the book McGill University at War, 1914-1918; 1939-1945.
McGill University War Records Office
This file contains a photograph of four Canadian soldiers examining barbed wire.
The fonds consists of a file of correspondence regarding the publication of R.C. Fetherstonhaugh's McGill University at War 1914-1918 and 1939-1945: raised for use in the Comptroller's Office.
Fetherstonhaugh, R.C. (Robert Collier), 1892-1949
The fonds consists of condolence letters on the occasion of Wayne Corse's death during active service in World War II; other textual records; convocation program, 1943; McGill Daily banquet, 1939, 1940; card from the Canadian government, 1927; pamphlet "My Son is Missing" broadcast on the CBC; business card; McGill handbook 1941-1942; photos of Wayne Corse, Rosamond Brown; certificate from McGill University approximately 1942; McGill pin; and military identification tags.
Corse, Wayne York