- McMaster University Archives and Research Collections
- Albert E. Adams fonds
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- Held by
- — via McMaster University Archives and Research Collections
- Creator
- Adams, Albert Ernest
- Dates
- 1916-1926 (indexed as 1916–1926)
- Level
- fonds
- Extent
- 6.5 cm of textual records. – 217 pp. (95 items).
- Scope & content
- Fonds consists of correspondence with four enclosures and two newspaper clippings. Correspondence amounts to 77 letters by Albert E. Adams to his mother Sarah (Heighes) Adams and one letter to his sister Elsie Adams. Enclosures consist of British propaganda literature to be dropped over German lines, two humourous military publications by Pte. W. Silk, and a battalion Christmas card, in which are listed all officers of the 134th Battalion, including Adams. One newspaper clipping concerns his death, taken from the Toronto Star of 8 October 1918. The other clipping, from an unknown source dated 26 August 1926, concerns the battle of Arras-Cambrai, in which Adams died.
- Location
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- Subjects
- First World War, 1914-1918; WWI - Canadian
- Access & use
- There are no access restrictions.
- Harvested
- 2026-10-15T07:23:33Z · source datestamp n/a · ead