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Canadian Officer Training Corps Canadian Officers' Training Corps Western University Battalion Collection / Combined Services Trust Committee (collector) Last revised: February 2013 University of British Columbia Archives Table of Contents Collection Description o Title / Dates of Creation / Physical Description o Collector’s Biographical Sketch o Scope and Content o Notes File List Catalogue entry (UBC Library catalogue) Collection Description Canadian Officers' Training Corps Western University Battalion collection. / Combined Services Trust Committee (collector) – 1913-1963. 1.2 m of textual records. 665 b&w photographs ; prints and negatives. 2 photograph albums. Collector’s Administrative History The Combines Services Trust Committee appears to have been established following the disbandment of military units at the University of British Columbia in the 1960s. The history of military activity associated with the University dates back to 1914 with the founding of the Canadian Officers' Training Corp at McGill University College of B.C. by Harry Logan. Disbanded in 1920, the C.O.T.C. unit at UBC was reorganized by Logan in 1928. During World War II, units of the Navy and Air Force were added to the campus military activity and together the units trained a total of 1,680 students for commissions. After the war enrolment in the service units declined but 50 to 100 students continued to train until 1968, when the units were disbanded. Scope and Content The collection consists of records generated by the Canadian Officers' Training Corps (UBC) and the 196th Western Universities Battalion. With the exception of the Daily Orders volumes and the annual reports of the Air Force, the bulk of the remaining material relates to World War I and the UBC Roll of Service. The photographs and albums, the latter including memorabilia as well as photographs, depict World War II and post-war activities. Notes File list available. Related records may be found in the Alma Mater Society fonds. File List BOX 1 Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Daily Orders 1928-40, 1941, 1942-46, 1943-46 Service Roll, U.B.C. C.O.T.C., 1915-1917 Reports of the Commanding Officer, Reserve University Squadron, R.C.A.F. (UBC), 1949-1958 Royal Canadian Air Force Reserve Officers' School, C.F.B. Clinton, Annual Report, 1967. Guests (Register) 1942-48, 1950-65, 1953-64 C.O.T.C. / R.U.S. Officers' Mess; Record of Attendance, 1962-67 Nominal Roll of attendance at drill No. 1 Platoon No. 3 Platoon 'D' Company BOX 2 Western Universities Battalion, 196th. Newsletter, Vol. 1 B.C. Veterans' Weekly, 1919 Historical record Canadian Educational Institutions of the Great War #10 UBC by Letson, H.F.G. Report of the Commanding Officer's memo of activities, 1948-1950 Canadian Marksman, 1931/32, 1936, 1937 Canadian Affairs, 1944 Military History General Orders, 1917 Amendments to "Instructions governing the administration of C.E.F. Units, 1916" B.C. in Canadian Federation Manuals for Camps, Billets and Buglers Scrapbook of World War II, compiled by Shrum, Gordon M. Unidentified scrapbook 1939-40 BOX 3 The following files have been maintained with the original number assigned by the Army. They are not complete, but there is a title page to each file, listing the documents they contain. #XI Returns and Reports, Daily and Semi-Monthly 1917 #XII Royal School of Infantry 1917 #XIII Transfers 1917 #XIV Transportation 1917 #XV Orders, District and Brigade #XVI Ordinance C.O.T.C. Regulations Manual, 1913 Daily Orders and Militia Orders, 1917 Circular letters, 1916 Circular letters and Militia Orders, 1917-1918 Canadian Expeditionary Forces, Discharges, 1916 Correspondence concerning recruits: Attestation papers Requests for exemption from Drill 1915-1917 Questionnaire and related correspondence concerning the UBC Registrar of Service (This material is arranged alphabetically, with a separate file for those who matriculated but were not mentioned in the War Book) Correspondence with T. Larsen re: the War Book, list of soldiers Tri-Services University Training Prize, 1963, correspondence Programs, Banquets for those leaving on active service, 1940s. PHOTOGRAPHS 168.1/001 Unidentified officers aboard ship, n.d. [Print] 168.1/002 Unidentified officers overlooking a military base, n.d. [Print] 168.1/003 Unidentified officers inside decorative gate, n.d. [Print] 168.1/004 Unidentified group photograph of officers, n.d. [Print] 168.1/005 Unidentified group photograph of officers, n.d. [Print] 168.1/006 Group photograph of officers participating in the ROTP/URTP conference, 1963 (List of group enclosed) [Print] 168.1/007 Group photograph of members of the COTC in Germany, September 23, 1957 (List of group enclosed) [Print] 168.1/008 Three unidentified officers consulting a map aboard ship, n.d. [Print] 168.1/009 Group photograph of unidentified officers in front of plane, n.d. [Print] 168.1/010 Unidentified group photograph of officers, n.d. [Print] 168.1/011 Unidentified group photograph of officers in front of plane, n.d. [Print] 168.1/012 Portrait of Lt. Col. Lawrence Ranta, n.d. [Small Print] 168.1/013 Mess dinner with W/C Ray Herbert and Lt. Clarke, February 12, 1960 [Print] 168.1/014 View of Tri-Services ball, n.d. [Print] 168.1/015 F/C Alpen at mess dinner, February 12, 1960 [Small Print] 168.1/016 Unidentified officers at social event, n.d. [Small Print] 168.1/017 Unidentified officers and wives at social event, n.d. [Small Print] 168.1/018 Unidentified officers at social event, n.d. [Small Print] 168.1/019 UBC President Norman McKenzie at COTC event, n.d. [Print] 168.1/020 Officer with teddy bear appearing in skit, n/d/ [Print] 168.1/021 Unidentified officer speaking at dinner (Norman Mackenzie and Gordon Shrum also at head table), n.d. [Print] 168.1/022 View of officers at mess dinner, n.d. [Print] 168.1/023 Two officers listening to radio, n.d. [Print] 168.1/024 View of officers at mess dinner, n.d. [Print] 168.1/025 Group of officers at social event, n.d. [Print] 168.1/026 Officer pinning rose on his date, n.d. [Print] 168.1/027 Group photograph of officers including Cpl. Wheatley, W/C Ray Herbert, F/L Turner, F/O Gish, S/L Laithwaite, Major J.M. Reynolds, G/C Miller, F/C Rollins at mess dinner, February 12, 1960 [Print] 168.1/028 Officers after film showing, n.d. [Print] 168.1/029 Unidentified officers with their dates at a ball, n.d. [Print] 168.1/030 Presentation of cheque to officer, June 30, 1960 [Print] 168.1/031 Presentation of grant and plaque made to Cadet Peter Brown (ROTP) by Lt. Col. R.E. Wilkin, February 24, 1959 [Print] 168.1/032 Group photograph at presentation of grant and plaque to Cadet Peter Brown (ROTP), February 24, 1959 [Print] 168.1/033 Group photograph at presentation of grant and plaque to Cadet Peter Brown (ROTP), February 24, 1959 [Print] 168.1/034 RCAF University Flight office in Armoury, n.d. [Print] 168.1/035 Office of A.R. Holmes in Armoury, n.d. [Print] 168.1/036 Aerial view of unidentified COTC located near waterfront (possibly Esquimalt), n.d. [Print] 168.1/037 Group of unidentified officers using tape recorder, n.d. [Print] 168.1/038 Group of unidentified officers using tape recorder, n.d. [Print] 168.1/039 Group photograph at flag raising, n.d. [Print] 168.1/040 Unidentified officer at typewriter, n.d. [Print] 168.1/041 Group photograph of officers with motorcycle with Ontario license plate, n.d. [Print] 168.1/042 Group of officers in warehouse, n.d. [Print] 168.1/043 Group of officers overlooking military base, n.d. [Print] 168.1/044 Group photograph of officers around engine, n.d. [Print] 168.1/045 Officers at electronics training at Clinton, Ontario examining a demonstrator unit, 1957 [Print] 168.1/046 Food preparation at the mess, n.d. [Print] 168.1/047 Two airmen consulting a map, n.d. [Print] 168.1/048 Group photograph of three airmen, n.d. [Print] 168.1/049 Three airmen examining flight manuals, n.d [Print] 168.1/050 Group photograph of three women officers, n.d. [Print] 168.1/051 Two officers using electronic equipment, n.d [Print] 168.1/052 Unidentified officer writing a report, n.d. [Print] 168.1/053 Lab technician looking through microscope with officer looking on, n.d. [Print] 168.1/054 Two airmen examining map by their planes, n.d. [Print] 168.1/055 Officer in library or file room, n.d. [Print] 168.1/056 Group photograph of four airmen in front of plane, n.d. [Print] 168.1/057 Female officer with desserts in mess, n.d. [Print] 168.1/058 Serving food in mess hall, n.d. [Print] 168.1/059 Group photograph of four officers with globe, n.d. [Print] 168.1/060 Two female officers using IBM data processing system, n.d. [Print] 168.1/061 Two female officers in front of flags, n.d. [Print] 168.1/062 Unidentified female officer reading “Statutes of Canada”, n.d. [Print] 168.1/063 Female officers in trophy room, n.d. [Print] 168.1/064 Officer pointing to roster list, n.d. [Print] 168.1/065 Officers waiting to see movie, n.d. [Print] 168.1/066 Two airmen examining map, n.d. [Print] 168.1/067 Group of officers watching film, n.d. [Print] 168.1/068 Gordie Crowe at survival training beside tent, n.d. [Print] 168.1/069 Officers and soldiers waiting to board ship, n.d. [Print] 168.1/070 Soldiers lowering into lifeboats from ship, n.d. [Print] 168.1/071 Soldiers boarding an air force transport plane, n.d.
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