File 006 - Military

0.07 l.m. of textual records, 48 photographs: b&w, 2 artefacts.

The file contains primary source information on the military career of Sherbrooke, QC's Lloyd H. Bowen from about 1921 to 1946. It consists of invitations military banquets and greeting cards from military officers and soldiers; correspondence from soldiers overseas during World War II; press clippings about the nomination of officers and about a banquet to honor Base Depot officers; Lloyd H. Bowen's 1921 military diary; his notebook of tactics; two texts by Lloyd H. Bowen on boxing and the Cadet system in Canadian schools; correspondence related to cadets' instruction courses and Militia staff courses; certificates of military qualifications; appointments; instructions from the Department of National Defense on the occasion of the royal visit to Sherbrooke in 1939; telegrams; documents related to the University of Bishop's College C.O.T.C.; an issue of The Legionary (Nov. 1930); a Red Cross armband; an identification artefact for a Soldiers' Reception Committee; a placard "A bas la conscription/Down with conscription"; Lloyd's military service records; documents related to his involvement as a member of the Committee for the Protection and Welfare of Canadian Prisoners of War; and a map from a training exercise around Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu (St. John's); and photographs. Among the photographs are: the Sherbrooke High School Cadet Corps in 1924, showing Lloyd H. Bowen among others; Lloyd in cadet and military uniforms; soldiers marching in Owen Sound, Ontario; photographs from the military base at Borden, Ontario (1941-1942); other identified people including Dan McManes, Gordon Johnston, Stewart Barton, Sargent Twain, Tom Merrett, George Elvidge, Graham George, Arthur Ottiwell, Darel Darcy, and John Clement Hobson; photographs from Lloyd's time in Borden, England and Eastbourne, England (1941); the Canadian Repatriation Liason Group (1945); as well as photographs from military training exercises.