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Reference NoPD19/1
TitleScrapbook of newspaper cuttings, photographs, reports, correspondence and concert memorabilia relating to the activities of the Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit
DescriptionScrapbook of newspaper cuttings, photographs, reports, correspondence and concert memorabilia.
Some press cuttings relate to the establishment of 'Civil Service Holidays' (pages 1- 8); the vast majority of material records the activities of the Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit (across pages 74-160), and includes the first five issues of the Newfoundland Foresters Bulletin (1944-1945) (between pp. 72-73).
Also includes:
Letter from Macdonald & Morrison (Inverness) Ltd with account for 1944 (between p. 70/71)
"Blueprint for Newfoundland. An Industrial Prospectus for Newfoundland Development" by Temple Butler and cutting from People's Journal (between p. 90/91)
Loose item (between p. 112/3) - letter from Emily Butler to Tom Hall re. her son's grave
Loose item (between p. 114/115) - two letters re. establishing prize at Kingussie Secondary school in Olive May (Sybie) Clark's memory
Loose item (between p.132/3) - letter to BBC
Map, oversize (in back cover)

Loose items from volume stored in separate envelope:
Rates of pay and conditions table
Operations document
34 photographs, most labelled on reverse
Pencil lyrics of "Ten Little Lumbergills"
Ink lyrics of "Hitlers Dream"
Paper on 3rd Inverness (Newfoundland Forestry) Battalion Home Guard
Letter re. request for leave, possibly draft
Date4 December 1937 - 1 March 1945
Extent1 volume
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