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OBJECT TYPE: N/A
DATE: 1945–1965
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 1994.0808.001

MANUFACTURER: Unknown
MODEL: Gen
LOCATION: Windsor, Ontario, Canada

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 1
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: paper; cloth bound card stock cover

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 29.2 cm
Width: 23.5 cm
Height: N/A
Thickness: 4.0 cm
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Aviation
Category: Archives
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: Unknown
Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
City: Windsor

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Unknown
Period: WWII (1939-1945); tour of active service appears from contents to have been ca. 1944-1945, hand written entry on p. 57 made during or after 1965
Canada: Unknown
Function: souvenir/diary compiled by donor Flight Sergeant William R. Weir, RCAF, documenting his service as a gunner aboard Halifax & Lancaster bombers with the 433 Squadron, 6 Group/ scrapbook contains predom. photographs, clippings, letters, maps, paper currency, momentos such as a menu, ticket, leave pass, drawings, hand written notations, a cloth crest form a Hitler Youth shirt on p. 51
Technical: Unknown
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: lettering hand painted on cover reads: THE/GEN/BM-V/F/S BILL WEIR/CAN R-187797/433 SQUADRON/W.R. WEIR"; lettering hand written in ink at top of first page reads: "W.R. Weir R-187797/FLT/SGT MIDUPPER GUNNER/43 SQUADRON/HALIFAX + LANCASTER BOMBERS/6 GROUP"; printed lettering at bottom of first page reads: "Marcus Ward Newspaper Cutting Books/MANUFACTURED BY/McCAW, STEVENSON & ORR, Ltd., BELFAST & LONDON."
Missing: N/A
Finish: cover is red with predom. white lettering & black insignia
Decoration: insignia on cover is artist's rendering of single-wing RCAF Air Gunner's qualification badge

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Unknown Manufacturer, Scrapbook, between 1945–1965, Artifact no. 1994.0808, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1994.0808.001/

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