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- OBJECT TYPE
- N/A
- DATE
- 1945–1965
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1994.0808.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Gen
- LOCATION
- Windsor, Ontario, Canada
More Information
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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