Rare military artefacts found in Red Deer
Posted Jun 3, 2011 12:44 pm.
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The Military Museums has received a priceless artifact less than a week before the 67th anniversary of D-Day.
A man found medals and a scrapbook filled with the personal accounts of a soldier discarded at the Red Deer landfill, and handed it over to the museum.
Warrant Officer Bruce Graham, with the museum tells 660News says the book belonged to Trooper R.H. Hill.
“The book is referred to as a war time log,” he says. “It was given by the YMCA to prisoners of war. This one is named to a Trooper Hill, from the Calgary Regiment (Tank). He was part of the uplanding, was taken prisoner, and spent the next three years as a prisoner of war, and this is just his record of his experiences in the camp.
Graham says the scrapbook is priceless and includes personal items, photos of camp life, prison money, dog tags and the names of soldiers that Hill served with in Dieppe.
“Very few of these survived the war, most of them were destroyed at the end and the amount of information in this thing is just unparalleled,” says Graham. “It has photos of his barrack block… photographs and people. It’s just truly, truly one of a kind.”
The book will be on display Sunday at the Military Museums.
