One of our goals is to provide access to archival materials that may have potential interest to researchers. We have been doing some of this through pages on this website.

In the past year, however, our collections management database has been upgraded to allow us to add documents such as pdfs which can also be made available in the Public Access view – the one any visitor can see. So where we have scanned certain documents, we can now provide the scans to researchers rather than just describe that record.

We recently scanned the seventy-three issues of the “Regimental Newsletter” (talk about monotonous!) which were published by the Regimental Depot between 25 November 1959 and 30 June 1970.  These varied in size from the first issue of 2 pages to the last which was 88 pages. They cover more than half of the cold war period when the regiment consisted of a regular force training depot, two regular force battalions, and a militia battalion. These supplemented the annual “Powder Horn” publications (1960-1970) and provided information about and often letters from officers deployed or posted externally to the battalions, various postings, promotions, obituaries, cadet corps updates, museum reports, cartoons, and a host of other tidbits.

• 00009 – Newsletter Regimental Newsletters Issues 1 to 52 (1959-1965)
• 00004 – Newsletter Regimental Newsletters, Issues 54 to 59 (1965-1966)
• 00005 – Newsletter Regimental Newsletters, Issues 60 to 64 (1967-1968)
• 00006 – Newsletter Regimental Newsletters, Issues 65 to 67 (1967-1968)
• 00007 – Newsletter Regimental Newsletters, Issues 67 to 73 (1968-1970)

Another example of recently scanned material is several scrapbooks of news clippings of the 1910 Trip to England which have recently proved valuable to a researcher writing a book on the trip:

• 02234 – 1910 Trip Scrapbook
• 02246 – 1910 Trip Scrapbook
• 02247 – 1910 Trip Scrapbook
• 02248 – 1910 Trip Scrapbook

In addition, we can also add URLs to the record and again make them available in the Public Access View. That means if we’ve already uploaded scans to our website, we can just link to that from the collection record. We’ll be working on updating those links in the future.

In the meantime, you can find a variety of materials on our Research and our Archives page with past issues of the annual Rifleman Magazine and the Powder Horn newsletters (not the annual publication from 1960-1970 yet), nominal rolls, 19th Century Regimental Orders, diaries and memoirs, etc.

We hope you’ll find these useful and/or at least interesting reads!