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  <title>Ivan Day fonds</title>

      <creator>Day, Ivan S.</creator>
  
      <subject>Military</subject>
      <subject>Law and justice</subject>
      <subject>Weser (Ship)</subject>
      <subject>Prince Robert (Ship)</subject>
  
  <description>The fonds consists of documents of German prisoners-of-war (World War II) from the MS Weser captured by the HMCS Prince Robert. Documents include German identification papers, prisoner&#039;s autographs with photographs and newsclippings reportings the events surrounding the Weser&#039;s capture. Fonds also includes autographs of officers and crew of the German freighter Hermonthis intercepted by the HMCS Prince Henry, as well as a list of Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy ships which visited Esquimalt, 1845-1939. Fonds includes photographs of the MS Weser, photographs taken by German prisoners-of-war of views of Colombia, gliders and themselves, and photographs of Esquimalt, HMCS Prince Robert, interned Japanese fishing vessels and the RMS Queen Elizabeth.</description>

  
  
  
  
      <format>8 items;61 photographs</format>
  
  <identifier>http://www.memorybc.ca/ivan-day-fonds;dc</identifier>

  <identifier>L1734-40;P3567-68;P3579-87</identifier>

  <source></source>

  
      <relation>http://www.memorybc.ca/maritime-museum-of-british-columbia;isdiah</relation>
    <relation>Maritime Museum of British Columbia</relation>
  
      <coverage>Esquimalt</coverage>
  
  <rights></rights>

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