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Carberry Plains Archives Royal Air Force
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JOHN SEXTON fonds

  • CA CPA 1994.64
  • Fonds
  • 1941-1943

Fonds consists of scrapbooks of the Rip Chords, and their famous Concert Party, including programmes, press clippings, personal and fan correspondence, invitations, and photographs. Of note is the original musical score for the Carberry Boat Song. Includes the RAF Rag, and the Journal of the RAF published at the Royal Air Force camp, and service flying training school badge.

Sexton, John, [19-?]-[after 1994]

NELSON BUTT fonds

  • CA CPA 1995.39
  • Fonds
  • 1936-1970

Collection comprises 2 series. Textual records consist of twenty-nine scribblers detailing watch repair accounts (1936-1968), calendars for the shop and other businesses in Carberry, a Rex Cafç menu signed by Royal Air Force members (1940-1945), programmes for organ dedication at the Carberry United Church (1951), a Rip Chords performance, the Music and Arts Festival, and the Coronation Service (1953), and correspondence. Includes minutes for Carberry Business Men (1942-1943), honours and ration book of Bertha Butt, three maps showing parts of Carberry. There are 95 black and white photographs, 36 coloured photographs, 23 coloured negatives, and 67 black and white negatives. Photographs show events and people in the Carberry area.

Butt, Nelson Jasper