Kathleen Waddell trained as a WREN in Galt, Ontario. Chief Sanderson was her superior officer.
The 1915 flood of the North Saskatchewan River. Kathleen Waddell was born in the same year as the flood. Her father took the photograph.
Kathleen Waddell, Lillian Crawford
Includes Princess Alice Alvey, Honorary Commandant of the WRCNS
Kathleen Waddell in WREN uniform.
The fonds consists predominantly of records from Kathleen Waddell’s time in the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service. They include one menu card for the Christmas Dinner 1943 of HMCS Stadacona and photographs of Kathleen as a Wren (EA-557-1 to EA-557-11).
There are also photographs of the 1915 flood of the North Saskatchewan River taken by Kathleen’s father, Robert Waddell (EA-557-12 to EA-557-14).
Ruth Boyden, Kathleen Waddell and Winona Hauff off to Galt, Ontario for training.