{"id":3764,"date":"2024-08-25T17:17:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T00:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/?p=3764"},"modified":"2025-11-05T14:43:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:43:43","slug":"help-us-find-these-artifacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/help-us-find-these-artifacts\/","title":{"rendered":"HELP US FIND THESE ARTIFACTS"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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HELP US FIND THESE ARTIFACTS<\/a><\/h2><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Month:\u00a0<\/span>August 2024<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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…attributed to Chinese Canadian WWI veteran, WH Louie.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

These items were donated to CCMMS and unfortunately went missing by Canada Post. A police report has been filed and other military museums have been notified and asked to check their collections and to contact us if anyone tries to sell or donate any of these items to their museums.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Any leads that would help us locate these irreplaceable artifacts would be greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n\n

If you see any of these times being sold on ebay or other online sites, please let us know.<\/p>\n\n

WH Louie Collection includes:<\/strong>
1. Black Leather Graphic Diary \u2013 1919
2. Red Leather Imperial Bank of Canada bifold pouch \u2013 Includes: bank book, YMCA\u00a0receipt, Article \u2013 Casualties among Canadian Soldiers, Receipt \u2013 Certificate of Passing a Registered Postal Packet, In Flanders Fields poem
3. Blue Pay book \u2013 attributed to Walter Louie
4. Photograph of Walter Louie in uniform, kept in a cardboard bifold
5. Brown Canadian Paybook \u2013 Active Duty \u2013 Attributed to W.H. Louie with receipts
6. Gold plated clip with chain \u2013 in plastic bag
7. C\/29 \u2013 clip
8. Bronze uniform button with crown x 3
9. Canada uniform button
10. Small Canadian Infantry pin with blue enamel
11. Bronze Maple Leaf badge with leather strap
o W.H. Louie \u2013 B.H.Q. Signals \u2013 29 th CDN Bn
12. Brown Leather strap with silver plated button at either end
Circular and octagonal service tags connected by string
o Circle: Canadians \u2013 2323392 \u2013 Louie W H \u2013 P \u2013 29 BN
o Octagon: Canadians \u2013 P \u2013 Louie W H \u2013 2323392 \u2013 29 BN
13. Gold plated mesh chain with triangular florets on either side
14. Medal \u2013 1914-1918 with rider on horse; no ribbon
15. Gold Plated medallion \u2013 The Great War For Civilisation \u2013 1914-1919
16. Bronze cufflink (?) \u2013 circular piece with a man on front Brass badge
17. G.A. Carlin \u2013 Co 327 G – US Marine Corps A.E.F
Silver closed loop hook with mother of pearl handle
6 bullets In brown lined box \u2013 Metal fish with enamelled London crest<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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HELP US FIND THESE ARTIFACTS Month:\u00a0August 2024 …attributed to Chinese Canadian WWI veteran, WH Louie.\u00a0 These items were donated to CCMMS and unfortunately went missing by Canada Post. A police report has been filed and other military museums have been notified and asked to check their collections and to contact us if anyone tries to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","post-preview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3764"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4970,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions\/4970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}