Mennonite Archival Information Database

C.C. Rempel

CA MHC PP-14-Photo 088-198.0
Einzelstück
1918

Teil vonPeter J. Dyck (1878-1947) and John P. Dyck (1901-1990) family fonds

C.C. Rempel served in the medical corp at the Turkish. (later lived in Elm Creek, Manitoba)

Forestry service men who worked near Petrograd (Petersburg)

CA MHC PP-14-Photo 088-184.0
Einzelstück
1917

Teil vonPeter J. Dyck (1878-1947) and John P. Dyck (1901-1990) family fonds

This photo shows a group of men with horses and sleds hauling wood in the wintertime from a forest near Petrograd (Petersburg). Peter K. Rempel is one of them.

Horse and two-person carriage

CA MHC PP-14-Photo 088-179.0
Einzelstück
1916

Teil vonPeter J. Dyck (1878-1947) and John P. Dyck (1901-1990) family fonds

This photo shows two men riding in a carriage pulled by a horse. The man on the right is J. Dyck of Landskrone.

A surveying crew in forestry service, Russia

CA MHC PP-14-Photo 088-131.0
Einzelstück
1915

Teil vonPeter J. Dyck (1878-1947) and John P. Dyck (1901-1990) family fonds

This photo shows 20 men in the forestry service in Russia posing with their land surveying equipment. They are standing in a clearing with forest in the background. The location was close to the Black Sea. The photo includes J.J. Janzen who later lived in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Nikolai Engbrecht

CA MHC PP-14-Photo 088-191.0
Einzelstück
between 1915-1917

Teil vonPeter J. Dyck (1878-1947) and John P. Dyck (1901-1990) family fonds

Nikolai Engbrecht was in the medical service (Sanitaeter) at the Turkish front from 1915 to 1917.

Forestry service in Russia

CA MHC PP-14-Photo 088-129.0
Einzelstück
1915

Teil vonPeter J. Dyck (1878-1947) and John P. Dyck (1901-1990) family fonds

This photo shows 5 men posing at a pine tree in the forest in Crimea. On the right is D.P. Goerzen (later, of Calgary, Alberta).

Heinrich Lepp

CA MHC PP-14-Photo 088-143.0
Einzelstück
ca. 1915

Teil vonPeter J. Dyck (1878-1947) and John P. Dyck (1901-1990) family fonds

?? Lepp, forest watchman

CA MHC PP-14-Photo 088-189.0
Einzelstück
1915

Teil vonPeter J. Dyck (1878-1947) and John P. Dyck (1901-1990) family fonds

This Mr. Lepp served in northern Russia, probably near St. Petersburg.

Forestry service in northern Russia during the First World War

CA MHC PP-14-Photo 088-123.0
Einzelstück
[between 1914-1918]

Teil vonPeter J. Dyck (1878-1947) and John P. Dyck (1901-1990) family fonds

This photo shows a group of men posing in front of a building -- four men are reclining in the foreground, the rest are standing in two rows behind them. The style of jackets and caps on the men vary in colour and style. The group includes a Peter Neufeld, ? Hamm, and Jacob Heide.

Constructing barracks

CA MHC PP-14-Photo 088-183.0
Einzelstück
[between 1914-1917]

Teil vonPeter J. Dyck (1878-1947) and John P. Dyck (1901-1990) family fonds

This photo shows additional barracks being built for the reservists -- older men that were called up -- men up to the age of 40.

Log building under construction

CA MHC PP-14-Photo 088-188.0
Einzelstück
[between 1914-1917]

Teil vonPeter J. Dyck (1878-1947) and John P. Dyck (1901-1990) family fonds

This photo shows a railway track in the foreground and a log building under construction in the background. Probably near St. Petersburg in northern Russia.

In the dining car of medical service train 177

CA MHC PP-14-Photo 088-193.0
Einzelstück
[between 1914-1917]

Teil vonPeter J. Dyck (1878-1947) and John P. Dyck (1901-1990) family fonds

This photo includes (l-r): Gerhard Rempel (officer in charge) (Slavgrod) , Alexander Harder (grandson of famous poet) , Peter Krueger (son of clock maker), Peter Wiens (Chortitiza), Dietrich Redekop (Nikopol), Abram Penner (Borisovo) (later became a communist), Franz Sawatzky (Siberia) and Tonya (a Polish nurse who dispensed medicine).