Frontline Salute: Red Gables Hospital Part 2
I’m continuing my tribute to those battling COVID-19 in our hospitals, nursing homes and as first responders by digging through my archives of First World War hospital photographs. This is […]
Frontline Salute: Red Gables Hospital Part 1
I’m continuing my tribute to those battling COVID-19 in our hospitals, nursing homes and as first responders by digging through my archives of First World War hospital photographs. This week […]
Frontline Salute: Abbots Barton V.A.D. Hospital
I’m continuing my tribute to those battling COVID-19 in our hospitals, nursing homes and as first responders by digging through my archives of First World War photographs. This week I”m […]
A Salute to those on the Pandemic Front Line
I can’t begin to count the number of books, articles, and correspondence I’ve read over the past ten years in an attempt to gain insight into the lives of those […]
Background on Canada’s Imperial War Service Gratuity
Last week Library and Archives Canada announced digitized copies of Imperial Gratuity records would soon be available through their Personnel Records of the First World War web portal. Paid subscribers […]
Doing Their Bit: Sarah Teesdale
In the second instalment of my “Doing Their Bit” series I’m highlighting the work of Sarah Teesdale, a volunteer researcher at the Alford Manor House Museum in Lincolnshire. Sarah’s passion for history […]
Canadians in the BEF: Imperial War Service Gratuities records
In April of this year Ancestry made available “Canada, Imperial War Service Gratuities, 1919-1921“, a dataset containing 17,702 records on Canadians who served in the B.E.F., British Navy, Royal Air Force and Nursing […]
Who Goes There? A collection with a connection?
Last month a local auction house featured a lot containing a large collection of photographs and some military postcards. Unfortunately I was not the successful bidder however a couple of weeks […]
Royal BC Museum invites you to help Transcribe WW1 Docs
In April the Royal BC Museum launched Transcribe, a crowd-sourcing website that provides citizen historians with an opportunity to transcribe historical documents from the Provincial Archives. The museum’s first transcription project […]
Who Goes There? A Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse
I would like to think that this photo is of Ethel Styles, a Voluntary Aid Detachment (V.A.D) nurse that I’ve been researching for several months. The postcard isn’t named however it came […]
Doing Our Bit 