116,638 names tagged in first week!
Originally posted on Operation War Diary:
We have gathered together the statistics for the first week of Operation War Diary – Tues 14th Jan – Mon 20 Jan. Citizen Historians…
Originally posted on Operation War Diary:
We have gathered together the statistics for the first week of Operation War Diary – Tues 14th Jan – Mon 20 Jan. Citizen Historians…
Vol. 1 No. 9 of “Bristol & the War”, the third issue which I’ve scanned and uploaded to Flickr, features a great cover photo of a snowman in Essex named […]
On December 11th I published a blog article describing a Red Cross flag that belonged to the 3rd Field Ambulance of the Australian Imperial Force. New information has come to […]
I’ve received positive feedback from yesterday’s blog post and so I’ve added a Flickr set that includes the Nov. 14, 1914 issue of Bristol & the War. Vol. 1 No. […]
Last year I purchased ten issues of an interesting journal called Bristol and the War. It was originally issued fortnightly for a penny however by the autumn of 1915 it had […]
Note: this article has been replaced by an updated Nominal Rolls of the Canadian Expeditionary Force post. A Nominal Roll is a list of the Officers, NCOs and Men who served in a unit of the CEF at a specific point in time. They were often compiled prior to a […]
Regimental Histories and War Diaries are a wonderful resource when researching a soldier of the First World War. When used in conjunction with a soldier’s Service Record they provide a wealth of valuable background material that can be used to reconstruct the movements and experiences of your soldier. Unfortunately Regimental Histories are hard […]
The artist of this wonderful pen and ink Christmas card is Rupert Henry Vaughan. Vaughan, a civil engineer, emigrated from England in 1908 and worked in Nelson, British Columbia before settling on Vancouver Island. He worked in the surveying department for the E&N Railway before joining the 1st Pioneer Battalion […]
I’ve updated my WW1 Canadian War Diaries page to include diaries for both the 9th Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops (pdf, 99mb) and 1st Pioneer Battalion (pdf, 71mb). The 1st Pioneer Battalion was formed in Victoria, BC in July 1915 and recruited “good husky chaps” from BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba “who […]
Could this be an important piece of Australian WW1 history, and if so what is it doing in Victoria … Victoria, British Columbia that is? I’m hoping readers from Australia […]