Volunteers from the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa have created a very helpful database listing 879 Great War soldiers, mostly British and Canadian, who died at No. 1 Canadian […]
In December 2013 I wrote about an Australian First World War Red Cross flag that I was surprised to find for sale in a shop in my hometown of Victoria, British […]
Last month I was contacted by Ian Marshall, the grandson of Private George Duff (#2227) and the great-nephew of Private Robert Duff (#2776). The Duff brothers enlisted with the 7th […]
This is the tenth in a series of articles highlighting photos and ephemera from a scrapbook compiled by Private John Denholm of the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish) during the First World War. The 16th Battalion arrived in […]
Today I’m launching my Military and Family History Research service! It’s the newest addition to Doing Our Bit, a blog that began nearly five years ago as a way for me to share […]
In May 1918 George Fisher wrote a letter to the editor of the Signal newspaper in Goderich Ontario regarding the death of his younger brother Percy in March of that year. […]
Last week I was contacted by Nathan Joy, the great-grandson of Robert McNab Baird, a Signaller in the 7th Royal Scots. Nathan recently inherited a photo album which he has scanned […]
This is the nineth in a series of articles highlighting the experiences of Private John Denholm of the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish) during the First World War. Articles will be published on or near the 100th anniversary […]
While the Government’s Opposition on the inside of the B.C. Legislature described the Throne Speech as “half an hour that none of us will ever get back” I found my […]
These three 1.5″ x 2.5″ photographs are of His Majesty’s Airship No. 9r, Britain’s very first rigid airship. If you click on the image above you can clearly see the […]
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