On Vimy Day I published an article on Private Thomas Stinson A’Beckett Shearman, a 21-year University of British Columbia graduate who died at Huddersfield’s Royds Hall War Hospital on April 27, 1917 […]
My posts are less frequent these days as I’m currently in Britain indulging my life-long passion for long-distance walking. I am however working on an update to my story about Private Thomas Shearman and […]
I arrived in England at the beginning of last week and headed north to Chester where I would spend the next four days. Much of the first day was spent at the […]
In a matter of days I will stand next to my great-grandfather’s grave in a quiet churchyard on the Wirral. He disappeared in 1920, just months after returning from the […]
While the majority of British Unit war diaries can be found in the National Archives at Kew you may or may not be aware that some are held at Library and Archives […]
If you research Canadian soldiers of the First World War there is a very good chance that you’ve read a news clipping or seen a photograph posted by Marika Pirie who in […]
Bruce MacDonald has a mystery on his hands and he would like your help identifying this soldier from the Canadian Forestry Corps. There is reason to believe that the soldier […]
In January Library and Archives Canada made improvements to their Archives Search and Image Search tools with an eye to enhancing the user experience. These will be of immediate benefit to those […]
The British Colonist Online Edition is a wonderful and free resource for researchers and family historians. I wrote about the website in December 2013, shortly after it was expanded to […]
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 […]
Doing Our Bit 