Canadian WW2 Service Files Part 2: Died (1948-present)
Part 1 of my two-part series on obtaining Canadian Second World War service files dealt with records belonging to those who died in service between 1939 and 1947. Part 2 […]
Part 1 of my two-part series on obtaining Canadian Second World War service files dealt with records belonging to those who died in service between 1939 and 1947. Part 2 […]
*Updated January 21, 2019* Over the past year I’ve received an increasing number of requests for information on Canadians who served during the Second World War. Obtaining their service file […]
Today I’ve added a First World War Canadian Soldier Memoirs page that includes links to books written by soldiers about their experience in the First World War. It also includes […]
Today I’ve completed a major update to my list of Canadian First World War reference books. The result is a brand-new First World War Canadian Regimental Histories page that includes links to […]
This is the final article in my three-part series on digitized Canadian Trench newspapers. In the first post I featured newspapers published by numbered infantry and artillery units while the second focused on […]
This is the second of my three articles on digitized Canadian Trench newspapers. Part 1 featured newspapers or journals published by numbered infantry and artillery units while this article provides links (below) […]
Trench newspapers are an excellent resource for anyone researching an individual or unit from the First World War. I featured the Canadian Machine Gunner in an article last summer and […]
Today’s announcement by Library and Archives Canada caught me by surprise and so I’ve spent the last couple of hours checking out their new Personnel Records of the First World War database. If […]
This is the fourth update to My Estimate of when your CEF Service File will be Digitized article posted in December 2015. Library and Archives Canada posts updates on their blog on the 15th […]
I’ve spent a lot of time recently immersed in trench journals, one of my favourite resources when researching soldiers from the First World War. Library and Archives Canada has a […]