Military Research Articles
I launched this blog over five years ago and in that time I’ve posted nearly 300 articles on a variety of topics, including many that focus on researching a soldier, […]
Digitized Canadian Trench Newspapers: Part 3 of 3
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 […]
Digitized Canadian Trench Newspapers: Part 2 of 3
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) […]
Digitized Canadian Trench Newspapers: Part 1 of 3
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 […]
Dugout fire claims the life of L/Cpl Josiah Cleator, C.E.
The Western Front was no stranger to the macabre but surely the fate of Lance-Corporal Josiah Cleator was particularly cruel. Creature comforts were in short-supply in the trenches and soldiers often […]
Two Seminars at the Saanich Centennial Library: Nov. 2 & 23
If you’d like to learn more about researching Canadian soldiers of the First World War and if you live in the Greater Victoria area you may be interested in two seminars I’m […]
Trench Journals at LAC: The Canadian Machine Gunner
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 […]
New Research Resource: The Maclean’s Archive Goes Online
First World War Researchers take note: over 1300 issues of Maclean’s magazines are now online in the brand new Maclean’s Archive. The issues from 1914 through 1918 feature an interesting […]
The Long and Winding Road
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 […]
Improvements to Viewing Canadian War Diaries at LAC
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 […]
Doing Our Bit 