WW1 Canadian Regimental Histories
Here you will find a list of digitized regimental histories, booklets and souvenir albums of Canadian units that served during the First World War. They are ordered numerically by unit number with unnumbered unit publications listed alphabetically at the end.
The University of Calgary and The Military Museums of Calgary have created an excellent resource providing free access to a large number of digitized Canadian unit histories. In addition I’ve included links to free digitized histories published on the Internet Archive, Library and Archives Canada and the British Library. Please note that the LAC links are to PDF documents, some of which are in excess of 50Mb each. Unless otherwise indicated the links below are to histories at the University of Calgary.
- 1st Canadian Division in the battles of 1918, The (1919)
- With the First Canadian Contingent (1915)
- History of No.1 general hospital Canadian Expeditionary Force (1938, British Library)
- 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles (British Columbia Horse) in France and Flanders (1932)
- Extracts from the war diary and official records of the Second Canadian Divisional Ammunition Column (1921, Internet Archive)
- Short Memoirs of the Third Canadian Divisional Mechanical Transport Company (1919)
- Records of the Fourth Canadian Infantry Battalion in the great war, 1914-1918 (1924, Internet Archive)
- 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles, 1914-1919, The (1926)
- Number 4 Canadian Hospital : the letters of Professor J.J. Mackenzie from the Salonika front (1933)
- Fourth Canadian Infantry Brigade; history of operations, April, 1915, to demobilization (1919, Internet Archive)
- Stretcher-bearers– at the double! : history of the Fifth Canadian Field Ambulance which served overseas during the Great War of 1914-1918 (1937)
- Winnipeg Rifles, 8th Battalion, C.E.F. allied with the Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own) : fiftieth anniversary, 1883-1933, The (1933)
- 8th Canadian Field Ambulance photograph album (1919)
- Historical records of no. 8 Canadian Field Ambulance: Canada, England, France, Belgium, 1915-1919 (1920, Internet Archive)
- 9th Mississauga Horse and its contribution to the CEF – 2nd, 4th CMR, 75th, 124th, 170th, 216th (1917, Library and Archives Canada, 40Mb PDF)
- The Story of the Tenth Canadian Battalion, 1914-1917 (1918?, Internet Archive)
- Diary of the Eleventh Canadian Field Ambulance (1919)
- 13th Battalion Royal Highlanders of Canada, 1914-1919, The (1925)
- Royal Montreal Regiment, 14th Battalion, C.E.F., 1914-1925, The (1927)
- Red Watch: with the First Canadian Division in Flanders, The (48th/15th Battalion, 1916)
- History of the the 16th Battalion (the Canadian Scottish) Canadian Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 1914-1919, The (1932)
- History of the Twentieth Canadian Battalion (Central Ontario Regiment) : Canadian Expeditionary Force, in the Great War, 1914-1918, The (1935)
- Histoire du 22e bataillon canadien-francias. Tome 1, 1914-1919 (1952, en Francais)
- Programme souvenir, publié a l’occasion du retour d’outre-mer du 22eme Bataillon (1919, Internet Archive)
- Twenty-third Battery Field Artillery Active Service (1915, Library and Archives Canada, 25 Mb PDF)
- 24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles) Illustrated Souvenir Booklet 1914-1915 (1915, Library and Archives Canada, 23Mb PDF)
- The story of the Twenty-eighth (Northwest) Battalion, 1914-1917 (1917, Internet Archive)
- 42nd Battalion C.E.F. Royal Highlanders of Canada, The (1931)
- Battery action! : the story of the 43rd Battery, C.F.A (1920?, Internet Archive)
- Six Thousand Canadian Men: Being the History of the 44th Battalion Canadian Infantry 1914-1919 (1932, Library and Archives Canada, 119 Mb PDF)
- 47th (BC) Battalion photograph album (1915?, Library and Archives Canada, 31Mb PDF)
- The history of the Fifty-fifth Battery, C.F.A. (1919, Internet Archive)
- The 60th C.F.A. Battery Book, 1916-1919 (1919, Internet Archive)
- 65th Overseas Battalion Souvenir Edition (1916, Library and Archives Canada, 12Mb PDF)
- Story of the Sixty-Sixth C.F.A. (1919)
- History of the 72nd Canadian Infantry Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders of Canada (1920)
- Historical record of the 76th Overseas Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1915-1916 (192?, Internet Archive)
- 77th Overseas Battalion (1916, British Library)
- 78th Overseas Battalion (Winnipeg Grenadiers) (1916, Library and Archives Canada, 26Mb PDF)
- The Eighty-fifth in France and Flanders (1920, Internet Archive)
- Canadian Grenadier Guards Overseas Battalion “Eighty-Seventh” (1916, Library and Archives Canada, 67Mb PDF)
- 101st Overseas Battalion, Winnipeg Light Infantry (1916, Library and Archives Canada, 54Mb PDF)
- From B.C. to Baisieux; being the narrative history of the 102nd Canadian Infantry Battalion (1919, Internet Archive)
- 106th Overseas Battalion (The Nova Scotia Rifles) (1916, Library and Archives Canada, 57Mb PDF)
- Short story of the 37th Battalion, Haldimand Rifles, and of the 114th Battalion, Canadian Edpeditionary Force, for overseas service, in the first Great War
- The 116th Battalion in France (1921, Internet Archive)
- Military Vaudeville by 144th Overseas Battalion – 3rd Battalion, 90th Winnipeg Rifles (1916, Library and Archives Canada, 52Mb PDF)
- Cape Breton Highlanders 185th Overseas Battalion (1916, Library and Archives Canada, 57Mb PDF)
- Canada to Ireland 199th Overseas Battalion The Visit of the “Duchess of Connaught’s Own” (1917, Library and Archives Canada, 30Mb PDF)
- From Camp to Hammock 241st Battalion (1917, Library and Archives Canada, 51Mb PDF)
- C.A.M.C. with the Canadian Corps during the last hundred days of the Great War (1924)
- Canadian “Emma Gees” : a history of the Canadian machine gun corps, The (1938)
- Irish-Canadian Rangers, The (1916, Internet Archive)
- Le Livre d’Or des Canadiens – 14th, 22nd, 41st, 57th, 69th, 150th, 163rd, 167th, 178th, 206th, 233rd Battalions (1916, Library and Archives Canada 87Mb PDF)
- Nova Scotia’s Part in the Great War (1920)
- Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, Volume 1 (1923, Internet Archive)
- Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, Volume 2 (1923, Internet Archive)
- Royal Canadian Regiment, 1883-1933, The (1936)
Hello. Three of my ancestors attested to the 154th Battalion (Eastern Ontario) and were transferred to in the 21st Battalion. In your research have you come across any information on those Battalions?
Hi Heather … there are several good sources online. The 21st is one of the few battalions whose War Diary has been transcribed (not just digitized) and you can view it here: https://archive.org/details/21stInfantryBattalionWarDiary1915-1919. You’ll also find an excellent website dedicated to the battalion located here: http://21stbattalion.ca. Cheers, Steve.
Interesting story on the 37th Regimant Co.1 Haldimand Rifles of York Village. A note of the drill sheds, one was built in the Village of York according to the 1879 map. Their headquarters was the Enniskillen building that still stands today on Hwy 54 in the Village of York, Seneca Township, Haldimand County. I am researching Renshaws, Martindales and Taggarts.
Hi Taylor, thanks very much for your comments. If you end up posting or publishing information on the 37th Regiment please let me know and perhaps I can link to it. Thanks again, Steve.