This page provides links to digitized soldier memoirs, honour rolls and lists relating to Canadians that served during the First World War.  They are ordered alphabetically by title.

The majority of links below point to resources on the Internet Archive or on the Canadian Military History website created by the University of Calgary and The Military Museums of Calgary. In addition I’ve included links to resources on Project Gutenberg, Early Canadiana Online and at Library and Archives Canada. Please note that the LAC links are to PDF documents which can sometimes exceed 50Mb.

Soldier Memoirs

• A Sunny Subaltern; Billy’s letters from Flanders by Gray, Billy (1916, Internet Archive)
• Canada in War Paint by Bell, Ralph W (1917, Internet Archive)
• Canadian front in France and Flanders, The (1920)
• Canadian Scottish (16th Battalion): Stray Papers by a Private by J.F. Cadenhead (1915, Library and Archives Canada 51Mb PDF)
• Carry On : Letters in War-time by Dawson, Coningsby (1917, Internet Archive)
• Clare Gass Diary by Gass, Clare (Internet Archive)
• “Crumps”; the Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went by Keene, Louis (1917, Internet Archive)
• First Canadians in France ; the Chronicle of a Military Hospital in the War Zone, The by Bell, Frederick McKelvey (1917, Internet Archive)
• Five strenuous years : the McGill chapter of Alpha Delta Phi during the Great War (1920)
• France & Flanders : Four Years Experience Told in Poem & Story by Brindle, Sapper W (1919, Internet Archive)
• From Montreal to Vimy Ridge and Beyond; the Correspondence of Lieut. Clifford Almon Wells (1917, Internet Archive)
• From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian Brigade by Curry, Frederic C (1916, Internet Archive)
• Glory of the Trenches : an Interpretation, The by Dawson, Coningsby (1918)
• Great War As I Saw It, The by Canon Frederick G. Scott (1922, Internet Archive)
• Holding the Line by Sergeant Harold Baldwin (1918)
• Impressions of War by Carrel, Frank (1919, Internet Archive)
• Kaiser’s guest, The by Private Frank McDonald, 1st CMR (1918)
• Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer by Ray, Anna Chapin (1918, Internet Archive)
• Mainly for Mother by Norris, Armine (1920?, Internet Archive)
• Maple Leaf Men and Other War Gleanings by Sharland, Rose E (1916, Internet Archive)
• Maple Leaves in Flanders Fields by Rae, Herbert (1916, Internet Archive)
• Mopping up! by Lieut. Jack Monroe (1918)
• More Letters From Billy by Gray, Billy (1917, Internet Archive)
• My diary of the Great War; being a current history of the world’s greatest struggle by Plewman, W. R. (1918, Internet Archive)
• Next of Kin: Those Who Wait and Wonder by Nellie L. McClung (1917, Internet Archive)
• On the Fringe of the Great Fight by Nasmith, George Gallie (1917, Internet Archive)
• On the Roll of Honour – G.L.B. Mackenzie, Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, Toronto Regiment, 1st Division, CEF (1917, Internet Archive)
• On Three Battle Fronts by Howard, Frederick Thomas Rowland (1918, Internet Archive)
• Only This : a War Retrospect (1927)
• Our Bit : Memories of War Service by A Canadian Nursing Sister (1934)
• Our Heroes in the Great World War : giving facts and details of Canada’s part in the greatest war in history (1919)
• Out of the Jaws of Hunland; the stories of Corporal Fred McMullen, sniper, Private Jack Evans, bomber, Canadian soldiers, three times captured and finally escaped from German prison camps by McMullen, Fred & Evans, Jack (1918, Internet Archive)
• Over the Canadian Battlefields by John W. Dafoe (1919, Internet Archive)
• Over the Top with the 25th; Chronicle of Events at Vimy Ridge and Courcellette by Lewis, R (1918, Internet Archive)
• Pen Pictures from the Trenches by Rutledge, Stanley A. (1918, Internet Archive)
• Piper in Peace and War, The (1927)
• Private Peat by Harold R. Peat (1917)
• Red Chevron. Number One, 1914 (1934)
• Scouting Thrills by McKean, George Burdon (1919, Internet Archive)
• Souvenirs et Impressions de ma vie de Soldat : (1916-1919), 22ème Bataillon (1917-1918) by Lapointe, A. J. (1919, Internet Archive)
• Surgeon in Arms, A (1918)
• Thirteen Years After by Will R Bird (1932)
• Three Times and Out, told by Private Simmons by Simmons, Mervin C (1918, Internet Archive)
• Three Years a Prisoner in Germany by Thorn, J. C. (1919, Internet Archive)
• Thrilling stories of the Great War on land and sea, under the water, in the air : with vivid descriptions by eyewitnesses on the firing line (1915)
• Through St. Dunstan’s to Light by Rawlinson, James H (1919, Internet Archive)
• Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition by Gallishaw, John (1916, Project Gutenberg)

Soldier Memoirs on Canadian Letters & Images  (Soldier summary | Memoir | Unit)

• Beckton, Herbert Stanier | Memoir | 30th Battalion, 16th Battalion
• Bracewell, Maurice Wilfred | Memoir | 121st Battalion, 102nd Battalion
• Combe, Robert G. V.C. | Memoir (June 27, 1917) | 27th Battalion
• Draycott, Walter MacKay Langdale | Memoir | PPCLI, Canadian Forestry Corps.
• Foster, Kenneth Walter | Memoir | 62nd Battalion, 2nd Battalion
• Gauthier, William Vincent | Memoir | 98th, 97th, 165th and 5th Siege Batteries
• Green, Victor Arthur DCM | Memoir | 88th Battalion, 30th Battalion, 7th Battalion
• Ives, Raymond Ellsworth | Memoir (1916) | 48th Battery, 81st Battery Canadian Field Artillery
• Lovell, Hubert William (Bert) | Memoir (1931) | 8th Canadian Field Ambulance
• Paul, Robert Rollo | Memoir | 28th Battalion
• Richards, Ralph | Memoir | Royal Canadian Regiment
• Savage, Charles Henry | Memoir (1936) | 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles
• Sudbury, John P | Memoir (1958), Memoir (1963) | 9th Canadian Machine Gun Company
• Teer, Arthur George | Memoir | 29th Battery, 21st Battery Canadian Field Artillery
• Note: follow this link for an up-to-date list of all the memoirs on their website

Honour Rolls and Lists

• The Gold Stripe: a tribute to the British Columbia Men who have been killed, crippled and wounded in the Great War (1918, Early Canadiana Online)
• The Gold Stripe Volume 2: a tribute to the British Columbia Men who have been killed, crippled and wounded in the Great War (1919, Early Canadiana Online)
• The Gold Stripe Volume 3: a tribute to the British Columbia Men who have been killed, crippled and wounded in the Great War (1919, Internet Archive)
• Letters from the front : being a record of the part played by officers of the bank in the Great War, 1914-1919. Vol. 1 (1920)
• Letters from the front : being a record of the part played by officers of the bank in the Great War, 1914-1919. Vol. 2 (1920)
• List of Officers and Men Serving in the First Canadian Contingent of the B.E.F. 1914 (1915?)
• McGill University at war : 1914-1918, 1939-1945 (1947)
• Officers Who Served Overseas in the Great War with the Canadian Artillery 1914-1919 by The Canadian Artillery Association (1922, Internet Archive)
• Quarterly Militia list of the Dominion of Canada : corrected to 30th June, 1914, The (1914)
• Roll of honour, British Columbia Land Surveyors, the Great War, 1914-1918 (1920)
• Trinity War Book; a recital of service and sacrifice in the Great War by Hezzelwood, Oliver (1921, Internet Archive)