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by Temujin
Wed Dec 11, 2024 5:40 pm
Forum: Soldier Research
Topic: More help with Uncle's file please
Replies: 12
Views: 1869

Re: More help with Uncle's file please

Good luck in your research
by Temujin
Tue Dec 10, 2024 5:51 pm
Forum: Soldier Research
Topic: More help with Uncle's file please
Replies: 12
Views: 1869

Re: More help with Uncle's file please

I'm back. A recap, my uncle was wounded on August 15, 1945, while on Operation Totalize with 4th Canadian Armoured Division. The was diary for his unit stated they were at MR 173458. I understand this a grid reference. 173 refers to the east-west coordinate (easting). 458 refers to the north-south ...
by Temujin
Thu Dec 05, 2024 9:06 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: How to read a map
Replies: 4
Views: 260

Re: How to read a map

Last INFORMATION post I’ll do for you……..you’ve probably had enough of my babbling. During any major operation, the Military has, what they called DEFENCE OVERPRINTS made. The Royal Canadian Engnieers has a UNIT that specifically made maps……in the field (in special trucks)……and they would take “norm...
by Temujin
Thu Dec 05, 2024 12:19 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: How to read a map
Replies: 4
Views: 260

Re: How to read a map

THIS SOURCE TEACH’S YOU (BETTER THAN ME) HOW TO READ OR MAKE A 4 AND 6 FIGURE MAP REFERENCE.

Just follow the instructions and it’s simple guide you thru the process (much better than I explained)

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/8b ... adacdd2dc3
by Temujin
Wed Dec 04, 2024 11:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: How to read a map
Replies: 4
Views: 260

Re: How to read a map

Pierre, I found the map you were referencing, Sheet 49 at 1:50,000 . The MAPS name is FRANCE and BELGIUM………BOULOGNE I’ve copied the same 3 screen shots and placed a RED SQUARE around GRID SQUARE 79 53 on all three screen shots of the maps below and you can see their are the “same location” on both t...
by Temujin
Wed Dec 04, 2024 3:35 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: How to read a map
Replies: 4
Views: 260

Re: How to read a map

Hello, I would like to read a map from geographical point designated in a war diary to a map, Can someone please explain me how can I do that ? For example: BELLEBRUNE FRANCE, MR 793535 -- This number is the data I would like to know 1/50 000 SHEET N°49 Thanks a lot for your help ! See you soon. Pi...
by Temujin
Mon Dec 02, 2024 7:45 pm
Forum: Soldier Research
Topic: Help with Uncles Service Records
Replies: 4
Views: 351

Re: Help with Uncles Service Records

Did a little digging, and I was “incorrect” in my assumption in my first post to you. The “Interim Force” was a name given and used during the re-organization of the Canadian Army after WW2. So this tells me he was accepted to remain in the Canadian Army “Interim Force” in Canada. The name was fina...
by Temujin
Mon Dec 02, 2024 7:39 pm
Forum: Soldier Research
Topic: Help with Uncles Service Records
Replies: 4
Views: 351

Re: Help with Uncles Service Records

Did a little digging, and I was “incorrect” in my assumption in my first post to you. The “Interim Force” was a name given and used during the re-organization of the Canadian Army after WW2. So this tells me he was accepted to remain in the Canadian Army “Interim Force” in Canada. The name was final...
by Temujin
Mon Dec 02, 2024 7:32 pm
Forum: Soldier Research
Topic: Help with Uncles Service Records
Replies: 4
Views: 351

Re: Help with Uncles Service Records

Welcome to our website…..you have his records, it may help me decipher if I could see the info before and after what you posted. I’ve done research on hundreds of Canadian soldiers, sailors and airmen, and I have not seen this before in a service record…… I “think” it means that he may have been acc...
by Temujin
Tue Nov 26, 2024 12:29 am
Forum: Ancestry
Topic: Darwin Miller, Calgary Highlanders
Replies: 5
Views: 14917

Re: Darwin Miller, Calgary Highlanders

Found new information on my uncles Darwin and Merlin…….they both arrived home on the same ship, SS Isle de France, arrival Halifax on 14 May 1946. Both Uncles served in the Calgary Highlanders
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