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- Tue May 15, 2018 12:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Digitization of the Canadian Expeditionary Force Personnel Service Files
- Replies: 6
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Update of May 2018
As of today, 592,203 of 640,000 files are available online in our Personnel Records of the First World War database. Please visit the Digitization of the Canadian Expeditionary Force Service Files page for more details on the digitization project. Library and Archives Canada is digitizing the servi...
- Sun May 13, 2018 10:48 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hi all!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 23848
Re: Hi all!
G'day Chris and welcome aboard.
That is a generous offer, and I think it may well be taken up.I semi-regularly visit Library and Archives Canada, so if you would like photographs of a document there send me a line and I might be able to accommodate you.
- Wed May 09, 2018 11:56 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: dakuda from edmonton
- Replies: 4
- Views: 20454
Re: dakuda from edmonton
Welcome, Rory. Looking forward to more.
- Sun May 06, 2018 6:21 pm
- Forum: Battles
- Topic: The Dieppe Raid: Montgomery's Role Reassessed
- Replies: 0
- Views: 7216
The Dieppe Raid: Montgomery's Role Reassessed
Attached is a paper which may be of interest to those of you studying the Dieppe Raid; it is taken from the following publication Perspectives on Warfighting, Number 3, Selected Papers from the 1992 (59th Annual) Meeting of the Society for Military History which was hosted by the Command and Staff C...
- Sat May 05, 2018 6:48 pm
- Forum: War in Afghanistan
- Topic: Corporal Michael Gunter Starker, 15 (Edmonton) Field Ambulance
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3432
Corporal Michael Gunter Starker, 15 (Edmonton) Field Ambulance
In memory of Corporal Michael Gunter Starker, 15 (Edmonton) Field Ambulance killed on May 6, 2008 in Pashmul, Afghanistan after his Civil-Military Co-operation team (CIMIC) patrol came under fire in the Pashmul region of Zhari district, about 25 kilometres outside the city of Kandahar. http://imagiz...
- Fri May 04, 2018 1:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Frank Hurley: The Mad Photographer of World War I
- Replies: 2
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Re: Frank Hurley: The Mad Photographer of World War I
Hurley created some excellent images which showed what the war was. Unfortunately, he caused some animosity diverging from what Charles Bean was seeking, an accurate and undoctored record of the war, Hurley was combining sections of and complete images to portray events. I don’t think this should ma...
- Fri May 04, 2018 12:05 pm
- Forum: Soldier Research
- Topic: Canadian War Museum acquires the Currie Victoria Cross
- Replies: 0
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Canadian War Museum acquires the Currie Victoria Cross
The Canadian War Museum is honoured to announce its acquisition of the Victoria Cross awarded to Saskatchewan native Lieutenant-Colonel David Vivian Currie of the South Alberta Regiment, for his exceptional leadership and bravery in a decisive battle of the Second World War. https://www.newswire.ca/...
- Wed May 02, 2018 6:10 pm
- Forum: War in Afghanistan
- Topic: Petty Officer, 2nd Class Douglas Craig Blake, Fleet Diving Unit (Atlantic)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3395
Petty Officer, 2nd Class Douglas Craig Blake, Fleet Diving Unit (Atlantic)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img923/9440/W5Jg3v.jpg In memory of Petty Officer, 2nd Class Douglas Craig Blake, Fleet Diving Unit (Atlantic), who was killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan on Monday 3 May 2010, the first sailor to die in action since October 2004. http://www.vete...
- Mon Apr 30, 2018 6:37 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 29th Canadian Infantry Battalion, CEF
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6575
Re: 29th Canadian Infantry Battalion, CEF
I don't suppose the images came with a roll?
- Fri Apr 27, 2018 12:37 pm
- Forum: Battles
- Topic: Hill 10 and the Caribou Trail
- Replies: 0
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Hill 10 and the Caribou Trail
The Royal Newfoundland Regiment to be commemorated with caribou monument in Gallipoli which will become the sixth and final monument for the Trail of the Caribou (http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/overseas/first-world-war/france/BeaumontHamel/caribou-trail), tracing the history of ...