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by BFBSM
Tue May 15, 2018 12:22 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Digitization of the Canadian Expeditionary Force Personnel Service Files
Replies: 6
Views: 25659

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...
by BFBSM
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.
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.
That is a generous offer, and I think it may well be taken up.
by BFBSM
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.
by BFBSM
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...
by BFBSM
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...
by BFBSM
Fri May 04, 2018 1:21 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Frank Hurley: The Mad Photographer of World War I
Replies: 2
Views: 5388

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...
by BFBSM
Fri May 04, 2018 12:05 pm
Forum: Soldier Research
Topic: Canadian War Museum acquires the Currie Victoria Cross
Replies: 0
Views: 3289

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/...
by BFBSM
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...
by BFBSM
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?
by BFBSM
Fri Apr 27, 2018 12:37 pm
Forum: Battles
Topic: Hill 10 and the Caribou Trail
Replies: 0
Views: 15164

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 ...