I'm a grand daughter of a II Canadian Corps, RCE "Pioneer" sapper, with the 30th Field Coy (who made it home). A number of years ago, @Temujin memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=48&si ... a075eb8dc8 helped me find my Gramp's obit and grave marker, to request his service record, which I did and received from Library and Archives of Canada once the 20 year mark hit when he passed away (though admittedly I forgot about it for a while due to life chaos).
I'm trying to pinpoint where he was when he wrote a letter to his sister about walking through either a transit or concentration camp (he called it the latter and referenced how some "patients" at the camp told him over 20k people were killed there in a year). Now that I have the records, and the War Diaries, I'm trying to make sense of the dates, and location names. One day I'd like to stand (roughly) where he stood around the time he wrote it (which is obviously going to require a trip to Europe). What a great and tremendous weight that man bore on his very wide shoulders (at the time) and came home and barely spoke of it. None of my family members are yet aware that I have his records, as I'm doing my best to fill in dates and term translations, and summarize (with the help of AI) his journey before I send it to the rest of the family.
I've only got photos of the letter (I'm unsure which family member has possession, or if it's already been donated to a War Museum--which in my opinion is where it should rightly be). Until I'm able to track down who has it, or where it is, and where it was (roughly) written, I'm not posting it anywhere quite yet. @Temujin, if you're around, I'm unable do DM you due to my account status, so I'll increase my post count and hopefully that'll let me send you a copy in case you'd be interested in helping research where it might have been written, which camp etc (if so, many thanks in advance)!
