Link: Canadian Armed Force Links - WW1 WW2 & more

[J.J.]

 
2005 was the Year of the Veteran...I made this header in honour of the occasion, fashioned from the plaster frame on parent's ww2 service photos.
For those of you who may not have these yet, here are some sites to help with your ancestors in the Canadian forces...Please note that new databases are constantly added to each reply
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- Returning WWI Soldiers - Passenger Lists - read this topic!!!  http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,192163.0.html
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- CEF signups / WW1 - attestation papers 
After you have found information on your ancestor - see link; How to consult a file on-site or order a copy of the complete file  This can be anywhere up to hundreds of pages.( No battle history, though)

- War Diaries of the First World War

- Soldiers of the  South African War (1899 - 1902)

- For war dead newly compiled databases see reply #3
- For Merchant marine see reply #24

- Gazettes London-gazette, Edinburgh-gazette, Belfast-gazette

- Victoria Cross awards

- Check out this site for some help... How to search for your military information

The Canadian Military Heritage Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~canmil/

[J.J.]

Soldiers of the Boer War - 1899- 1902
http://www.genealogy.gc.ca/06/060402_e.html

The Military History Society of Manitoba
http://www.gatewest.net/%7Egcros

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6th Brigade Canadian Machine Gun Company &
2nd Battalion Canadian Machine Gun Corps - Personell Database
extracted from attestaion papers
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brett/cmgc/cmgc_dbase.html

includes war diaries, some corresponcence and honour roll

[J.J.]

Canadian aircrew remembered
http://www.bombercrew.com/main.htm

Honouring Canadian Bomber command
http://www.lancastermuseum.ca/

"Canadian Military sites of Interest"

WW1- Aces of Canada:
http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/canada/index.php

Aces of Canada - WW1-WW2-Korea
http://www.constable.ca/

Not databases, but very interesting!
Canadian & British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
http://www.forces.ca/hr/dhh/downloads/Official_Histories/Aerodrome_e.PDF
http://www.airmuseum.ca/
http://www.bombercrew.com/BCATP.htm

[J.J.]

An important WW1 resource, hopefully by 1014...Red Cross information deal regarding:
capture, death, or burial of servicemen from over 30 nations
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1161810/Unknown-longer-thousands-WW1-dead-identified.html

Book of Remembrance
South African War (1899-1902) Nile Expedition (1884-1885).
http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/collections/books/history
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Court martials WW1
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/courts-martial/001006-100.01-e.php

Book of Remembrance ww1
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collections/books/bww1
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WW2 Service Files: Canadian Armed Forces War Dead
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/war-dead/index-e.html

Book of Remembrance ww2
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collections/books/bww2
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Book of Remembrance Korean war 1950-1953
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collections/books/bkorea
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Canadians who lost their lives in any conflict:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collections/virtualmem

Commonwealth  War  Graves  Commission
http://www.cwgc.org

Lest We Forget - Thanks for our Freedom- and Bless them all

[Janice M]

Here are some that I have found quite interesting.

McGill University – WW 2   
http://www.archives.mcgill.ca/public/exhibits/mcgillremembers/search.htm

The Canadian War Museum
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/cwme.asp

Collections Canada “Lest We Forget” project Cenotaph Research
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/cenotaph/index-e.html

The Memory Project
The Memory Project – Digital Archive
http://www.thememoryproject.com/digital-archive

Jack Turner’s War – WW1
http://atlanticportal.hil.unb.ca/directory/jack-turners-war

War Amps – Canada’s Military Heritage
http://www.waramps.ca/history.html

Canadian Genealogy & History Links – Military
http://web.archive.org/web/20051124194933/http://www.islandnet.com/~jveinot/cghl/military.html

[J.J.]

Canadian Forces Ranking Order

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Air_Force

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Army

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Navy

Scroll down to see the ranking order, then if you click on the link,
it gives you lots of details and the corresponding stripes.   J.J.

[Caroline_d]

another site to add for research:

http://www.wartimememories.co.uk/main.html

[J.J.]

Thanks caroline...!!!

I'll use this reply to add :

New Resource
This will help for those whose ancestors had a brief military stint in Nova Scotia
Just found this so thought I'd add it to the top of this existing posting!
Annual Returns of British Regiments stationed in Nova Scotia, 1807 - 1865
www.rootsweb.com/~canns/ns-armylist.doc

 
Soldiers of the Boer War - 1899- 1902
http://www.genealogy.gc.ca/06/060402_e.html

The Military History Society of Manitoba
http://www.mhsm.ca/Joomla
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Allied Warships - The Royal Canadian Navy- Searchable index
http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/listing.html?navy=HMCS

[casalguidi]

WW1 Court Martials

WW1 War Diaries

South African Boer War (1899-1902) Soldiers

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/genealogy