Keep in mind Canada had 40% more troops Overseas than did the Australian Imperial Force. (Although the AIF had 5 Infantry Divisions and the CEF was only 4.) 1915: Canada 4,923; Australia...
Charles Guy Destrube and Paul Jean Destube, Serre Road Cemetery, IV.C.2. Both were serving with the 22nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers and were killed February 17, 1917. Sons of Ernest &...
In the postwar period the Imperial War Graves Commission undertook the massive job of making the war cemeteries, clearing the battlefields and undertaking a near impossible task of personalizing each...
Twenty-five years after I purchase this oval of an unknown CEF soldier an obscure Youtube video identified his photo. He is 342955 Gunner Harvey Edward Harry Brouse of Kingston, 2nd...
In 1991 I received a tangled trail of documents regarding a Spitfire pilot who crashed at Boulogne in December 1944 and who oddly had no identified grave. It appeared the...
Over one hundred Special Operations F Section agents were killed and they were primarily executed at Concentration Camps, how are they commemorated? Most both Men and Women are named on...
The Jack Kipling identification has been getting a lot of coverage lately. It appears that after only 24 years, the doubters have conceded that the original report from 1992 was,...
YES IT'S TRUE! Believe it or not CEF BOOKS is celebrating it's 20th Anniversary. For those who remember the first Editions in 1996 I am sorry but we are all getting...
On April 9th, 1917, 100,000 Canadians stormed the strongest German position on the Western Front. It was a decisive victory for the Canadians but the price was high with 3600...
The Great War Tour With Norm Christie All 6 Episodes are finished and 4 are currently airing on TVO, Monday nights at 10 pm. Episode 1: Master of War on Arthur...