Battlefield News | Battlefields.ca https://battlefields.ca Canadian First and Second World War Battlefield Tours, Books and TV Series Documentaries Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:05:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 Some Canadian and Australian comparative stats https://battlefields.ca/some-canadian-and-australian-comparative-stats/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:05:20 +0000 https://battlefields.ca/?p=23705 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...

The post Some Canadian and Australian comparative stats first appeared on Battlefields.ca.]]> Two brothers buried in the same grave https://battlefields.ca/two-brothers-buried-in-the-same-grave/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:03:38 +0000 https://battlefields.ca/?p=23702 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 &...

The post Two brothers buried in the same grave first appeared on Battlefields.ca.]]> Information and documents unique to the CWGC https://battlefields.ca/information-and-documents-unique-to-the-cwgc/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:02:13 +0000 https://battlefields.ca/?p=23699 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...

The post Information and documents unique to the CWGC first appeared on Battlefields.ca.]]> CEF soldier identified 25 years later https://battlefields.ca/cef-soldier-identified-25-years-later/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:59:43 +0000 https://battlefields.ca/?p=23687 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...

The post CEF soldier identified 25 years later first appeared on Battlefields.ca.]]> MY STRANGEST IDENTIFICATION https://battlefields.ca/my-strangest-identification/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:44:12 +0000 https://battlefields.ca/?p=23618 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...

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