military

[maggipsych]

is there a free website for researching army personnel in Canada

[dundurn]

How far back are you looking and what info do you already have on the person/ people in whom you're iinterested - name?, army number?

[know-ledge]

lol

[maggipsych]

Hello againI am trying to find my grandfather's army number. He was in the Great War - fighting in France. He was injured and sent to recuperate in the hospital that my grandmother worked in. This was 1918-1919.
I did find his family and home address, I have contact with aunts and cousins, but for me to prove who I am, I have to prove who my mother is, and i cannot find the original piece of paper with the army number on. I have contacted the locsal army museum in Oromocto but only very recently. I have been given a number which has ten digits - but don't know if this is army number or indian status number!

[kempie]

Have you searched the Canadian Great War Project?

http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/index.a sp

[kempie]

...or the Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group?

http://www.cefresearch.com/

[maggipsych]

Thank you for the responses, I have now bookmarked CEF, and the Canadian Great War Project, and am in the process of going through these. My difficulty has been that my grandfather was a first nations member, but he, with three of his brothers joined up, I believe that they were in one of the two First Nations regiments until they got to Europe and then they were divided up. But I have his DOB, his full name, home address, and his parents names,. so I am sure that I will pin down these records at some point. Many thanks for all answers, they have helped me a great deal!!!

[dundurn]

Web addresses above should prove useful. If you find your grandfather's unit, the war diaries section will allow you to look at the actual day to day activities of his regiment.

You can also try the folowing link - http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/c ef/001042-100.01-e.php it's part of the Library of Canada.

If you put in your grandfather's surname and forename(s) it will give you the army numbers for matching records. Once you've tracked down the right entry you can see copies of his attestation papers. You can also order (at a cost) photocopies of his army file from Ottawa. Good hunting. We researched my grandfather's brother this way. He was killed on the Somme in 1916.