Slightly OT, but WWI unit War Diaries are Online.

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http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/02015202_e.html

A worthy site to look at, you can search WWI war diaries from the various units invovled in the war.

The search engine is a little bit....picky....but I managed to pull up war diaries from my Great Grand-Uncle's regiment from Vimy, and from Hill 70, where he was killed.

A very interesting read, and there's also lots of battlefield maps and such included in some of them!

And, on a milsurp note, it mentions the typical Small Arms Ammo loadout required for unit going on the attack!

NavyShooter
 
Great link.... :)

Thanks for posting...

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RobSmith said:
Wow ... The National Archives have <finally> started to put up some of this material online for all to see ... Simply amazing.
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Actually, these have been online for a long time now. There is other stuff like attestation papers as well.

With the Great War they waited for 80 years. It will probably be the same for WW2.

Cam
 
It's nice to have it accessible by 'net, but Cam's right-all this stuff has been available for a while. If you had a relation in the service at the time, it is a highly rewarding passtime to chase down their info! Thanks for the link!
 
ollie said:
It's nice to have it accessible by 'net, but Cam's right-all this stuff has been available for a while. If you had a relation in the service at the time, it is a highly rewarding passtime to chase down their info! Thanks for the link!
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That's one thing I've been researching for awhile, while I have about a dozen family members with confirmed service during WW2, still have to confirm a single one from the Great War. Reading these diaries either a few days before, or during major battles is quite immersive ...
 
RobSmith said:
That's one thing I've been researching for awhile, while I have about a dozen family members with confirmed service during WW2, still have to confirm a single one from the Great War. Reading these diaries either a few days before, or during major battles is quite immersive ...
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I don't know if you know the process but for WW2 service records, the member has to claim them himself or a familey member. However for a family member to do it, they must have been deceased for 20 years in order to obtain the full record. They will only give out partials unless the appropriate time has passed.

Cam
 
Thank you for the link. :cheers: I've been wanting to try and get some more info on my Great Grandfather's activities in the War. Im going to get all the various documentations from my grandmother this easter Sunday and hopefully i'll be able to find something. Best Easter Hunt I've had in a while ;) Thanks.
 
Cam_S said:
I don't know if you know the process but for WW2 service records, the member has to claim them himself or a familey member. However for a family member to do it, they must have been deceased for 20 years in order to obtain the full record. They will only give out partials unless the appropriate time has passed.

Cam
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I am familiar with the process ... I will be asking for my grandfather's records this year as he died in 1987, should be quite interesting as he deserted. Will also be asking for his brother's records but I only have a name, no service number or regiment, so that will be more difficult (I do know that he was wounded and that was the reason that grandpa deserted, great-grandma needed one of her sons to be healthy to tend to the farm, and grandpa like a good son always listened to his mother). I will also be bringing back my father's uncle's belongings from the U.S. (uniform, regimental album and possibly some other stuff) at some point hopefully this year (he was a Canadian soldier in ww2), my father's cousin Connie, his only child, is childless and wants this stuff to stay within the family so an old soldier will finally be coming home (been working on that for about 5 years now). I've been researching the proper, ethical (and legal) way to proceed for some time now and I think I will simply buy a large period-correct Canadian flag and drape the whole lot with it int he back of my car on the way home, maybe this is over-doing it but I take this stuff more seriously than most and I <DO> want to know what proper protocol would be for this sort of thing. Just doesn't seem right that Roland's stuff would be thrown int he back of my car and simpyl driven home without some sort of fanfare...
 
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