Help Needed

[John Barrett]

My wife is trying to research her Grand Father in WW1. She knows that he was in a Canadian Regiment from the attached photo but cannot establish which one. I wondered if anyone would be able to identify the cap badge and let me know the name of the regiment if possible?

[Hussar100]

I just had a go at that for you mate on the basis that Canadian badges were easy. I've just learned a lesson - they're not!

[DavidS]

11th (Saskatchewan) Bn. CEF

[Hussar100]

Originally Posted by DavidS

11th (Saskatchewan) Bn. CEF

Maybe I'm not so daft after all then. I had it as far as 11th Bn, Infantry, CEF.

[John Barrett]

Many thanks indeed, you've just made my wife a very happy person!

[John Barrett]

Thanks very much to everyone for the help.

[DavidS]

Originally Posted by John Barrett

Thanks very much to everyone for the help.

Don't know how carried away you want to get on your research, but here's a brief precis on the 11th Bn: http://cefresearch.ca/matrix/Utiliti...erves/11th.htm

[John Barrett]

Originally Posted by DavidS

Don't know how carried away you want to get on your research, but here's a brief precis on the 11th Bn: http://cefresearch.ca/matrix/Utiliti...erves/11th.htm

Many thanks for this. She's researching from scratch really as there's not much information to go on. He wasn't Canadian, he was a Londoner and no-body knows how why he was in Canada.

[Hussar100]

Originally Posted by John Barrett

Many thanks for this. She's researching from scratch really as there's not much information to go on. He wasn't Canadian, he was a Londoner and no-body knows how why he was in Canada.

Probably to search for a better life and to escape poverty, which was why most UK and Irish citizens emigrated to Canada, sometimes on assisted passage.

[DavidS]

Originally Posted by John Barrett

Many thanks for this. She's researching from scratch really as there's not much information to go on. He wasn't Canadian, he was a Londoner and no-body knows how why he was in Canada.

John:

Irregardless, you can access his attestation papers online through Archives & Library Canada, using his name, which will at least give you/your wife his date of enlistment, service no., and a few other bits of info.

Go here: http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discove...es/search.aspx

If he was killed/died in service, you can also track down his graves registration info.

Finally, once you have his service no., you can get his entire service record through National Archives. This is a good summary of sources: http://www.cefresearch.ca/Links.html

[John Barrett]

Originally Posted by DavidS

John:

Irregardless, you can access his attestation papers online through Archives & Library Canada, using his name, which will at least give you/your wife his date of enlistment, service no., and a few other bits of info.

Go here: http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discove...es/search.aspx

If he was killed/died in service, you can also track down his graves registration info.

Finally, once you have his service no., you can get his entire service record through National Archives. This is a good summary of sources: http://www.cefresearch.ca/Links.html

David,

Thanks for these links, we'll have a good look through them now. He actually survived the war and settled in Newport, south Wales.