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Help Needed
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?
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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!
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Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam - I have a catapult. Give me all your money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head. |
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11th (Saskatchewan) Bn. CEF
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Maybe I'm not so daft after all then. I had it as far as 11th Bn, Infantry, CEF.
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Many thanks indeed, you've just made my wife a very happy person!
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Thanks very much to everyone for the help.
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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
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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.
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Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam - I have a catapult. Give me all your money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head. |
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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
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Thanks for these links, we'll have a good look through them now. He actually survived the war and settled in Newport, south Wales. |
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