Links to WW1 Information on the Web

Canadian Web Sites

Central Ontario Locations

• COBWFA - Central Ontario Branch of the Western Front Asociation.
• CSMMI - Canadian Society of Military Medals and Insignia
• Royal Canadian Military Institute - 426 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1S9, email slc@rmci.org, tel. 416.597.0286 - A private club that has a military research library.

Save the Great War Memorial Hall in Waterdown, Ontario, Canada

• Save the Memorial Hall in Waterdown - sign the online petition, it takes two minutes

Other Canadian Locations

• National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials New - This project is to catalog every military-related memorial in Canada -- as of May 2008, about 5,585 Memorials have been recorded and displayed on our web site, including:
  • Major monuments usually found near government buildings
  • Smaller memorials such as plaques, stained glass windows, or certificates in churches, schools, community halls and public buildings.
  In addition, we are recording all the names listed on these memorials to build a database of those courageous souls who lost their lives for the freedom of Canada. Therefore, we require detailed photographs of each memorial, so we can transcribe the names on each memorial and provide a digital database of this information for research and historical purposes.
  If anyone has a few hours to help, please go to our web site, search the existing Memorials, and use the form to send us additional data. For example, the Memorial in Bancroft is missing the street address of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 181.

  Also, Derek Pullen in Milton, Ontario has his own personal Memorial Web Site that is a supplement to the DND web site. This site allows him to keep track of his on-going work, and let others know what sites he has completed. After he completes the research on a memorial it is sent to the primary DND site.

• Canadian Letters from the Wars - shares the letters, mementos, and photos of Canadians from the Wars
• Books of Remembrance - lists the names of Canadians who fought in wars and died either during or after them. All the printed books are kept in the Memorial Chamber located in the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
• National Archives of Canada - you can search a database of WW1 Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) soldiers and even add your own pictures to the database.
• Courage Remembered - the world wars through Canadian eyes.
• Veteran Affairs Canada.
• Canadian Virtual Museums
• The Maple Leaf Legacy Project - a very ambitious project to photograph and display on the Web each and every Canadian War Grave from the South African War (1899-1902), World War 1 (1914-18), World War II (1939-45), Korean War (1950-52) and all United Nations Peacekeeping Missions to the present day. The Maple Leaf Legacy Project is being produced by Canadians, for Canadians with the help of the people from many nations. It is truly an international collaboration.
• The Canadian Great War Home Page.
• Canadian Military and Veteran Master Resource Guide.
• History Dept at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Field Diaries of the First World War - by A. C. M. Thomson.
• UNOFFICIAL Royal Westminster Regiment - part of the web site contains a "diary" describing the experiences of the CEF 7th Batallion and from there there is a link to the "diary" of L/Cpl A.P. O'Cryphal. - Note this site was recently hijacked by a teenager's web cam, excuse the error.
• 11th and 12th Canadian Machine Gun Company - lots of interesting letters and war diaries
• 43rd Battalion (Cameron Highlanders of Canada)
• The CEF 54th Battalion
• The CEF 102nd Infantry Battalion
• Canadian Scottish Museum - John Maybin is the curator of the CSR Museum.
• Harry Palmer Galary - Canadian World War I Memorials and Cemeteries in Europe Gallery photographed in 1989
• The Patricia’s (PPCLI)
• Echo in My Heart - Correspondence between Frederick Stanley Albright and Elnora Evelyn (Kelly) Albright, and it spans the time of their early courtship, engagement and marriage and their separation in 1917 when Fred went overseas with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War 1. Evidently they had known each other for some time before beginning to correspond. Frederick Stanley Albright, died October 26, 1917. He is buried at Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery, Belgium.
• University of Western Ontario -The J.J. Talman Regional Room in the D.B. Weldon Library at The University of Western Ontario in London, Canada is home to a unique archival collection of books, newspapers and ephemera, as well as many documents and records of a public or personal nature. Often items are donated to the University when their owners believe they may be of interest to researchers. Such was the case with an exceptional collection of letters (Echo in My Heart) that have lain virtually unread for almost eighty years.

If you know of other Canadian Web sites related to the Canadians at Passchendaele, please email the URL location to Benjamin KEEVIL.

Did your Grandfather give his life at Passchendaele in 1917?

• The Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 - in Zonnebeke, Belgium has started a new project --- the Passchendaele Archives. The third battle of Ypres ended when the Canadians took the destroyed village of Passchendaele in November 1917. Before them, the British and Australians suffered many casualties. Many men died, some of them have a grave, others have not. The project wants to put faces and personal stories on the headstones and names of the victims of the battle of Passchendaele and needs photographs and stories of soldiers who died between July 12 and Nov 15, 1917. For more information, contact Jan Van der Fraenen, jan.vanderfraenen@zonnebeke.be in Belgium.

Other interesting Web sites

• The Western Front Association - 6000 members mainly in the UK.
• Detailed guides on the Great War - by Michael Stedman for both the battlefield visitor or armchair traveller.
• Hellfire Corner by Tom Morgan, Hellfire Corner Links.
• The Great War by Karl Murray in Northern Ireland.
• WW1 Photos
• The Great Haig Debate Articles
• American Expeditionary Force Museum - is being built in France by a Frenchman, Gilles Lagin, with his own money. The Germans dismantled previous museums during WW2.
• The Official History of Australia in the war of 1914–1918 by Charles Bean is available on the Australian War Memorial website. This monumental work is almost universally referred to whenever Australia's contribution to the war is considered.
• The American Memory - American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning. Includes a Time Line of the Great War
• An Unfortunate Region - A website about the Great War battlefields and individuals by Peter van den Heuvel and Marco Hoveling.
• Regiments.org - summarizes all the British and Canadian Regiments
• Animals in War Memorial in Brook Gate, Park Lane, UK. Eight million horses died in the Great War.
• Popular Songs Sung By The Soldiers - includes lyrics and audio
• German War Monuments Site - this site memorializes the names of the dead and collects, archives and makes publicly available, particularly for use by genealogists, inscriptions from war memorials of the German and Austrian armies. The term “war memorial” should be read broadly, as it is meant to include memorial books (such as the RJF Memorial Book, which memorializes Jewish World War 1 casualties of the German armed forces), lists of casualties kept by municipalities and grave inscriptions from war cemeteries, particularly where they are located far from home.
• Friends of Veterans Canada

For a list of research books and organizations, see the Friends of Veterans Canada page.