Categories include battles, CWGC ID cases, cemeteries, memorials, On This Day type posts, individual soldiers stories and various CEF units (Battalions, Regiments, Batteries, Field Ambulances, Field Hospitals and Hospital Ships). The categories are grouped by tags, so you may find overlap, i.e., a soldier’s story may be particularly relevant to a specific battle, or a unit may be associated with a battlefield cemetery.
Present Categories
- Artist
- Battles
- Cemeteries
- Indigenous Soldier
- Memorials
- On This Day
- Photographer
- Soldiers
- Units Great War
Resources
Some of the best resources to study the Great War free online. Google Earth in conjunction with tMapper and the trench maps at McMaster University indispensable tools. Many stories, images and artifacts concerning men and women who served in the CEF available at The Canadian Letters and Images Project.
- CWGC (Commonwealth War Graves Commission)
- IWM (Imperial War Museum)
- LAC (Library and Archives Canada) – Search: Personnel Records of the First World War
- The Canadian Letters and Images Project
- tMapper (Trench map conversion)
- McMaster University Maps
- The Great War Forum
The Great War Forum
Many armchair historians and experts on the Great War found at The Great War Forum. Their services also come free – join and ask a question! Membership of the Great War Forum open to individuals who wish to discuss matters relating to the Great War subject to a registration process and compliance with these rules. The owners and administrators of the Great War Forum reserve the right to refuse registrations and terminate memberships.
Contact CEFRG
Have no idea what your grandfather did in the Great War? I used to belong to that club too. With eight pilgrimages to the Western Front, I have literally walked in my Grandfather’s footsteps from Boulogne to Cologne. My epiphany occurred standing before the grave of Corporal Leo Clapstone at Faubourg-d’Amiens Cemetery in 2015. My grandfather’s good friend, Leo killed by a shell on 2 September 1918 during Canada’s Last Hundred Days.
Dumbfounded, I saw no sign of recent visitors to his grave. Of course, no poppy to be seen, as Leo had not the chance to marry and have a family like my Grandfather did after the war. Then it struck me – what if Leo and Dick had switched positions on their gun that fateful day? Perhaps it would be Leo’s grandson standing before my grandfather’s grave, and I would never have been born! This connection I have felt while capturing images of over 20,000 Canadian soldiers who made the Ultimate Sacrifice.
Please contact CEFRG should you wish to know more about your grandfather in the Great War. Many requests have inspired the stories you read here.
