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Van Craen, Joseph Peter: Service no. 189503

Digitized Service Record

Source: Gathering Our Heroes.

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Van Craen, Joseph Peter: Service no. 189503. Source: Gathering Our Heroes.

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A: Important Links

18th Battalion Facebook Group
Canadian Expeditionary Force War Diaries Viewer
In From the Cold Project
IWUY 'STOIRE PRESERVE MEMORY
LAC Copy of 18th Battalion Nominal Roll. Opens as a PDF.
Letters from Vincent
Melville Cafe in Cambidge, Ontario
Regimental Family of The Essex and Kent Scottish

Blogroll

A Writer of History
Behind Their Lines
Charley Bailey
Doing Our Bit: Commemorating Soldiers of the First World War
First World War Veterans of Guysborough County
Great War 100 Reads
If Ye Break Faith
Military Artifact – MilArt
Patrick M. Dennis Canadian Military Historian, Analyst
The Canadian Centre for the Great War
THE LAND OF GOOD NEIGHBOURS
The Regimental Rouge

CEF Units

"C" Company 133rd Battalion, at Camp Borden 1916
102nd Battalion: The Story of the 102nd Canadian Infantry Battalion
106th Overseas Battalion C.E.F. Nova Scotia Rifles
117th Eastern Townships Overseas Battalion, CEF
143rd Battalion C.E.F. (B.C. Bantams)
15th Battalion Memorial Project
161st Huron Battalion ~ Diary of the Soldiers
168th Battalion – Sons of England
19th Battlion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force
21st Battalion CEF
22nd Battalion
28th (Northwest) Battalion
2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles in the Great War, The
38th Battalion: Soldiers of the 38th
3rd Battalion War Diaries Transcription Project
43rd Battalion: Cameron Highlanders of Canada Memorial Site (43rd Battalion)
46th Battalion (South Saskatchewan)
48th Highlanders of Canada
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles
54th Canadian Infantry Battalion in the Great War
85TH OVERSEAS BATTALION C. E. F.
Canadian Expeditionary Force War Diaries Viewer
Canadian Military Police Virtual Museum
History of the 19th Battalion, CEF
It Can't Last Forever: The 19th Battalion and the Canadian Corps in the First World War
The 60th Battalion C.E.F.
The Canadians at Passchendaele – Friends of the 58th Battalion
WW1 Canadian Regimental Histories

Images and Movies

Canada's Great War Album
Canadian Soldiers of WW1
Canadians in Bexhill
GRAVES REGISTRATION UNIT IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM 1914-1920
The Great War
The Great War 1914 – 1918 (Canada)
WW1: Pictures before and during 1914-1918 in the Pas de Calais (In French)

Inactive Blogs

Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919 – No Longer Active
Field Punishment No.1
First World War Hidden History
The Illustrated First World Warfrom the archives of The Illustrated London News – Content Changed Not Useful
Veterans of Southwestern Ontario
Women Heroes of World War I

Individual Soldiers

Always a Soldier
Canada's Great War Album
DAN-JOE & MALCOLM (WW1)
Great War Soldiers of Milton, Ontario, Canada
HAROLD WENT TO WAR
Lakefield War Veterans
Letters from Vincent
My Grandfather's War & the 21st. Battn. CEF
Patriots, Crooks and Safety-Firsters: Colonels of the Canadian Expeditionary Force
Percy's War
Remembering the 149th Lambton Battalion: The Letters of Madeline and Lieutenant William Albert Williams, 1913 – 1919
Russians & Ukrainians in the C.E.F. 1914-1919
Spurred On
WALTER DRAYCOTT’S GREAT WAR CHRONICLE

Research

2007 CEFSG Vimy Project
Bath War Hospital
BNAPS Canadian Military Mail Study Group
BRITISH ARTILLERY FIRE CONTROL: Article about Artillery Calibration Development.
British Home Childre of Canada Facebook Group
British Home Children First World War Casualties
British Home Children of Canada
British Home Children Who Died in the First World War
British Red Cross Volunteers of World War 1
Bruce in Khaki
Campaign Atlas to the Great War
Canadian Courts Martial of the First World War
Canadian Expeditionary Force Clothing – 1903 to 1919
Canadian Expeditionary Force War Diaries Viewer
Canadian Letters and Images Project
Canadian Military History at WLU
Canadian Military History Gateway
Canadian Military Police Virtual Museum
CANADIAN WAR BRIDES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Circumstances of Death Registers, First World War
Cyndi's List: Genological Sites for Canadian Military Research
Dominion Geordies in World War 1
Education Resources for World War 1
Experience Vimy
Flowers of the Forest
Google Earth: The Canadian Expeditionary Force in the Great War 1914-1921
Imperial War Mueseum: Lives of the Great War
Kenora Great War Project
LAC Copy of 18th Battalion Nominal Roll. Opens as a PDF.
Laurier Military History Archive
Library and Archives Canada Collection Search (BETA)
Library and Archives Research Aids: Military Heritage
Loos, Sur les Traces de la Grande Guerre
MODERN CONFLICT ARCHAEOLOGY
Montreal at War 1914 – 1918
Nicholson Utility: Wiki relating to " Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War: Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919" by Nicholson
Nominal Rolls of the Canadian Expeditionary Force
Ontario War Memorials
Patriots, Crooks and Safety-Firsters: Colonels of the Canadian Expeditionary Force
Peace and War in the 20th Century
Remembering the Fallen
Remembering the Great War: The Record's Listing of War Dead from Waterloo Region
Researching Canadian Soldiers of the First World War
Royal Canadian Corps Sigs Militaria Great War Portal
Royal College of Nurses Archive
Saltwood Compendium, Odds, Queries & Curiosities
Strathroy-Cradoc Museuam Virtual War Memorial
The First Tank Crews
The Infantry cannot do with a gun less": The Place of the Artillery in the British Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918
Veterans Death Cards: First World War
War Records Revealed: British, Commonwealth and other military records
WW1
WW1 Canadian Regimental Histories
WWI War Brides in the News

Sources

Armistice Day
British Tank actions of the First World War
C.E.F. Paper Trail, The
Canadian Military History at WLU
Canadian War Museum Archive Search
Davies Sites for Research
GM 1914
Grenade, Hand, Battye designed by Major B.C. Battye RE
Journal of Canadian Labour Studies Archive
National Libray of Scotland Trench Map Resource
Nicholson Utility: Wiki relating to " Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War: Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919" by Nicholson
The Daily Telegraph Newspaper Archive
The First World War War Diary of The Royal Canadian Regiment
The Regimental Rouge
Victoria to Vimy
Wartime Canada
Waterloo Region During the First World War

18th Battalion CEF 1915 1915 War Diary 1916 War Diary 1917 War Diary 1918 War Diary Battles and Unit Actions Died of Illness Died of Wounds Education and Online Resources General Killed in Action Letters Locations Media medical Newspaper Patrols Personal History/Biography Photos Raid Relatives Social Life Soldiers Somme Sources Tactics Training Vimy Ridge Wounds/Wounded

4th Canadian Infantry Brigade 4th Reserve Battalion 4th Trench Mortar Battery 18th Battalion 18th Battalion C.E.F. 19th Battalion 19th Battalion C.E.F. 20th Battalion 20th Battalion C.E.F. 21st Battalion 21st Battalion C.E.F. 91st Battalion accident A Company Arras artillery baseball bath parade Battle of Fler-Courcelette Battle of Vimy Ridge Belgium Boulogne Brantford Ontario Brigade Reserve Brigadier General Robert Rennie brothers Christmas Church Parade clothing parade Commonwealth War Graves Commission Communion service died of wounds Distinguished Conduct Medal Divine Service Etaples Fatigue party flares Folkestone funk hole Galt Ontario Great War Centenary Association grenade H. M. King George Killed in Action La Clytte leave Lens letter letter home Lieut. Col. L.E. Jones LIEUT. D. St.J WIGLE Lieut. J.N. MacRae Lieut. P.G. Might Lieut. S.G. STOKES LIEUT. V.M. EASTWOOD London Free Press London Ontario Lt.-Col. L.E. Jones Lt. Col. E.S. Wigle machine gun MAJOR EMMERTON MAJOR J.A. McINTOSH Military Cross Military Medal mud Neuville Vitasse No Man's Land Ontario Paisley Ontario Passchendaele patrol Pay Parade photograph pneumonia prisoners Rememberance Day research Ridgewood Scouts shelling sniper Soldiers Page Somme St. Eloi tanks TELEGRAPH HILL THELUS SECTOR Tolsford Hill training trenches trench raid Update Vierstraat Villers-Au-Bois Vimy Ridge war diary West Sandling Camp Windsor Ontario wounded YPRES

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