History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth"
Articles, war diaries, and recognition to the Men of the "Fighting 18th"
Introduction The relative ease with which one can find basic biographical information regarding a Canadian soldier that was killed or died during World War 1 available because of the many online resources and databases is in sharp contrast to the work required for a soldier who survived the war. The original intent of this blog... Continue Reading →
Introduction In a recent post updating this blog and its progress Marika Pirie posted a picture on Twitter that initiated this post. Hopefully post will help others in their work to discovering soldiers of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces that they are researching. This post will show step-by-step the process taken to create a Soldier's Page... Continue Reading →
The blog is progressing well and I am learning a lot along the way. At this time I have approximately 44 soldiers to be added to the Soldiers Pages in the blog where I have done the initial research and now need to go back and redo the research and properly document this in a... Continue Reading →
Rayward, Theodore Oswald Hampton: Service no. 53279 Mewburn, John Chilton: Lieutenant Morrison, Gordon Fraser: Major Humphreys, John: Service no. 413050 Wiese, Harold John: Service no. 802732 Underwood, Clayton Elmer: Service no. 3131734 Stewart, James Charlton: Service no. 53970 Riley, Charles Herbert: Service no. 730379 Osborne, Albert Edward: Service no. 730713 Lee, John: Service no.... Continue Reading →
Put a big push on to get all the soldiers in my database that had service numbers attached to them completed. At this time I have approximately 20 soldiers, all officers, mostly found in the War Diary that need to be researched and entered. The new soldiers are: McMullin, Leonard Calvin: Service no. 844831 Tobicoe,... Continue Reading →
These are the soldiers' pages created since November 27, 2014. Please take time to view them and remember them. Of particular interest will be 18th Battalion snipers Crookshanks and Siddle. First, these are the first identified snipers in the Battalion that I have found. There is an interesting resource written by, possibly, the father of... Continue Reading →
The past week has been fascinating and there are many more 18th Battalion soldiers to post as time moves forward. Please visit each page as each has a story. Weaver, Jesse Edward: Service no. 158734 Dunnett, Harry Douglas: Serivce no. NA McBrine, Frank Stanley: Service no. NA Bishop, Albert Earl: Service no. 189576 Jacobs, James:... Continue Reading →
Aylward, George: Service no. 53883 The Carthy Brothers Carthy, Percy: Service no. 54210 Carthy, Eric: Service no. 54209 Norwood, James Hamiton: Service no. 53605 Pollard, Harry William: Service no. 53881 The Lavelle Brothers Lavelle, Russell George: Service no. 126224 Lavelle, Lewis Edward: Service no. 3132249 Lavelle, Leonard Stanslau: Service no. 3131642 Reynolds, William Henry: Service... Continue Reading →
One of the primary objectives of this blog is to list the soldiers found in the 18th Battalion War Diary. As research shows that the private soldier (or "other ranks") where rarely mentioned in the War Diary of the 18th Battalion the research has been expanded to list any soldier found during research for this... Continue Reading →
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 