Remembrance of Canada’s War Dead: Overseas and at Home
Each year at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, Canadians at the National War Memorial in Ottawa and across the country pause in remembrance of those who died in military service. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission commemorates casualties of the two world wars from the UK, Canada and elsewhere in the former British Empire. Canada’s Virtual War Memorial often includes additional information and extends recognition to most Canadians who died in other military service, and to the RCMP. The presentation explores and compares what you can find in those and in the many other often obscure memorials.
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John Reid
John D Reid had a latent interest in history since school-days in England. That flourished following retirement into a passion for local and family history. He is a past president of the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa, has published in genealogy magazines and has spoken at conferences in Canada and the UK. Since 2006 his daily genealogy news blog, Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections, has been an independent view of family history resources and developments, seen from an Ottawa perspective.
His interest in war and memorials stems from having a great uncle totally blinded in 1916 serving with the CEF, another who died at Passchendaele, and an RAF uncle who perished in the Second World War.
