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cause of death, burial details and estate recordsįor about 1,600 database entries there is also a second attachment.

squadrons with which they served (Royal Canadian Air Force).

names of ships on which they served (Royal Canadian Navy).

military units with which they served (Canadian Army).

This is a selection of the most relevant documents from the person’s service file highlighting their service, such as: The others are limited to the results that contain those details.Īll of the database entries include a digital “genealogy package”. Only the one called Branch will apply to all results. To the left of your search results, you will see a menu of search term limiters.You may get no results if you enter something in those fields. Most of the database entries do not yet have those additional details.

Some past projects involved indexing extra details from select files relating to place of birth and enlistment.To search that field, enter relevant keywords in Any of these words.Those details appear in our database entries in the Extra Information field. Their data often includes details such as the names of the person’s spouse or parents and where they lived. This database was first created from the data provided to us by the Canadian Virtual War Memorial. In Service number, enter the person’s number without a dash or space after the letter, for example R88087.In Date, you can enter the year of death or a range of years.They were identified by their name and rank only. Army officers did not have service numbers.Try the * wildcard character, for example, Fran* for Frank, Francis, François.The entries reflect the spelling of names as they appear in the files. Some entries only have an initial instead of a full first name.Try searching with only the first name instead of including middle names.Start with a simple search with just the person’s name.

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