Original Post - 10/24/2014 (Lisa's Family Page)
Library and Archives Canada has been working on digitizing the service files of the Soldiers of the First World War. (UPDATE! They are finished, Yippie!) Every so often I check to see if any of our ancestors that served as a Canadian soldier has been added to the FREE online database. Today I discovered that my Great Grandfather, Wentworth Barnes, records have been added.
It was amazing to be able to read the 60 page PDF file that included medical records, dates and places he served as well as some other interesting bits of information.
Wentworth enrolled on February 1st, 1916 in Toronto, Ontario and he joined the 134th Battalion (48th Highlanders). He left Halifax, Nova Scotia on August 8, 1916, on the S.S. Scotian and arrived in England on August 19, 1916. Once he arrived in England he was transferred to the 15th Battalion at Bramshott Camp in Aldershot, Hampshire, England. In October 1917 he went to France.
Aside from having a few cavities filled in 1917, he had one visit to the hospital after he was buried by a shell in Vimy, France on April 13, 1917. The result
It was amazing to be able to read the 60 page PDF file that included medical records, dates and places he served as well as some other interesting bits of information.
Wentworth enrolled on February 1st, 1916 in Toronto, Ontario and he joined the 134th Battalion (48th Highlanders). He left Halifax, Nova Scotia on August 8, 1916, on the S.S. Scotian and arrived in England on August 19, 1916. Once he arrived in England he was transferred to the 15th Battalion at Bramshott Camp in Aldershot, Hampshire, England. In October 1917 he went to France.
Aside from having a few cavities filled in 1917, he had one visit to the hospital after he was buried by a shell in Vimy, France on April 13, 1917. The result
