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The CEFSG team undertook to reproduce the Nicholson text, including all maps and sketches, and to present that in a web based project on the CEFSG MATRIX site as a UTILITY here: http://cefresearch.ca/matrix/Nicholson/ One of the most interesting aspects of that work is that all of the...

This is a general announcement from the members of the CEFSG that the links on this most excellent site at Army.ca that point to our research site are now out-of-date. In July 2012 our site moved to a new home in Canada and as such we are now in the .CA domain instead of the .COM domain. Any...

For the benefit of those visiting this page, please note that the CEF MATRIX project has moved to a new site in Canada and that the link that Michael noted in his post is now: http://cefresearch.ca/matrix/Projects/Vimy/ For any other references or links, just change the .com in the link...

For any researchers looking for the Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group site (CEFSG) let me not here that the site was relocated in July 2012 to a new server in Canada. The main site is here: http://cefresearch.ca The MATRIX Project sub-site is at http://cefresearch.ca/matrix We also now...

A number of us are working on a project to tie in battalion listings, war diaries, reference sites and general unit history into a web site matrix as part of the CEFSG study group.  I recognize a few names here that frequent that forum as well.  I also see that there is a lot of valuable...

Page A7 of the Toronto Star has an article on Ernest "Smokey" Smith at age 90, indicating he is Canada's only surviving Victoria Cross recipient.   The VC winners are being honoured with new stamps, as clearly depicted in the photo.   Now that makes me think that if Canada Post Corporation has...

Ah, a happy day in Milton, Ontario. Today my own copy of Nicholson's book "Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War" arrived from Harmon's used books in Pleasantville, Nova Scotia. It is in excellent condition, I don't think it saw very much use, if any. I see it was owned by...

New to the site, brought here by my search on the Topham VC project.   My research is on my grandfather at Vimy Ridge, details of which are well documented at http:/www.censol.ca/research/greatwar/ and so I welcome your visit and comments.   My grandfathers MC will never leave the family!!