First World War Personnel Records database

Many Canadians served in the First World War, 1914 to 1918, also called World War I (WWI) or The Great War. On this page you can search for personnel records, or service files, of those in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF), non-permanent active militia, the Royal Newfoundland Regiment and Newfoundland Forestry Corps.

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