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Canadian Death Cards of Veterans

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mgnv

mgnv Report 18 Jul 2012 06:11

Veterans Death Cards: First World War
When Veterans Affairs was notified of the death of a First World War veteran, a death card was created and those cards are now in the custody of Library and Archives Canada and are used as a finding aid to the personnel records of the First World War. These cards are the extent of this set of records; there are no files relating to the notification of death.
There are approximately 130,000 cards, which are arranged alphabetically in 99 cabinet drawers. The contents of each drawer were digitized as a batch of approximately 1300 cards each. The name on the first card in a drawer is the title of that group of cards.

What is in these records?
This collection includes death cards up until the early 1960s for:
Many veterans of the Canadian Expeditionary Force who died after discharge or who died in Canada during the war
Some veterans of the British Forces who died in Canada after the war
Some members of the militia who died in Canada during or after the war
Some navy veterans who died after the war
A few veterans of the Newfoundland Forces who died after the war
A few veterans of Allied Forces (e.g. Indian, French and American armies) who died in Canada after the war
A few veterans of the North West Mounted Police who had military service
A few veterans of the South African War and the North West Field Force (1885 Rebellion)
It does not include cards for:
Members of the Canadian Expeditionary Force who died overseas during the war. For those individuals, please see our War Graves page.



To access images, go to:
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/microform-digitization/index-e.html

and take the
June 18, 2012 - New digitized content:
Veterans Death Cards: First World War
link

The info posted above was from the help link
The collection is unindexed, but is alphabetical.

If you're not sure if it's him, compare with details on his attestation paper images via:
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/cef/index-e.html

AnotherCanuck

AnotherCanuck Report 19 Jul 2012 05:02

Many thanks mgnv for posting this info, much appreciated.

Carol A/Canuck