Artillery diaries were most often kept by brigades, which numbered about 4,000 men. For example, infantry diaries were recorded by battalions, which consisted of approximately 1,000 men. This is because war diaries were never intended to document individual service, and also due to the size of the unit to which a single war diary referred. War diaries rarely record information about individual men. In addition, units were only required to record their "Actions in the Field." Therefore, you will find very few war diaries for periods during which units mustered in Canada, shipped to Europe or trained in England.
This collection does not include documents relating to the Royal Canadian Navy or Canadians in flying corps, except for two pages from June 1916 for the Royal Flying Corps. For other British units, visit the website of The National Archives. It also includes the war diaries of several British units that served under Canadian command. This collection contains the digitized war diaries of CEF infantry, artillery and cavalry units, brigade, division and corps commands and support units such as railway and forestry troops. Why are the war diaries written in English only?įrom the start of the First World War, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) units were required to maintain a daily account of their "Actions in the Field." This log was called a war diary.
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