Archive for the 'WWI Military Records' Category

Canadian WWI Soldiers’ Audio Files Online

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

Library and Archives Canada has launched a new website featuring interviews with Canada’s veterans of the First World War.
The site Oral Histories of the First World War has audio files of interviews with more than 20 veterans.
The interviews originated in the CBC series In Flanders Fields, a series of one-on-one interviews with veterans of the […]

Remains of WWI American Soldier Found in France & Identified

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

WASHINGTON - A piece of a size 5½ military boot found at a construction site in France helped Pentagon scientists identify the remains of a missing Cincinnati soldier killed during World War I.
Army Pvt. Francis Lupo’s remains will be buried with full military honors Tuesday in Arlington National Cemetery outside of Washington, nearly nine decades […]

Department of Veterans Affairs Adds Maps to Online Gravesite Locator

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

The Veteran’s Administration Nationwide Gravesite Locator online database is a wonderful resource for genealogists. With a few keystrokes you can locate graves for all kinds of family members - and now get a cemetery map to go with it. My cousin, Elmore Meitzler, and his wife, Doris, are buried in the Fort Custer National […]