CEF Nominal Rolls

[Graham Stewart]

Don't know if any of our Forum members are aware of this, but on the "Internet Archive" is a comprehensive, although by no means complete list of CEF Nominal Rolls, which have been provided by both collectors and researchers for reading and downloading for free.

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=CE...diatype%3Atexts

If this has been covered in another post in Virtual Library then please accept my apologies for wasting valuable space.

[John Gilinsky]

The CEF Study Group in Canada have also posted courtesy of the cooperation of sevreal of their members a very comprhensive list of the nominal rolls. It must be remembered though that these rolls were nominal (that is not complete) and were the original embarkation rolls upon the units leaving Canada for overseas thus dating from 1914 to 1916. They are of course still very very usefull.

John

Toronto

[Kath]

I thought the nominal rolls were rolls or lists of names, and as such real enough.

Kath.

[John Gilinsky]

The nominal rolls were only comprised from unit submitted to central authority namely Ottawa during the first two years of the war. They do NOT reflect the actual composition of the units once they reached Great Britain, nor especially do they reflect the front-line or combattant status of units by individual's names. The Canadian Ministry of Overseas Forces 1916 - 1918 and their records need to be consulted for these latter as well as other records such as individual unit records. Distance, overlapping authorities (including British AND Canadian) and the tempo and length of the war including mergers, feeder battalions and reorganizations all play a part in confronting the modern researcher.

John

Toronto