Sniper Snoop Posted 23 August , 2013 Share Posted 23 August , 2013 Hi Im looking for information about the Belgian soldier Private Richard Taelman. He was born on April 14, 1885 at Kruishoutem and died on November 6, 1917 when he did service for the 28th Battalion Canadian Infantry. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial. Any further information about him? Greatz, Rino Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotonmate Posted 23 August , 2013 Share Posted 23 August , 2013 You can find his attestation form on archivescanada. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/cef Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralphjd Posted 23 August , 2013 Share Posted 23 August , 2013 Beaten to it, must get a new computor - drat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotonmate Posted 23 August , 2013 Share Posted 23 August , 2013 Mine is 14 and drawing it's OAP already,so yours must be ancient !! The gas man has just been and emptied the coin box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sniper Snoop Posted 24 August , 2013 Author Share Posted 24 August , 2013 Thanks. So he was also father of a child? And any idea whats happen with him? I think missed during battle of Passchendaele, but what happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotonmate Posted 24 August , 2013 Share Posted 24 August , 2013 Rino The War Diary for 28th Battalion CEF is also on collectionscanada but there seems to be a restriction at the moment. Once in you can read of the events of the days leading up to and including the 6 November 1917. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sniper Snoop Posted 25 August , 2013 Author Share Posted 25 August , 2013 I can not find them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotonmate Posted 25 August , 2013 Share Posted 25 August , 2013 They are there,a whole list of them but several,including the 28th,weren't accessible last night due to archive activity. I will see If I can put the link up for you,then you can try again now and then. OK,go to the link I posted a few back.Click on English ( if you want) then Search Help,you will see the first item in the second batch of headings is Archived- War Diaries etc. It's actually accessible today ! Just click on the above and enter 28th Battalion and Nov 1917. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sniper Snoop Posted 25 August , 2013 Author Share Posted 25 August , 2013 Found it! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sniper Snoop Posted 26 August , 2013 Author Share Posted 26 August , 2013 You can find his attestation form on archivescanada. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/cef A question and its not about the person. But more about the database. I like this database and my question is, is there also a database for Britain, Scotland, Australia, South-Africa, Germany and much more, were you can find information about soldiers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotonmate Posted 26 August , 2013 Share Posted 26 August , 2013 As far as British servicemen are concerned: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/searchUI You need to play with this database to get the way it runs.I use the extended search usually. It is not the answer to everything because some of the records no longer exist.It's free to search but you pay before you can download any digital record or have non-digital ones copied and sent to you (if that is possible). What soldier records exist are found on Ancestry UK but you need to pay to use the database: http://www.ancestry.co.uk/cs/uk/military Others here will perhaps add their methods and sources. It's a long and complicated story which I will not continue ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sniper Snoop Posted 26 August , 2013 Author Share Posted 26 August , 2013 Yeah, thank you for the help! I like your help, so don't tell it to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iris A.D. Posted 16 July , 2018 Share Posted 16 July , 2018 I found this last week in Passchendaele Archives:https://archives.passchendaele.be/nl/soldier/1327 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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