Last updated onTuesday April 03, 2012 08:21:11 PM

Michael Thierens (Grandson Michael The Netherlands) has undertaken to search the on-line War Diaries of Library and Archives Canada (Ottawa, Ontario) using a unique extraction program written by Marc Leroux.  This is in addition to the mass project to transcribe a number of the battalion war diaries that is being undertaken by the CEFSG War Diary Users Group (see this posting). There is a separate posting on the forum that provides an update as to what is being added to the Matrix War Diary folders (see this posting).

As work progresses on the Matrix, we will move many of these war diary references to their appropriate place under the Army Corps or Army Troops.  In the interim, you will find what is needed in the links shown in the navigation bar at the top of this page. The Corps and Troops are shown in the format described in the Summary Tables.

Army Corps: Division Field Artillery:

Army Corps: Division Infantry Battalions

Division Corps: Other Units:

Army Troops:

UPDATE APRIL 3, 2012:

Most recently we have started to upload the "consolidated" version of the War Diary to the Internet Archive (http://archive.org). Al Lloyd's documents for the 21st Battalion (War Diary, Part II Orders, Nominal Roll) are all uploaded. Also added this week were Michael Thierens works on the PPCLI and the 42nd Infantry Battalion. If you are the "transcriber of record" for any of the other records and want your work put on the Archive.org web site, please let me know.

UPDATE FEBRUARY 2, 2012:

We have our first addition to the "Division Corps - Other Units" section from Jim LaBossiere and that is now resulted in the creation of the rest of the tables. I understand that this document has been reviewed and released by Grandson Michael, so this is official. We are still looking for more entries - how about some Railway Troops?

UPDATE NOVEMBER 27, 2009:

Michael Thierens has sent in the 85th Battalion of the 12th Brigade, 4th Canadian Infantry Division as transcribed by Ed Tainton. This is for all years 1917-1919 and has not been separated to individual years. That can be done at the request of the authors.

UPDATE MAY 19, 2009:

Al Lloyd sent in a CD with the War Diary for the 21st Battalion and I have now loaded that to the Matrix. To match the rest of the files, I have combined Al's monthly war diaries into annual war diaries. If you have links bookmarked to any of the war diary files, those have now changed, as I have moved each to a separate sub-directory.

UPDATE JANUARY 7, 2009:

We have received the 78th Battalion "Winnipeg Grenadiers" from Grandson Michael.  It appears the transcription was completed by Ed Tainton, with review by Michael Thierens and Lynn Lane.

UPDATE NOVEMBER 11, 2008:

Grandson Michael has submitted the FINAL war diary transcriptions for the 7^th Infantry Brigade Headquarters as well as the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. These have been added to the above table. A great advancement in the process – well done!