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Thread #98902   Message #1974131
Posted By: Rowan
20-Feb-07 - 05:02 PM
Thread Name: BS: Celebrate Darwin Day
Subject: RE: BS: Celebrate Darwin Day
Able, I'm not sure what you've already tried and I've not searched out any 'particular' info. Like many whose families lived through it, you pick up lots of family gossip and the annual repetitions of info as commentary to the Anzac Day marches means that you accumulate a spread of info over the years. I expect Canadians were like Australians, serving in almost every theatre going, thus requiring specialist search routines to find out what particular units were doing.

The Australian War Memorial (in Canberra and Googlable) keeps the national archives of what Australians did and also assists in tracking down information from Unit Diaries. It may be able to help you with info about Units from overseas who served in Australia. I don't know if Canada has an equivalent institution but I'd be very surprised if it didn't.

Cheers, Rowan