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Wanted- Simcoe Forresters History book? WW1

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Looking for info on my Grampa William James Burtch 157th  116th battalion Vimy survivor, member of simcoe forresters
 
Your grandfather's attestation paper is on line in the Library and Archives Canada Site:

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/02/02010602_e.html

Attestation paper:
Date of Birth - 03/04/1880
Front of form - http://data2.archives.ca/cef/gpc002/275084a.gif
        Back of form - http://data2.archives.ca/cef/gpc002/275084b.gif
   
You can also search the War Diaries of the battalion he served with in France:

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/02/02015202_e.html

For histories of the Grey and Simcoe Foresters, try:

Fighting men  / by Leslie Miscambell Frost.  Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, c1967. 262 p.
D640 .F56 1967

Scarlet to green: the colours, uniforms and insignia of the Grey and Simcoe Foresters / by Murray M. Telford. Erin, Ont.: Boston Mills Press, 1987. 64 p. - UC465 .C2 T44 1987

 
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