If your First World War Canadian soldier’s name began with an S, it won’t be much longer before his service file has been digitized and made available to view on Library and Archives Canada’s website.
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) yesterday announced it had reached the name, Russell, digitizing 502,740 of 640,000 Canadian Expeditionary Force service files. This massive digitization project is almost 80 percent complete. At this rate, the project will be completed next year, in time for the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
LAC is digitizing the service files systematically and, for the most part, alphabetically.
