Deciphering my father's war records

[Mark W. Tonner]

A few more:

X-4 List - reinforcement/reinforcement in transit
QOR of C - Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada
‘CDA’ - Canadian Army (Active)
10 Bn - No. 10 Canadian Base Reinforcement Battalion
13 Bn - No. 13 Canadian Base Reinforcement Battalion
PL - Paid Leave
fap - for administrative purposes
O/S - Overseas
7 Cdn Repat Dep - No. 7 Canadian Repatriation Depot
CTBA - Canadian Transit Barracks, Aldershot
Gen duty - General Duty
2 CBRG - No. 2 Canadian Base Reinforcement Group
X-3 List - Hospital (also for Y-3 List)
AF - Active Force
CATS - Canadian Army Trade School
CARO - Canadian Army Routine Order
CA/OS - Canadian Army (Overseas)
CDN ARMY CDA - Canadian Army (Canada)
CSR - Canadian Scottish Regiment
DO # - District Order Number
Part II D.O - Part two of District Orders

Cheers

[Genesis]

Originally Posted by Stuart Fedak

Thanks for sharing these documents. They are great and a good thing to have. They reflect the reality of WWII.

On Tuesday at DND I had a Privacy Briefing that went over the fact that all personnel records of military personnel become public domain after an individual has been dead for twenty years.

Cheers!
Stuart

Your welcome I wish more people would do this as well I started looking into our families history and found so many of my relatives have served in both world wars, My grandfather was in WWI as well as 12 great uncles, 4 gave their lives in the effort, My father and four of his brothers served in WWII, my uncle James was wounded badly but made it home, It's too bad that it's SO difficult to obtain WWII war records I would like to see all of my families records but if your not in the immediate family forget it!

Here's a picture of my father an his brothers:

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/m...666/warpic.jpg