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From: Stella Stanger <>
Subject: Re: [CAN-BC] Great War
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 14:05:02 -0700
In-Reply-To: <3d.b490b6.26ec01cf@aol.com>


Hi Barbara, At the end of the obituary - I included the following. If
you go to those sites -you will find information.


National Archive Canada: Soldiers : Records can be ordered.
If you go to the following site - type in the name Thomas Westover - two
will come up.
one as Thomas Westover - the other as: Thomas William Hamilton
Westover. The site will give the regiment # - Reference # ( click the
little box to the side of the name )
http://www.archives.ca/exec/naweb.dll?fs&02010602&e&top&0
This site will give you information - about how to obtain the military
records if one of the Thomas Westover is yours.
http://www.archives.ca/exec/naweb.dll?fs&02010601&e&top&0

68th Battallion CFA ( Canadian Forces ? Army ?) just a guess on the CFA.
There is good information at the following sites:
The Great War was 1914 - 1918
http://www.pitt.edu/~pugachev/greatwar/information.htm
http://www.pitt.edu/~pugachev/greatwar/ww1.html#find information on a
Relative who served in the Great War
http://users.tibus.com/the-great-war/
In Flanders Field was written during the Great War WW1
http://www.cc.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/McCrae.html
http://www.cc.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/ThePoets.html

I will take another look for Jessie's obit. in the next few days.
Cheers, Stella




At 05:12 PM 9/9/00 -0400, wrote:
>Thankyou Stella for the obituary of my husband's grandfather Thomas WESTOVER.
> The obituary states he died in the Veterans Hospital and was a veteran of
>the Great War, serving with the 68th, Btn CFA.




>Can someone tell me if this was W W I or perhaps since he was born in England
>a war in Europe? He was born in 1872 so seems a bit old for a war in 1817 -
>1819 but I do not know the age limits for service at that time. Where can I
>find out more about the unit or what the Btn CFA stands for?
>Thank you Barbara in Oregon
>
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