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Canadian Monument, Passchendaele Ridge
by Mary Riter Hamilton


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Researching Guidance, Service Records. Graves Information

On the World Wide Web

Researching Your Doughboy Relative
Frequently Asked Questions format gives an overall strategy for learning about ancestors whor served with the AEF as well as providing much detailed information. From the Doughboy Center.
American Battle Monuments Commission
Photos and information on every US military cemeteries and monuments overseas; good for tracking down Doughboys' buried in Europe.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Great search engine.
British PRO Contact Information
Use this link to contact the Public Records Office at Kew. Many service records are now available.
Veteran Affairs of Canada
A good starting point for researching Canadian veterans.
War Graves Commssion Contact Information
The War Graves Commssion can be very helpful in locating the graves of the fallen.


Helpful Resources for Identifying WWI Medals, Badges and Insignia

On the World Wide Web

Australian War Medals
Be sure to check out this great resource on British Commonwealth medals.

In Print

Thanks to Great War Society Member: Jack Savage Wildman for putting this list together.

[Note that some post-WWI titles are included since there was much carry over from the First World War. MH]

Philippe Bartlett
BADGES OF THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION 1923 - 1989
Printed in France--4o trimestre 1989, ISBN 2-950 4247, 1989

David Borthick & Jack Britton
MEDALS, MILITARY AND CIVILIAN OF THE UNITED STATES
MCN Press (Military Collectors' News Press)
PO Box 702073, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74170
ISBN - 0-912958-25-1

Editors of Boston Publishing Co., Boston, Massachusetts,
ABOVE AND BEYOND,
A History of the Medal of Honor,  from the Civil War to  Vietnam.
Sammler Kabinett, 1985.

Bernard Fitzsimmons
HERALDRY AND REGALIA OF WAR
Beekman House, New York, 1973
Purnell's History of the World Wars

Gilbert Grosvenor
INSIGNIA OF THE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES
The National Geographic Magazine
Vol. LXXXIII, June, 1943

Edward C. Joslin
THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF BRITISH AWARDS AND MEDALS
Frederick Warner & Co. Ltd., London, England, 1974

Andrew Mollo
THE ARMED FORCES OF WORLD WAR II, Uniforms, Insignia and 
Organization.  
Crown Publishers, One Park Ave., NY 10016, 1981.

Philip K. Robles
UNITED STATES MILITARY MEDALS AND RIBBONS
Charles E. Tuttle, Co., Inc. of Rutland, Vermont, 1971

Guido Rosignoli
The Macmillan Color SeriesARMY BADGES AND INSIGNIA OF WWII
Two Volumes, 1976
Macmillan Publishing Co., NY, 10022
Sharp & Dunnigan Publications

THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR
Forest Ranch, CA  95942

U.S. War Department, Military Intelligence Division
HAND BOOK ON GERMAN MILITARY FORCES
TM-E 30-451. 1943

Frederick Wilkinson
COLLECTING MILITARY ANTIQUES
Harper & Row, Publishers, 1976

Frederick Wilkinson
BADGES OF THE BRITISH ARMY 1820-1960
Arms and Armour Press, London, 1982
U.S. Cameron and Kelker Streets, PO Box 1821
Harrisburg, PA  17105

Gordon Williamson
THE IRON CROSS, A History 1813-1957
Blandford Press, Link House, West Street, Poole, Dorset
BH15 ILL. 1984, 1985.  UK

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