I am delighted to work in partnership with the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa (BIFHSGO) to offer you this database. It is copyright and wholly owned by BIFHSGO and you are advised not to use any part of it for commercial purposes without seeking permission to do so.
This is a database of the names (and a growing collection of biographies) of 879 WW I soldiers who died at No. 1 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station in select periods between February 1916 and January 1919. The records were transcribed by BIFHSGO volunteers from a journal kept by the chaplains who served at No. 1 CCCS. The entries were transcribed exactly as the chaplain wrote them. Most records include the soldier’s name, rank, service number, unit, date of death, and the name of the chaplain who wrote the information. Some include also the date of admission to the CCCS, the date of burial, a description of the soldier’s wounds and the next of kin, with an address.
BIFHSGO volunteers are researching and writing biographies for all soldiers. Information from the No. 1 CCCS records was supplemented with other publicly available information, as well as occasionally family information, to create these biographies. Every attempt has been made to ensure that these biographies are accurate but, if an error has been made, we do apologise. Please advise BIFHSGO so they can fix or add to the biography. If you have any questions, please email CCCSproject @ bifhsgo.ca [removing the spaces from the address].