Not sure how much interest there is but just in case I wanted to let everyone know that I'm in the process of adding Royal Canadian Corps of Signals related Canadian Army Overseas organization and war establishments to www.RCSigs.ca. I'll be adding more war establishments but if there are any someone wants to see sooner rather than later, just let me know. The Signals organization I have is from CAO Routine Order 4234 as is effective to 15 January 1944. If someone has others (3844, 4001 and 4108 are referenced in 4234) and can provide them, I'd appreciate it! Link #1: Canadian Army Overseas - Signals composition - RCSigs.ca Link #2: Canadian Army Overseas - War Establishments - RCSigs.ca
My thanks as well. I did try to get hold of the Canadian ASSU WEs a while ago but didn't get them in the end, so it's good to find them in what you've posted. I imagine you've already got them but I do have the RCA Sig Secs for a non-Div Fd Regt and for a Med Regt, RCA, both 1944-45 vintage if they're any use. Gary
Gary: they are not easy to find. FYI: I published all of the war establishments for the Royal Canadian Engineers in a couple of volumes a number of years ago. It took years of digging to find them all. It even took a visit to the NAL in Ottawa.
I've dipped into the Canadian WEs over a very long period, which all has to be done remotely as I'm in the UK and can't get a bus to Ottawa (thankfully I found a very good researcher). Given the way the Canadian WE records are filed it's difficult to get a specific WE table, but on the plus side they did keep the majority of the associated amendments, which sadly wasn't the case over here. I'm sure I've seen your book in past web searches on WEs. My few RCE tables are for the 1944-45 Div units. Gary
FYI: most of the Canadian WEs in WWII were based on British WEs and I suspect that most of the other Commonwealth's countries are as well. The major exception was the 6th Inf. Div. as it prepared to fight the Japanese in 1945. They reorganized to US TO&E. I have your book on the airborne engineer WEs, which really helped with my books on the engineers of Operation Market Garden. Good job!
I am not sure if you have discovered the section of War Establishments at Heritage Canadiana under the 1946 Army Central Registry. If you have not already, check out the following: 1946 Army Central Registry - Héritage Reels C-4889 to C-4974 deal with WEs
Glad you liked the WE book, seems forever ago now. The Canadian archives do indeed have a full set of US Army T/O&Es for the Infantry Division, at least as it stood in early 1945. Unfortunately the way the originals were converted into microfilm records has made them practically unreadable. It would have saved me a great deal of time and effort if I could have used the Canadian copies for my US T/O&E interests. The Canadian documents fared a little better, but not much. Gary
Thanks for the link, I don't think it's one I've seen before. I had the briefest of looks through given the amount of pages, and my computer was having trouble loading them, and most of the few I accessed were Volume IV and V tables, for Line of Communication and Home Forces units respectively. Also a few Volume I and II (Armoured and Infantry Divisions) for 1940-41. Gary
Site updates for the RCCS/Signals WEs that I have in my possession are now posted. 54 in total.. If anyone has others, or other versions of those posted, and can contribute, please let me know. Thanks Dryan67 for the link. I'll now go through those to see what I may have missed while at LAC. For reference, the Canadian Army Overseas organization lists I was looking for are in file 1/FORMATIONS/10 which is available online: Canadian Military Headquarters, London : T-17830 - Héritage
Still on the hunt for the following WE: CDN/III/30D - Technical Maintenance Section CDN/III/301 - Headquarters Line of Communication Signals CDN/III/312 - Headquarters First Canadian Army Signals CDN/IV/27B - Base Signal Section CDN/IV/113 - Canadian Signal Replacement Unit W/74 - Royal Canadian Corps of Signals Band
I'm happy to report that after (belatedly) following dryan67's advice I have at least one version of all known SWW Canadian Army Overseas Signals related WEs posted - 61 in total. Lots other versions and amendments turned up along the way (along with Home WE) so I'll be adding these to the site over the next while.
Ok, never say "all known" because it will jinx it. I'm continuing to go through the volumes suggested by dryan67 and I'm now at 70 different overseas establishments related to Canadian Signals with 690 pages posted so far.
