Military Service Files

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The Military Service Files database includes an entry for all individuals identified in the military service files and/or military service ledgers of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment and Newfoundland Forestry Companies the Royal Newfoundland Regiment and Newfoundland Forestry Companies duplicate remove, held by The Rooms Provincial Archives as part of GN 19 Newfoundland military service records (Great War) collection.

Included are the over 6700 members of the First Newfoundland Regiment (later "Royal") and the Newfoundland Forestry Companies, including officers, other ranks, Drum and Bugle Corps, attached specialists and special duty assignments.

An individual's complete service file is attached where available. Service files do not exist for all individuals identified in the records. In this instance, a database record was created based on content recorded in the Military Service ledgers.

Using the Military Service Files database

The records are keyword searchable and sortable based on the column headings: Name, Community, Service number, Age at enlistment, Next of kin, Occupation, Active date, Date of death and Religion. POW status and Fatality status are yes/no searchable fields.

To search for a specific individual, enter their name and/or service number.
To view the attached service file, click on the individual's name.
To view details of an individual's commendations, select the pdf file at the right
To sort the results of a large search, click on the column heading.
To search for Prisoners of War, use the keyword POW.
Notes concerning variant names, misfiled documents, additional service, etc. are included as required.

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Name Sort descending	Service NO.	Active Date	Commendations	P.O.W.	Fatality	Date of Death
ABBOTT, Stanley	283	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
ASH, Archibald	575	1914	Yes	No	Yes	1917-02-23
AYRE, Wilfred Douglas	0-104 - 164	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
BARNES, Lawrence	528	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-08-14
BARRETT, Harold George	0-69 - 798	1914	Yes	No	Yes	1917-08-16
BARRETT, Leonard Josiah	372	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
BARTLETT, Joseph Patrick	629	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
BARTLETT, Rupert Wilfred	0-17 - 166	1914	Yes	No	Yes	1917-11-30
BARTLETT, William Washer	270	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-03-19
BASTOW, Frederick Donald	700	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-10-12
BASTOW, Gordon Clarence	930	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-10-11
BENDELL, James Alexander	207	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-10-09
BENNETT, Peter Francis	770	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-04-14
BEST, Frank Gordon	42	1914	Yes	No	Yes	1917-10-09
BLYDE, Michael John	280	1914	No	No	Yes	1915-09-26
BOWDEN, Hugh Pierson	526	1914	Yes	No	Yes	1917-11-20
BRADLEY, Wilfred	398	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-09-17
BREEN, John	67	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
BRODERICK, Michael	808	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-03
BROWN, Edward John	545	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
BURGE, Allen	624	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
CAHILL, Martin Joseph	258	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
CALLAHAN, Rodger John	344	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
CAREW, David Michael	776	1914	No	No	Yes	1915-10-07
CAREW, John Joseph	651	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
CARROLL, Thomas	274	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
CARTER, James Henry	222	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-11-20
CARTER, Llewellyn James	198	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-02
CHAFE, Ernest Leslie	709	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
CHAPLIN, John Fielding	584	1914	No	No	Yes	1915-01-01
CLARE, Lawrence Edward	343	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-10-12
CLARKE, George Rankin	271	1914	No	No	Yes	1915-11-24
CLEARY, Charles Allen	679	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
CLEARY, John	288	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
CLIFT, Cecil Bayly	0-174 - 505	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-10-12
COLE, Edward Louis	195	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-06-28
COLE, Samuel	0-63 - 465	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-10-09
COLLINS, James	567	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-04-14
COLLINS, William Joseph	82	1914	No	No	Yes	1915-10-28
COMOR, Maurice	725	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-12-05
CONNORS, Daniel Francis	649	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-04-14
CONNORS, James Patrick	209	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
CONSTANTINE, Peter Joseph	563	1914	No	No	Yes	1920-04-08
COOK, Henry William	483	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-10-12
COOK, William	553	1914	No	No	Yes	1918-04-26
COOMBS, Harry	393	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
COOPER, Peter J.	786	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-10-09
CRANE, Nathaniel	363	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-04-14
CUFF, George Little	630	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-04-14
CUMMINGS, Arthur	815	1914	No	Yes	Yes	1917-04-14
DAWE, Henry Charles	589	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
DOHANEY, William Patrick	496	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
DUNPHY, John	44	1914	No	No	Yes	1915-12-12
DUNPHY, William	15	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
EBSARY, Hubert Edgar	339	1914	No	No	Yes	1915-12-01
EBSARY, Hubert Edgar	339	1914	No	No	Yes	1915-12-01
EBSARY, Samuel Joseph	0-110 - 501	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-10-15
EDGAR, Charles Legallais	0-203 - 199	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-02-26
EDGAR, Edwin	737	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
EDGECOMBE, Edward Francis	40	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-08-21
EDWARDS, John Charles	450	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-21
ELLIOTT, John	22	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
ELLIS, John Joseph	443	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
ELSWORTH, James	625	1914	No	No	Yes	1915-11-04
EVANS, Joseph Wellington	181	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
EVANS, Leonard	658	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-10-11
FERGUSON, Stewart Small	95	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
FOWLOW - CLARKE, William.	81	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
FRAMPTON, John	626	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
FREEBAIRN, Buchanan W.	724	1914	No	No	Yes	1915-10-23
FRENCH, John Joseph	63	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
GARDNER, Cyril	0-65 - 824	1914	Yes	No	Yes	1917-04-14
GARF, Fred	125	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
GEAR, James Joseph	695	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-04-14
GILLAM, Arthur Wilfred	454	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
GLADNEY, Edward Francis	335	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
GOOD, Robert Joseph	219 - 8176	1914	No	No	Yes	1921-07-24
GOOD, Robert Joseph	219 - 8176	1914	No	No	Yes	1921-07-24
GOODYEAR, Stanley Charles	0-40 - 334	1914	Yes	No	Yes	1917-10-10
GORMAN, Joseph Julian	794	1914	No	No	Yes	1915-03-30
GOSSE, Ira Joseph	716	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-10-11
GRANT, William Hayes	0-159 - 410	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-04-19
GREEN, John Henry Stanley	0-118 - 108	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-07-07
GREENE, Walter Martin	0-43 - 266	1914	Yes	No	Yes	1917-11-20
HALL, William	352	1914	No	No	Yes	1918-10-14
HANEY/HEANEY, James Patrick	476	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
HARDING, Herbert	353	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-04-23
HARDY, Edward	677	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-10-12
HARDY, John	760	1914	No	No	Yes	1915-10-14
HARDY, William Frank	179	1914	No	No	Yes	1915-09-23
HATFIELD, George Bernard	65	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
HERDER, Hubert Clinton	0-79 - 3	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
HIGGINS, Edmund James	756	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-02
HOARE, Edward John	453	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-06-14
HOCKLEY, John Herbert	216	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
HOLDEN, Luke	329	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
HOLDEN, Patrick	555	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-01-31
HOWARD, James John	560	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
HUNT, James	564	1914	No	No	Yes
HUSSEY, William Thomas	356	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-04-14
HUTCHINS, Harold	602	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
HYNES, John Francis	238	1914	No	No	Yes
HYNES, Lemuel Edward	806	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-04-14
HYNES, Richard Edward	807	1914	Yes	No	Yes	1916-07-01
JACKMAN, Arthur Joseph	533	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-04-14
JACKMAN, Bert	697	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-05
JACKMAN, Michael Joseph	733	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
JANES, Albert Evelyn	702	1914	Yes	No	Yes	1918-04-14
JEANS, John Allan	424	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
JEFFERS, Silas	292	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
JOHNSON, John Joseph	135	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-02
JOY, Edward	502	1914	Yes	No	Yes	1918-10-14
KANE (KEANE), Walter Arthur	803	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-10-16
KANE, George	208	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-12-03
KEATS, William	203	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-04-14
KELLY, Michael Francis	148	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
KELLY, Thomas Joseph	178	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
KENNEDY, Michael Francis	255	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
KERSHAW, Robert	0-59 - 406	1914	No	No	Yes	1918-03-09
KNIGHT, George Samuel	309	1914	No	No	Yes	1915-12-02
KNIGHT, William	373	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
KNIGHT, William Blackler	290	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
LAHEY, Robert Joseph	254	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
LANGMEAD, George Jr.	0-22 - 14	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-12-08
LESHANA, William Edward	799	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
LIDSTONE, Harold	163	1914	Yes	No	Yes	1917-11-20
LILLY, Augustus	194	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
LIND, Francis Thomas	541	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
LODGE, Samuel Thomas	165	1914	No	No	Yes	1915-10-01
LUKINS, George	544	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-07-01
LUKINS, John	547	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-06-28
MACDONNEL, John Patrick	582	1914	No	No	Yes	1915-10-29
MACKAY, Andrew Joseph	572	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-13
MADDIGAN, Richard Joseph	826	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
MANNING, Augustine Joseph	177	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-06-01
MANUEL, Alfred	721	1914	Yes	No	Yes	1917-04-14
MARTIN, Eric Shannon	616	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
MCNEIL, Donald Fraser	411	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-06
MCNIVEN, William Robert	279	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
MELLOR, Frederick Courtney	0-77 - 91	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
MILES, Heber John	934	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-03-18
MILES, Victor William	214	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
MILLER, Benjamin	300	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-10-09
MILLER, George	587	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
MILLER, William Patrick	107	1914	No	No	Yes	1915-10-07
MOORE, John	n/a	1914	No	No	Yes
MORGAN, Robert Stanley	719	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-10-10
MORRIS, Kenneth	412	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
MOYES, Allan	546	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
MURPHY, Edward Joseph	112	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
MURPHY, Joachim	696	1914	No	No	Yes	1915-11-07
MURPHY, Lawrence	196	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
MURPHY, Walter Leonard	407	1914	No	No	Yes	1915-09-29
MYRICK, John	99	1914	No	No	Yes	1915-12-10
NEVILLE, William John	376	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-04-14
NEWMAN, Archibald Mark	487	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-03
NICHOLS, Campbell Whittycombe	810	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-16
NOFTALL, Edward George	83	1914	No	No	Yes	1918-09-29
NOFTALL, Edward George	83	1914	No	No	Yes	1918-09-29
NOONAN, Henry Colton	839	1914	No	No	Yes	1921-08-26
NOONAN, Robert Anthony	812	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-10-14
NOSEWORTHY, Herman	354	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
NOSEWORTHY, William	206	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-10-09
OBRIEN, Augustus	0-172	1914	Yes	No	Yes	1916-10-18
ODRISCOLL, Albert.	551	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
OFLYNN, Michael Joseph	727	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
OKEEFE, William Joseph	521	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
OLEARY, James Joseph	391	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
OLLERHEAD, William	746	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
OLSEN, Joseph	313	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-04-14
ONEILL, Michael Joseph	763	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
OSMOND, Douglas McNeil	306	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-08
OTOOLE, Frank	0-64 - 365	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-10-12
PAUL, Reginald J.	731	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
PENNEY, Arthur Joseph	6	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-04-14
PENNEY, Josiah H.	665	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
PENNEY, Robert	559	1914	No	No	Yes	1918-03-20
PIERCEY, Birkley	421	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-04-14
PITTMAN, Richard	400	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
REID, Alfred	761	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-08-18
REID, Carl	790	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-08-12
REID, Charles	671	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
REID, Robert Bruce	0-218 - 593	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
RENDELL, Arthur James	204	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
RENDELL, Clifford	0-144 - 621	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-22
RENDELL, Herbert	0-93	1914	Yes	No	Yes	1918-09-29
RICHARDSON, Frank	66	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-08-16
RIDEOUT, Edwin Pierce	228	1914	No	No	Yes	1918-04-27
ROBERTS, Frank	383	1914	No	No	Yes	1915-10-23
RODGERS, Thomas Edward	394	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-10-12
ROGERS, Edward Joseph	355	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
ROOST, William J.	76	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-03-02
ROSS, Michael Joseph	250	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
ROWE, Harry Mott	611	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-11-20
ROWSELL, Edward Clayton	571	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
RYALL, William Thomas	0-87 - 53	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
RYAN, Bernard	123	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-04-14
RYAN, William Joseph	133	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
SELLARS, Allan Augustus	706	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-08-19
SEWARD, Horatius	172	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-08-16
SHEEHAN, John Joseph	35	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-12-27
SHORTALL, Richard Aloysius	0-78 - 395	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
SIMMONDS, William Thomas	349	1914	No	No	Yes	1918-04-12
SIMMS, John Henry	88	1914	Yes	No	Yes	1917-08-17
SIMMS, Robert Ronald	576	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-10-09
SMITH, Samuel Reginald	0-162 - 932	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-04-14
SNOW, Frederick Earnest	685	1914	Yes	No	Yes	1916-07-01
SNOW, Hardy Frederick	322	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-10-12
SNOW, William	750	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-10-12
SPARKS, George J.	253	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
SQUIBB, Josiah	243	1914	No	No	Yes	1915-10-19
STEELE, Owen William	0-89 - 326	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-08
STEPHENSON, John Sydney	0-112 - 32	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-04-14
STRATHIE, Harry Groves	494	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
STRONG, Charles St. Clair	2000-09-30	1914	No	No	Yes	1918-04-15
SUMMERS, Michael Francis	0-158	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-16
SWEENEY, Patrick	703	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-02-27
TAYLOR, Charles Frederick	293	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
TAYLOR, George Hayward	0-102 - 28	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
THOMAS, Walter	722	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-15
THOMSON, James Elliot	0-201 - 61	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-03-03
TILLEY, Henry	307	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-04-14
TIZZARD, Gordon	753	1914	No	No	Yes	1918-04-10
TOBIN, James John	0-187 - 69	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-11-20
TUFF, James Roy	23	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-04-28
VAUGHAN, Francis Joseph	481	1914	No	No	Yes	1921-05-22
VAUGHAN, Joseph Patrick	800	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-04-14
VAUGHAN, Oscar Augustus	337	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-07-04
WALSH, Michael Francis	399	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
WALTERS, Gilbert	620	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-10-12
WATERFIELD, Joseph R.	789	1914	Yes	No	Yes	1917-10-09
WATTS, James Pittman	397	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-10-12
WATTS, Rupert King	276	1914	No	No	Yes	1915-09-27
WHITE, William	345	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
WHITE, Willis	739	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
WIGHTON, Charles	0-75	1914	No	No	Yes	1915-11-25
WILCOX, Frederick	707	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
WINSOR, Edgar	472	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-10-09
WINTER, Edward Rozier	675	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
WOODFORD, Frank	364	1914	No	No	Yes	1916-07-01
YOUNG, John Bertram	816	1914	No	No	Yes	1917-02-25

ABBOTT, Stanley

283

1914

Yes

1916-07-01