Montreal Black Watch RHR drummer 'Bubsy Earl Young

Originally posted by Joyce
Thank you both for your help.

All the best & remember Red Friday's.

Joyce

Hi Joyce,

Did ANY of your Grandfathers' brothers pass away more than 20 years ago? If so, I think that anyone may request the service records, whether related or not.

Family is always a good place to turn for trying to find out information, especially siblings, children and grandchildren of the one who served, if any.

Meanwhile, there are a number of places to check out that I can think of to gather more information about the Black Watch. I found the link for the Black Watch of Canada for you, if you haven't come across it yet I suggest visiting the site and browsing it, The "History" link is a good one to check out for all sorts of information ... it has a drop down menu of links, including one for Archives (which is where I found the below information for you )

They also have a "Montreal Branch" you can check out: http://www.blackwatchcanada.com/en/assocs.htm

And ... a photo gallery that you might enjoy looking at as well:
http://www.blackwatchcanada.com/en/photoarchive.htm

It looks like you have a good possibility of getting records or info from the Black Watch site ... I hope so!!!! Let me know if this works out for you!

http://www.blackwatchcanada.com/

Record Requests
We receive numerous requests for personnel records every week. The research on these requests is done on a volunteer basis. Our archives are not publicly funded, and we must rely on donations to provide this service; therefore we ask for your help in keeping the archives accessible.

For the period of 1900-1945 requests must be submitted by downloading this ARCHIVE REQUEST FORM which is in PDF format. You must have the free Acrobat Reader available HERE, to open this type of document. E-mail requests will no longer be accepted.

Other on-line resources include:
National Archives of Canada
Black Watch WW2 Casualty Database
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

As for the "Ordinance" part ... I'll hope someone else jumps in here and can explain that to you, because I don't know enough about anything to answer you.

Good luck, and keep asking your questions.

I love how you ended your last post about remembering RED FRIDAYS! Welcome, again, to MLU from me!

Karmen

PS: Ooops ... back in here to add that Mark was already jumping in while I was writing this post