Lost Trails

As we move through our careers, we serve with hundreds of fellow engineers, make friends and lose touch. If you want to find someone you served with at some point, or you need information on certain people, we may be able to put you in touch. We have an informal network of people and associations that may be able to help you. We can also point you towards several official archives and databank. We can provide instructions as to how to attain service records from government and other sources.

Other places to look are listed on our organizations listed on our Associated Organizations page.  If you cannot make contact there, our Lost Trails feature might help.

Before starting a search, look through our Retirements and Last Post pages.

Can We help?

If you do not find who you are looking for, please send and email by clicking here.  Please include as many details as you can:

  • Your full name and preferred email address;
  • Name/rank/nickname of the person;
  • Year you were last in contact;
  • Some details of their service career; locations, units, ranks; and
  • Whatever else you think might help.

We will quickly monitor your request keep your post active for a year or so.  Let us know if you find your friend!

Sapper Victor C Sparrow

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I am the Director/Curator of The Museum of The Royal Regiment of Canada. I'd like to get in contact with Sapper Victor C Sparrow who served with 2 Field Engineer (now 32 CER) in 1992.
Thanks,

Paul True, lost

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I am looking for Paul True for a friend of mine. Paul and his wife Carol were post to 1 CER in Chilliwack in the early 80's.

Canadian Forestry Corps WWI

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I'm currently researching the work of No. 126 Company, Canadian Forestry Corps during and after WW1. They were posted to Downham Hall in Suffolk in 1918, where it reported they built a railway.

John Francheschi, Cpl. RCE (Ret'd)

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Hello. My name is Peter Mahrle and I am hoping to contact a former pal for old times sake. John was last know to have retired from the RCE in 1969(?). Last posting was 4 Fd Sqd, Ft. Victoria, Werl, Germany.

Lost Beaver