This tour starts with the Town of Milton Cenotaph in the Regional Municipality of Halton, Province of Ontario CANADA. Each of the placemarks has texts and photos, so please be sure to stop at any place in the tour to read about the soldiers or to see their grave site photos. This tour is an update of the previous posts to incorporate all the sites and placemarks into one posting, the preference of the Google Earth HQ staff.

As part of our 2006 Remembrance Day Project, we researched the soldiers of WWI who are on the cenotaph, the details of which were incorporated into a Blog here:
http://miltonsoldiers.blogspot.com/

There you will find web links to their Attestation Papers held by Library & Archives Canada, their page on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission site and the Virtual War Memorial, as well as photographs (as available) that are on file with the Maple Leaf Legacy Project.

For the 2007 Remembrance Day Project, we enhanced the research to find out what lead to the death of each of the soldiers. To accomplish this, we researched the battalion war diaries for the period when they were in action and subsequently killed. We then tied this to information on that unit provided in the CEFSG Matrix, as well as to the battle details, maps and sketches in the authoritative by Colonel Nicholson.

The detailed files for each of the folders, with direct links to the maps and text can now be found on a special portion of the web site of the Milton Historical Society here:

Milton Historical Society - Great War Soldiers 1914-1919

We are still neophytes when it comes to making a "Google Earth Tour" but we trust you will enjoy this trip as you fly from Milton Ontario Canada to the battlefields and cemeteries of Europe (and elsewhere as needed). To start the tour select TOOLS and then the TOUR, or press the PLAY arrow at the bottom right of the "Places" window.

The sub-folders and files mark the locations of Milton Soldiers who served in the Great War (World War One 1914-1919) and were either killed in action during the war, died of wounds shortly after the war, or died during of illness or accident while serving in the CEF (Canadian Expeditionary Force).

The following locations are reported as of this date:

- Evergreen Cemetery, Milton Ontario Canada
- Vis-en-Artois Cemetery, France
- Vimy Memorial, France
- Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres Belgium
- Brown's Road Military Cemetery, Festubert France

Contact Information for this project:
Richard Laughton
miltonsoldiers@gmail.com