Canadian Low-German Mennonites Drafted or Recruited in World War I

Compiled by Glenn Penner

The following list was extracted from the web site http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/cef/001042-100.01-e.php.

This database was searched for men with traditional Low-German Mennonite family names. My extraction may contain a few individuals who were not of Mennonite descent and there are certainly men who were missed. There also appear to be men who were missed by those who scanned the original documents. For example my own grandfather, Johann Sawatsky (b. 1889) and his brother, Jacob (b. 1895), who enlisted in 1916, can not be found in the scans.

Please contact me at gpenner@uoguelph.ca if you have any suggested additions or deletions. If you know of someone who was missed entirely in the database please let me know. I'm sure that my grandfather and his brother are not the only ones who were missed in the scanning process.

The list contains the names of 93 individuals with highlighted links to the relevant images of the recruitment/draft documents.

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