In honour of African Heritage Month, the Nova Scotia Archives is pleased to present a digital version of the Nominal Roll of Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men, No. 2 Construction Battalion (March 1917), the only battalion of Black soldiers raised in Canada during the First World War. Additional background information available at http://novascotia.ca/archives/2construction/.
This dataset has the following 14 columns:
| Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | id | number | 1 2 3 4 5 view top 100 |
| ARregimental | arregimental | number | 931182 931194 931023 931360 931308 view top 100 |
| ARrank | arrank | text | Private Corporal Sergeant Lieutenant Captain view top 100 |
| ARlastname | arlastname | text | Williams Johnson Jones Smith Young view top 100 |
| ARfirstname | arfirstname | text | William John Charles James George view top 100 |
| ARformer | arformer | text | nil U.S. Army C.F.A. Can. Mil B.W.I. Vol. view top 100 |
| ARkin | arkin | text | Not Stated n/a Jacklin, Charles Johnson, Mrs. Jesse Turner, Mrs. Elizabeth view top 100 |
| ARStreet Address | arstreet_address | text | Not Stated n/a 3 Union Alley Truro Sherbourn view top 100 |
| ARCity | arcity | text | Halifax Truro St. John Not Stated Shelburne view top 100 |
| ARProvince /State | arprovince_state | text | NS ON NB Barbados MI view top 100 |
| ARCountry | arcountry | text | CAN USA BWI Not Stated n/a view top 100 |
| ARbirth | arbirth | text | Canada United States British West Indies n/a British Guiana view top 100 |
| ARplace | arplace | text | Windsor Truro Halifax Pictou St. John view top 100 |
| ARdate | ardate | calendar_date | 1916-08-10T00:00:00.000 1916-07-25T00:00:00.000 1916-07-28T00:00:00.000 1916-12-30T00:00:00.000 1916-08-14T00:00:00.000 view top 100 |