From: amheater@BYE.SAILORcogeco.ca   
      
   "William Yeo"   
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   > In article ,   
   > "Toni"  wrote:   
   >   
   >> own.  It was a query to the NS Rootsweb board.  Found on a gravestone as:   
   >> <   
   >> Bombadier  RCCA  CEF > under his name.  When non-military types tried to   
   >> answer, I thought I'd ask here.  I will ask if the one 'C' could possibly   
   >> be   
   >> a 'G'.  Seems the most plausible, as long as the unit was around during   
   >> WWl.   
   >   
   > I have found at least two other gravestone references to RCCA as well,   
   > so it seems unlikely that THAT many families would allow a careless typo   
   > on their loved ones' tombstones.   
   >   
   > One was listed as 'Gnr' and the other as 'Gunner', both CEF, so the   
   > artillery angle fits, though.   
      
   Agreed, it cannot be an on-going error.   
      
   I've never heard of the < Royal Canadian Company of Artillery > though I   
   most certainly am not up on all that sort of thing from WWl.  One would   
   think though, that it would have a familar 'ring to it', as I do watch a   
   great deal about WWl on the History Ch. and have read a fair bit, as well as   
   belong to many genealogical boards/mailing lists etc ...  No one has ever   
   mentioned this RCCA previously.   Has anyone else heard the full name   
   before?   
      
   The person who gave her this answer is an RAF Brat and was PR man for the   
   North Novas.  [Again, something I didn't know .. the PR man says the North   
   Novas is Canada's largest Militia Batt.]   
      
   Toni   
      
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