persons_british

Canadian officers

Canadian Army	Royal Canadian Navy	Royal Canadian Air Force
Canadian Army	Royal Canadian Navy (RCN)	Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF)
	Royal Canadian Naval Reserve (RCNR)
	Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve (RCNVR)
	Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service (WRCNS)

Sources
For all Canadian (& British) servicemen the primary (available) sources have been:

Canadian

The Canadian Who's Who 1961-1963
Who's Who in Canada 1966-1968
Defence Forces List Canada, November 1939
The Canadian Navy List, May 1945
Canadian Army Routine Orders, Vol. 9 (Jan.-June 1944) & Vol. 12 (July-Dec. 1945)

British

Who's Who 1897-1998 (CD-ROM version)
Who's Who 1946, 1953, 1968, 1990
The Monthly Army List, June 1933, January 1937 & January 1939
The Half-Yearly Army List, January 1946 [reprinted as: Services of British Army Officers &cc 1939-1945 (1999)]
The Quarterly Army List, April 1941, April 1944 & April 1946
The Army List, August 1955
The Army Gradation List, February 1957 & February 1967
The Navy List, 1929 (Aug.), 1931 (Febr.), 1932 (Sept.), 1934 (Jan.), 1935 (July), 1937 (Febr.), 1939 (Aug.) & 1942 (Aug.) & 1943 (Febr., June, Aug., Oct., Dec.) & 1944 (Apr., June) & 1945 (July) & 1946 (Apr./July)
The Navy List of Retired Officers, together with the Emergency List, July 1944 & 1959
The Naval Who's Who 1917 [repr.: 1981]
The Air Force List, April 1954

Possible additional sources and/or literature are given, in short, at the end of each individual biography. Following are some detailed descriptions:

[Boatner]	Mark M. Boatner III. Biographical dictionary of World War II (Novato, CA : Presidio Press, 1996)
[CB]	Current biography : who's news and why (New York : H.W. Wilson Company, 1940s) [annual editions]
[D-Day enc]	David G. Chandler, James Lawton Collins, Jr. (eds.). The D-Day encyclopedia (Oxford : Helicon, 1994)
[DNB]	Dictionary of national biography (London : Oxford University Press, 1908-...) [one volume every ten years]