117th Battalion CEF
The 117th battalion was recruited in the Eastern townships and mobilized in Sherbrooke, Ontario, with a strength of 36 officers and 856 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 14 August 1916, on the troop ship Empress of Britain, and disembarked in the UK on 24 August.
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Ley and Lois Smith War, Memory and Popular Culture Research Collection - The University of Western Ontario - London, Ontario
First World War