56th Battalion CEF

The 56th battalion was recruited and mobilized in Calgary, Alberta, with a strength of 40 officers and 1070 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 23 March 1916, on the troop ship Baltic, and disembarked in the UK on 8 April.

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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