72nd Battalion CEF

The 72nd battalion was recruited and mobilized in Vancouver, British Columbia, with a strength of 34 officers and 1094 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 25 April 1916, on the troop ship Empress of Britain, and disembarked in the UK on 5 May, and arrived in France 12 August.

72nd Bn camp.pdf (10.59 MB)

72nd Bn postcard - Canteen Staff.pdf (2.48 MB)

Various

Ley and Lois Smith War, Memory and Popular Culture Research Collection - The University of Western Ontario - London, Ontario

Contemporary Accounts

First World War