109th Battalion CEF

The 109th battalion was recruited in Victoria and Haliburton Counties and mobilized in Lindsay, Ontario, with a strength of 35 officers and 775 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 24 July 1916, on the troop ship Olympic, and disembarked in the UK on 31 July.

109th Bn postcard - Kingston.pdf (3.14 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