157th Battalion CEF

The 157th battalion was recruited in Simcoe county and mobilized in Barrie, Ontario with a strength of 32 officers and 966 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 18 October, 1916 on the troop ship Cameronia, and disembarked in the UK on 28 October.

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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