159th Battalion CEF

The 159th battalion was recruited in the districts of Nipissing and Sudbury, and mobilized in Haileybury, Ontario, with a strength of 32 officers and 972 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 1 November, 1916, on the troop ship Empress of Britain, and disembarked in the UK on 11 November.

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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