171st Battalion CEF

The 171st Battalion was recruited in the eastern townships of Quebec, and mobilized in Quebec City, with a strength of 27 officers and 575 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 24 November, 1916, on the troop ship Mauritania, and disembarked in the UK on 30 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