172nd Battalion CEF

The 172nd battalion was recruited in the Kamloops district and mobilized in Kamloops, British Columbia, with a strength of 31 officers and 972 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 25 October, 1916, on the troop ship Mauritania, and disembarked in the UK on 31 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