179th Battalion CEF

The 179th battalion was recruited and mobilized in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with a strength of 32 officers and 890 ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 4 October, 1916, on the troop ship Saxonia, and disembarked in the UK on 13 October.

179th Bn field postcard - Pointen, Percy.pdf (4.38 MB)

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Ley and Lois Smith War, Memory and Popular Culture Research Collection - The University of Western Ontario - London, Ontario

Contemporary Accounts

First World War