196th Battalion CEF
The 196th battalion was recruited in Brandon College, the universities of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, and mobilized in Winnipeg, Alberta, with a strength of 32 officers and 974 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 1 November 1916, on the troop ship Southland, and disembarked in the UK on 11 November.
196th Bn postcard - Rouen.pdf
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196th Bn postcard - Fife, Walter.pdf
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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