197th Battalion CEF

The 197th battalion was recruited in Western Canada amongst men of Scandinavian origin and mobilized in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with a strength of 9 officers and 306 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 26 January 1917, on the troop ship Scandinavian, and disembarked in the UK on 6 February.

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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