20th Battalion CEF

The 20th battalion was recruited in in Aurora, Milton, Parry Sound, Owen Sound, Whitby, Barrie, Brampton, York, Simcoe, Niagara Falls, Dundas and Sudbury, and mobilized in Toronto, Ontario, with a strength of 35 officers and 1100 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Montreal on 15 May 1915, on the troop ship Megnatic, and disembarked in the UK on 24 May, and arrived in France on 14 September.