221st Battalion CEF

The 221st battalion was recruited and mobilized in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with a strength of 23 officers and 596 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 18 April, 1917, on the troop ship Ausonia, and disembarked in the UK on 29 April.

221st Bn postcard - Maple Tree.pdf (2.71 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