222nd Battalion CEF

The 222nd battalion was recruited in the electoral divisions of Selkirk, Provencher, Lisgar, Macdonald and Souris, and mobilized in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with a strength of 32 officers and 993 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 14 November, 1916, on the troop ship Olympic, and disembarked in the UK on 20 November.