240th Battalion CEF

The 240th battalion was recruited in Renfrew and Lanark counties, and mobilized in Renfrew, Quebec, with a strength of 14 officers and 375 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 4 May 1917, on the troop ship Megantic, and disembarked in the UK on 14 May.

Postcard, 13.9 cm x 8.6 cm
Ley and Lois Smith War, Memory and Popular Culture Research Collection - The University of Western Ontario - London, Ontario
First World War