242nd Battalion CEF

The 242nd battalion was recruited in all provinces except Manitoba and Prince Edward Island, and mobilized in Montreal, Quebec, with a strength of 44 officers and 1006 other ranks. Originally organized as the 242nd Pioneer Battalion, it became a Forestry Battalion on 1 October 1916. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 24 November 1916, on the troop ship Mauritania, and disembarked in the UK on 30 November.