248th Battalion CEF

The 248th battalion was recruited in Grey County and Toronto, and mobilized in Owen Sound, Ontario, with a strength of 13 officers and 259 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 2 June 1917, on the troop ship Olympic, and disembarked in the UK on 9 June.

248th Bn postcard - Remember.pdf (3.03 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