253rd Battalion CEF

The 253rd Battalion was recruited in Kingston, Cornwall and Cobalt, and mobilized in Kingston, Ontario, with a strength of 17 officers and 461 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 29 April 1917, on the troop ship Olympic, and disembarked in the UK on 7 May. 

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