42nd Battalion CEF

The 42nd battalion was recruited and mobilized in Montreal, Quebec, with a strength of 40 officers and 978 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Montreal on 10 June 1915, on the troop ship Hesperian, and disembarked in the UK on 19 June, and arrived in France on 9 September.

42nd Bn postcard - Censor.pdf (3.26 MB)

42nd Bn postcard - Should auld.pdf (4 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