45th battalion CEF

The 45th battalion was recruited in Brandon, Portage la Prairie, Winnipeg, Virden, Souris, Minnedosa and Dauphin and mobilized in Brandon, Manitoba, with a strength of 38 officers and 1119 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 17 March 1916, on the troop ship Lapland, and disembarked in the UK on 25 March.