47th Battalion CEF
The 47th battalion was recruited in New Westminster, Vancouver and Victoria and mobilized in New Westminster, British Columbia, with a strength of 36 officers and 1115 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Montreal on 13 November 1915, on the troop ship Missanabie, and disembarked in the UK on 22 November 1915, and arrived in France on 10 August 1916.
47th Bn CEF postcard.pdf
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47th Bn group.pdf
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47th Bn group - Towlan, Walter.pdf
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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