48th Battalion CEF

The 48th battalion was recruited in Victoria, Prince Rupert, Kamloops, Okanagan Valley, Revelstoke, Nelson, Fernie and Cranbrook and mobilized in Victoria, British Columbia, with a strength of 38 officers and 1020 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Montreal on 1 July 1915, on the troop ship Grampian, and disembarked in the UK on 10 July.

48th Bn postcard - Mallery Laurence.pdf (2.2 MB)

48th Bn ship postcard - Mallery Laurence.pdf (5.51 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