52nd Battalion CEF

The 52nd battalion was recruited in Port Arthur, Kenora, Fort Francis, Fort William and Dryden and mobilized in Port Arthur, Ontario, with a strength of 40 officers and 1032 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Saint John on 23 November 1915, on the troop ship California, and disembarked in the UK on 2 December, and arrived in France on 21 February 1916.