78th battalion CEF
The 78th battalion was recruited in the Winnipeg district and mobilized in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with a strength of 37 officers and 1097 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 22 May 1916, on the troop ship Empress of Britain, and disembarked in the UK on 29 May, and arrived in France on 12 August.
78th Bn postcard - HQ.pdf
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78th Bn postcard - Winnipeg.pdf
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78th Bn postcard.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