79th Battalion CEF

The 79th battalion was recruited in Manitoba and mobilized in Brandon, Manitoba, with a strength of 37 officers and 1095 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 25 April 1916, on the troop ship Lapland, and disembarked in the UK on 5 May.

79th Bn CEF postcard.pdf (4.12 MB)

79th Bn postcard - trio.pdf (1.28 MB)

79th Bn postcard - Richardson, Charles.pdf (4.23 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