85th Battalion CEF
The 85th battalion was recruited in Nova Scotia, and mobilized in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with a strength of 34 officers and 1001 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 13 October 1916, on the troop ship Olympic, and disembarked in the UK on 19 October, and arrived in France on 11 February 1917.
85th Bn postcard - Motto.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