86th Battalion CEF
The 86th battalion was recruited in Hamilton, Welland and Dundas and mobilized in Hamilton, Ontario, with a strength of 36 officers and 1072 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 22 May 1916, on the troop ship Adriatic, and disembarked in the UK on 29 May.
86th Bn CEF postcard.pdf
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86th Bn postcard - Wells, George.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