8th Battalion CEF

The 8th battalion was organized in Camp Valcartier and composed of recruits from Winnipeg and 96th Lake Superior regiment of the active militia, with a strength of 47 officers and 1106 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Quebec City on 1 October 1914, on the troop ship Franconia, and disembarked in the UK on 14 October, and arrived in France 13 February 1915.