98th Battalion CEF

The 98th battalion was recruited in Lincoln and Welland Counties and mobilized in Welland, Ontario, with a strength of 36 officers and 1050 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 16 July 1916, on the troop ship Lapland, and disembarked in the UK on 25 July.

98th Bn postcard - ICR express.pdf (3.02 MB)

Various

Ley and Lois Smith War, Memory and Popular Culture Research Collection - The University of Western Ontario - London, Ontario

Contemporary Accounts

First World War