9th Battalion CEF

The 9th battalion was organized in Camp Valcartier and composed of recruits from Edmonton, Alberta, with a strength of 49 officers and 1118 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Quebec on 1 October 1914, on the troop ship Zeeland, and disembarked in the UK on 18 October. The battalion became a reserve battalion on 29 April 1915, and was absorbed by the 56th, 63rd, 66th and part of the 82nd battalions.