Sailing to war

This booklet, printed on board the ship, would not have been out of place on any peacetime sailing. However, the men and women of the 86th Machine Gun Battalion, the 224th Forestry Battalion, No. 8 Stationary Hospital, and the 4th Division Ammunition Sub-Park were going to war, not on vacation.

First Class Passengers per R.M.S. "Adriatic" (White Star Line), From Halifax, 22nd May, 1916

White Star.pdf (15.49 MB)

booklet, 8 pages, 13.7cm x 19.8cm

War, Memory and Popular Culture Archives - The University of Western Ontario - London, Ontario

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First World War