225th Battalion CEF

The 225th battalion was recruited in Fernie, Cranbrook, Nelson and Grand Forks, and mobilized in Vernon, British Columbia, with a strength of 20 officers and 427 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 26 January 1917, on the troop ship Grampian, and disembarked in the UK on 6 February. 

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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