229th Battalion CEF

The 229th battalion was recruited in Moose Jaw, Rouleau, Gull Lake, Elbow, Melville, Kincaid and Indian Head, and mobilized at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, with a strength of 17 officers and 526 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 18 April 1917, on the troop ship Northland, and disembarked in the UK on 29 April.

229th Bn postcard - The Bravest The Best.pdf (3.82 Mo)

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

Contemporary Accounts

First World War