239th Battalion CEF

The 239th Battalion was recruited throughout Canada amongst experienced railwaymen, and mobilized at Valcartier, Quebec, with a strength of 738 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 20 December 1916, on the troop ship Olympia, and disembarked in the UK on 26 December.

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