5th Battalion CEF

The 5th battalion was organized in Camp Valcartier and composed of recruits from the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, with a strength of 44 officers and 1094 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Quebec City on 26 September 1914, on the troop ship Lapland, and disembarked in the UK on 17 October, and arrived in France on 13 February 1915.