16th Battalion CEF

The 16th battalion was organized at Camp Valcartier and composed of recruits from Victoria, Vancouver, Winnipeg and Hamilton, with a strength of 47 officers and 1111 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Quebec on 30 September 1914, on the troop ship Andania, and disembarked in the UK on 14 October, and arrived in France on 7 February 1915.