18th Battalion CEF

the 18th battalion was recruited in London, Windsor, Woodstock, Chatham, St Thomas, Strathroy, Stratford, Galt, Guelph, Walkerville and Goderich, and mobilized in London, Ontario, with a strength of 36 officers and 1081 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 18 April 1915, on the troop ship Grampian, and disembarked in the UK on 28 April, and arrived in France on 15 September.