25th Battalion CEF

The 25th battalion was recruited in Nova Scotia (Halifax, Sydney, Yarmouth, Amherst and Truro) and mobilized in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with a strength of 42 officers and 1081 other ranks. The battalion embarked from from Halifax on 20 May 1915 on the troop ship Saxonia, and disembarked in the UK on 29 May, and arrived in France 15 September.