31st Battalion CEF

The 31st battalion was recruited in Edmonton, Calgary, Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Red Deer, Wetaskiwin, Youngstown, Claresholm and Pincher Creek and mobilized in Calgary, Alberta, with a strength of 37 officers and 1122 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Quebec on 17 May 1915, on the troop ship Carpathia, and disembarked in the UK on 38 May, and arrived in France on 18 September.