45th battalion CEF
The 45th battalion was recruited in Brandon, Portage la Prairie, Winnipeg, Virden, Souris, Minnedosa and Dauphin and mobilized in Brandon, Manitoba, with a strength of 38 officers and 1119 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 17 March 1916, on the troop ship Lapland, and disembarked in the UK on 25 March.
45th Bn CEF postcard.pdf
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45th Bn postcard - Namur.pdf
(2.99 Mo)
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Ley and Lois Smith War, Memory and Popular Culture Research Collection - The University of Western Ontario - London, Ontario
First World War