58th Battalion CEF

The 58th battalion was recruited in Toronto, Aurora, Hamilton, St. Catharines, Milton, Parry Sound, Owen Sound, Whitby, Brampton, Cayuga, Brantford, Simcoe, Niagara Falls and Dundas and mobilized in Niagara-on-the-lake, Ontario, with a strength of 40 officers and 1091 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 22 November 1915, on the troop ship Saxonia, and disembarked in the UK on 30 November, and arrived in France on 20 February 1916.