106th Battalion CEF

The 106th battalion was recruited in Cumberland, Colchester, Picton and Antigonish counties and in Cape Breton and mobilized in Truro, Nova Scotia, with a strength of 36 officers and 1009 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 16 July 1916, on the troop ship Empress of Britain, and disembarked in the UK on 25 July.