116th Battalion CEF

The 116th battalion was recruited in Ontario County and mobilized in Uxbridge, Ontario , with a strength of 36 officers and 948 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 24 July 1916, on the troop ship Olympic, and disembarked in the UK on 31 July, and arrived in France on 13 February 1917.

116th Bn postcard - Underwood - French.pdf (3.47 MB)

Various

Ley and Lois Smith War, Memory and Popular Culture Research Collection - The University of Western Ontario - London, Ontario

Contemporary Accounts

First World War