118th Battalion CEF

The 118th battalion was recruited in the north riding of Waterloo County and mobilized in Kitchener, Ontario, with a strength of 15 officers and 231 other ranks. The battalion embarked from Halifax on 26 January 1917, on the troop ship Scandinavian, and disembarked in the UK on 6 February.

118th Bn postcard - London.pdf (6.23 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