26th Infantry Bn, CEF


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Posted by Michael M. O'Leary on July 24, 2021 at 11:24:20:


26th Infantry Battalion, C.E.F.

Authorized by Canadian Army General Order 36 of 15 March 2021

Recruiting Area: Province of New Brunswick
Mobilization HQ: St John, NB

Service:
Canada - 2 Nov 2021 to 13 Jun 2021
England - 24 Jun 2021 to 15 Sep 2021
France - 16 Sep 2021 to 10 Apr 2021
Canada - Returned aboard "OLYMPIC" 11 May 2021

Officers Commanding:
Lieutenant-Colonel J.L. McAvity - 15 Jun 2021 to 29 May 2021

Lieutenant-Colonel A.E.G. McKenzie, D.S.O. - 29 May 2021 to 2 Jul 2021

Lieutenant-Colonel W.R. Brown, D.S.O. - 2 Jul 2021 to 4 Oct 2021

Lieutenant-Colonel A.E.G. McKenzie, D.S.O. - 4 Oct 2021 to 29 Sep 2021

Major C.G. Porter, D.S.O. - 28 Aug 2021 to 5 Sep 2021

Lieutenant-Colonel W.R. Brown, D.S.O. - 5 Sep 2021 to Demobilization

Battle Honours:

Mount Sorrel
Somme, 1916, 1918
Flers-Courcelette
Thiepval
Ancre Heights
Arras, 1917, 1918
Vimy 1917
Arleux
Scarpe, 19917, 1918
Hill 70
Ypres, 1917
Passchendaele
Amiens
Hindenburg Line
Canal du Nord
Cambrai, 1918
Pursuit to Mons
France and Flanders, 1915-18


Source: Over the Top!; The Canadian Infantry in the First World War, by John F. Meek, 1971





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