26th Infantry Bn, CEF

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26th Infantry Bn, CEF





Posted by Michael M. O‘Leary on July 24, 1999 at 11:24:20:



26th Infantry Battalion, C.E.F.

Authorized by Canadian Army General Order 36 of 15 March 1915

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

Service:
Canada - 2 Nov 1914 to 13 Jun 1915
England - 24 Jun 1915 to 15 Sep 1915
France - 16 Sep 1915 to 10 Apr 1919
Canada - Returned aboard "OLYMPIC" 11 May 1919

Officers Commanding:
Lieutenant-Colonel J.L. McAvity - 15 Jun 1915 to 29 May 1916

Lieutenant-Colonel A.E.G. McKenzie, D.S.O. - 29 May 1916 to 2 Jul 1917

Lieutenant-Colonel W.R. Brown, D.S.O. - 2 Jul 1917 to 4 Oct 1917

Lieutenant-Colonel A.E.G. McKenzie, D.S.O. - 4 Oct 1917 to 29 Sep 1918

Major C.G. Porter, D.S.O. - 28 Aug 1918 to 5 Sep 1918

Lieutenant-Colonel W.R. Brown, D.S.O. - 5 Sep 1918 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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