Photographic Record and Souvenir of the Canadian Grenadier Guards Overseas Battalion "Eighty Seventh" (1916)
Author: Col. F. S. Meighen O.C.
Keywords: 87th Battalion; Grenadier Guards; Canada; War; Militia; CEF; CEFSG; Canadian Expediotionary Force; World War One; WWI; WW1; rlaughton; laughton
Publisher: Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group
Year: 1916
Language: English
Book contributor: Richard Laughton on behalf of Lieut. William Gear (C.G.G. Retired)
Collection: opensource
Description
This document is a rare photographic and text record of the 87th Infantry Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, as it was organized in 1916. The 87th Battalion served in the 11th Infantry Brigade of the 4th Canadian Division. Included in the document are photographs of all of the Staff Officers, Company Officers, NCOs, The Band, Machine Gun Section, Signalling, Pioneers and all 16 Platoons. Each platoon member is identified by their regimental number. Also included is the nominal roll of the NCOs and men of the Grenadier Guards as they were in the 1st Contingent, those with the 23rd Battalion and the 60th Battalion.
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| Identifier: | 87thBnCEF |
| Mediatype: | texts |
| Licenseurl: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ |
| Coverage: | Canada |
| Identifier-access: | http://www.archive.org/details/87thBnCEF |
| Identifier-ark: | ark:/13960/t3ws8kc13 |
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