2nd Infantry Brigade

Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group

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Active Dates:

Contributors:

rlaughton

Theatre of Operations:

Major Battles/ Battle Honours:

Location of War Diaries:

	Library and Archives Canada (WD Link)
	CEFSG War Diary Transcription (in progress = IP)

Background:

Library and Archives Canada:

The 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade was part of the 1st Canadian Division and was formed from Battalions recruited mostly in Western Canada. The brigade included the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 10th Battalions and was commanded successively by Brigadier-Generals A.W. Currie (September 1914 to September 1915), L.J. Lipsett (September 1915 to June 1916), F.O.W. Loomis (July 1916 to December 1917), J.F.L. Embury (January 1918 to March 1918), F.O.W. Loomis (March 1918 to September 1918) Lieutenant Colonel W.F. Gilson (September 1918 to October 1918) and R.P. Clark October 1918 to May 1919). The 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade was demobilized in May 1919.

Nicholson reports on the 1st Infantry Battalion on the following pages (see the Matrix Nicholson Transcriptions):

Formation 22
Training in England 34, 36
Ypres 56-58, 61-63, 71-73, 76-77, 82-83
Festubert 99-103
Mount Sorrel 150
Thiepval Ridge 177-179
Zwölfer-Graben 253-254
Arleux Loop 270-272
Hill 70 287-291
Passchendaele 325-326
Amiens 402, 412
D-Q Line 434-437

Sub-Components:

2nd Infantry Brigade (WD Link)

	2nd Trench Mortar Battery
	5th Battalion (Western Cavalry), Mobilized at Valcartier PQ
	7th Battalion (1st British Columbia Regiment), Mobilized at Valcartier PQ IP (Thierens)
	8th Battalion (90th Rifles), Mobilized at Valcartier PQ
	10th Battalion (Canadians), Mobilized at Valcartier PQ IP (Leroux)

Primary References:

	Nicholson, G. W. L. 1962. Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War: Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919. Queens Printer and Controller of Stationary, Ottawa, Canada.
	Stewart, C. H. 1970. "Overseas" The Lineages and Insignia of the Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914 -1919. Little & Stewart, Mission Press, Toronto, Canada.

Secondary References:

	Love, D. W. 1999. "A Call to Arms" The Organization and Administration of Canada's Military in World War One. Bunker to Bunker Books, Winnipeg & Calgary, Canada.
	Livesay, J. F. B. 1919. Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - Nov. 11, 1918. Thomas Allen, Toronto. (Available on the Internet as an Archive Download)

Internet References:

Library and Archives Canada - Infantry Historical Records

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