14th Battalion

Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group

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Component:

14th Infantry Battalion, Royal Montreal Regiment

Active Dates:

August 1914 - September 1920

Contributors:

rlaughton

Theatre of Operations:

France and Flanders

Major Battles / Battle Honours:

Ypres 1915, 1817; Gravenstafel; St. Julien; Festubert 1915; Mount Sorrel; Somme 1916; Pozières; Thiepval; Ancre Heights; Arras 1917, 1918; Vimy 1917; Arleux; Scarpe 1917, 1918; Hill 70; Passchendaele; Amiens; Drocourt-Quéant; Hindenburg Line; Canal du Nord; Pursuit to Mons.

Location of War Diaries:

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

Background:

The 14th Canadian Infantry Battalion served overseas with the 3rd Infantry Brigade of the 1st Canadian Division from February 15, 1915 until the Armistice.

Forum Posting: 14th Battalion, Royal Montreal Regiment

"The Archives CD Books Project www.archivecdbooks.ca has reproduced in pdf format the history of The Royal Montreal Regiment, 14th Battalion, C. E. F. 1914-1925

A complete and detailed history of the 14th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force starting with it's formation in August 1914 from the: 1st Regiment (Canadian Grenadier Guards), 3rd Regiment (Victoria Rifles) and 65th Regiment (Carabiniers de Mont-Royal) through to its reorganization in 1920 when it was combined with the Westmount Rifles to become The Royal Montreal Regiment. Thus, this is a history of the activities of the 14th Battalion through the Great War of 1914 - 18, in which it took an active and decisive part."

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

Ypres 62, 71, 75
Mount Sorrel 151, 153
Kenora Trench 176, 178
Vimy Ridge 253
Morgemont Wood 400, 402
Cagincourt 436
Bantigny 452

From Library and Archives Canada:

there is no posting

Sub-Components:

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)
	The Royal Montreal Regiment (14th Battalion C.E.F.) 1914-1925 (on CD)

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