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Canadian Expeditionary
Force Study Group
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| Component: |
20th Battalion |
| Active Dates: |
Canada: October 1914 to May
1`4, 1915
England: May 24, 1915 to September 14, 1915
France: September 15, 1915 to April 5, 1919 |
| Theatre of Operations: |
France and Flanders |
| Major Battles / Battle Honours: |
Mount Sorrel; Somme 1916, 1918; Flers-Courcelette;
Thiepval; Ancre Heights; Arras 1917, 1918; Vimy 1917; Hill 70;
Ypres 1917; Passchendaele; Amiens; Scarpe 1918; Drocourt-Quéant;
Hindenburg Line; Canal du Nord; Cambrai 1918; Pursuit to Mons. |
| Location of War Diaries: |
 | Library and Archives Canada (WD
Link) |
| CEFSG War Diary Transcription
(in progress = IP) |
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Background:
| Stewart reports that the battalion served in
France and Flanders with the
4th Infantry Brigade of the 2nd Canadian Division from September
15, 1915 until the Armistice. This information is confirmed by
Love. Meek notes the battalion was recruited in Central
and Northern Ontario, with Mobilization HQ in Toronto. Active
dates reported by Meek are noted above.
Nicholson reports on the 20th Infantry
Battalion on the following pages (see the Matrix
Nicholson Transcriptions):
Canada 110: raising the 2nd Division
St. Eloi Craters 144: the attack on craters 2 and 3 in April
1916
Vimy 233: raids in preparation for the attack in January 1917
Hill 70 288, 291: the capture of Hill 70 in August 1917
Cambrai 428: through the Hindenburg Line to Cambrai in August
1918
Arras-Cambrai 459: the end of the battle in October 1918
From
Library and Archives Canada:
There is no record
posted for the 20th Infantry Battalion at the LAC site and
therefore the notation for the 4th Infantry Brigade is included
here:
The 4th
Canadian Infantry Brigade was part of the 2nd Canadian Division
and was formed from Battalions recruited in Ontario. The brigade
included the 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st Battalions and was
commanded successively by Colonel S.J.A. Dennison (May 1915 to
June 1915), and Brigadier-Generals L.G.F.M. Lord Brooke (June
1915 to November 1915), R. Rennie (November 1915 to September
1918), G.E. McCuaig (September 1918 to February 1919), and R.
Rennie (February 1919 to May 1919). The 4th Canadian Infantry
Brigade was demobilized in May 1919.
The MIKAN3 database at Library and
Archives Canada does have a number of other links related to the
20th Infantry Battalion. These are located here:
20th
Infantry Battalion Collection
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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.
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| Stewart, C. H. 1970. "Overseas" The
Lineages and Insignia of the Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914
-1919. Little & Stewart, Mission Press, Toronto, Canada.
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| 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.
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| Meek, John F. 1971. "Over the Top!
The Canadian Infantry in the First World War. Privately Published,
Orangeville Ontario Canada.
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