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Canadian Expeditionary
Force Study Group
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| Component: |
26th Battalion |
| Active Dates: |
March 15, 1915 - September 5, 1920 |
| Contributors: |
rlaughton; Gaudet |
| Theatre of Operations: |
France and Flanders |
| Major Battles / Battle Honours: |
Mount Sorrel; Somme 1916, 1918; Flers-de
Courcelette; Thiepval; Ancre Heights; Arras 1917, 1918; Vimy
1917; Arleux; Scarpe 1917, 1918; Hill 70; Ypres 1917;
Passchendaele; Amiens; 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:
| The 26th Infantry Battalion
served in the 5th Infantry Brigade of the 2nd Canadian
Division. It's initial strength was 1,108 men.
The exploits of the 26th are mentioned in
Nicholson's text in the "Battles of the Somme" during
the period of July to November 1916 (Chapter VI pages 170, 179,
182) and again in the "Battle of Passchendaele" in
October - November 1917 (Chapter X page 324).
During the "Canada's Hundred
Days" Livesay reports (page 49) on the 26th significant
loses (primarily officers) at Snipe Copse, south of Marcelcave
on or about August 8th, 1918. The battalion survived when
Lt. Col. A. E. G. McKenzie rallied the troops (including the
cooks and batmen) and led them into battle. There are
number of other references to the 26th New Brunswick in the
later pages of that text, many detailing heroic exploits of the
men at all levels, even the Chaplain. |
Sub-Components:
Primary References:
| 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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| 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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| 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) |
Secondary References:
| MacGowan, Heckbert & O'Leary; 1995. New Brunswick's
"Fighting 26th"" A History of The 26th New Brunswick
Battalion, C.E.F. , Tribune Press; ISBN: 1-896270-02-6. |
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