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Canadian Expeditionary
Force Study Group
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| Component: |
49th Infantry
Battalion |
| Active Dates: |
July 1, 1915 - September 15,
1920 |
| Theatre of Operations: |
Canada 1915
England 1915
France & Flanders 1915-1918
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| Major Battles /
Battle Honours: |
MOUNT SORREL;
SOMME 1916; FLERS-COURCELETTE; Ancre Heights; Arras 1917, 1918;
Vimy 1917; Hill 70; Ypres 1917; PASSCHENDAELE; AMIENS; SCARPE
1918; HINDENBURG LINE; Canal du Nord; PURSUIT TO MONS
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| 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 49th
Battalion arrived in France and Flanders with the 7th Infantry
Brigade of the 3rd Canadian Division on October 9, 1915 and
served until the Armistice. Love confirms that
information. Meek adds that the unit was organized in Edmonton
and served in Canada from January 4, 1915 until June 4, 1915 and
then in England from June 13, 1915 to October 9, 1915. The unit
returned to Canada in March 1919.
Nicholson reports on the 49th Infantry Battalion on the following pages (see the Matrix
Nicholson Transcriptions):
Mount Sorrel 151
Somme 171-172; 185
Passchendaele 321
Raids 281
and also lists a number of other
references.
From Library and
Archives Canada:
There is no summary
report, however there are a great number of items listed as
being available at the Archives in Ottawa, Canada. The
only on-line item is the War Diary.
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Sub-Components:
War Diary Entries:
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. |
Secondary References:
Internet References:
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