From Internet Reference
Noted Below:
The 50th Infantry Battalion (Calgary Regiment) CEF, was
organized hard on the heels of the 31st. It was authorized on 15
December 1914, and began recruiting in earnest in January 1915.
Its organization would have been complete much earlier had it
not been required to send two drafts of 255 men each to England
in June and September 1915 as reinforcements for the 10th
Battalion. That Battalion had been in action since February
1915, and had suffered losses of nearly 600 killed and wounded
in only one battle, Second Ypres in mid-April 1915. The
reinforcements would see no further service with the 50th.
The 50th Battalion sailed from Halifax on 27 October 1915,
arriving in England on 4 November. It was allocated to the 10th
Brigade, 4th Canadian Division, and served in the trenches of
France and Flanders from 11 August 1916 until the Armistice on
11 November 1918.
What follows is the nominal roll or "sailing list"
of the 50th Battalion, including the rolls of the two
reinforcement drafts. A sailing list was published for each unit
proceeding overseas, and included information about every
member, including regimental number, rank, and name as well as
details about his next of kin, country of birth and date and
place of enlistment. They contain a wealth of information for
the genealogist. However, a certain measure of caution is
advised, for the information was supplied by the individual,
usually from memory, and recorded by a clerk who was writing
what he heard, sometimes in chaotic conditions, and who may not
have been familiar with the spelling of the name of every
locality in Great Britain and Canada.
