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Canadian Expeditionary
Force Study Group
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| Component: |
72nd Infantry Battalion |
| Active Dates: |
1915 - 1920 |
| Theatre of Operations: |
Canada: September
10, 1915 - April 24, 1916
England: May 5, 1916 - August 12, 1916
France: August 13, 1916 - May 5, 1919
Canada: returned June 6, 1919 Olympic |
| Major Battles /
Battle Honours: |
YPRES 1915, 1917;
FESTUBERT 1915; SOMME 1916; Ancre
Heights; Ancre 1916; Arras 1917,
1918; VIMY 1917; PASSCHENDAELE; AMIENS;
Scarpe 1918; DROCOURT-QUEANT; Hindenburg Line; CANAL DU NORD;
VALENCIENNES; Sambre; FRANCE AND FLANDERS 1915-1918. |
| 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 72nd
Battalion served in France and Flanders with the 12th Infantry
Brigade of the 4th Canadian Division from August 13, 1916 until
the armistice. Meek and Love are in agreement. PROBLEM:
I have been using Battle Honours reported by Stewart and not by
Meek for all of the summary pages. I note here that Meek has
different Battle Honours for the 72nd (perhaps for many
others!). I also followed the format that if it is in CAPITALS
it can be on the unit's colours. Note that Sambre is in CAPS in
Meek and not Stewart and that Stewart has 1915 listings when the
unit was still in Canada.
Nicholson reports on the 72nd Infantry Battalion on the following pages (see the Matrix
Nicholson Transcriptions):
| 4th Division 135 |
| Note re "Tommy Cooker" 189n |
| Raids 189, 234 |
| Passchendaele 321 |
| Amiens 406, 416-417 |
| D-Q Line 437 |
| Hindenburg Line to Cambrai 434, 436,
446, 450 |
From Library and
Archives Canada Textual Records:
The 72nd Canadian Infantry Battalion was
organized in September 1915 under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel
J.A. Clark under authorization published in General Order 103a of 15
August 1915. The battalion recruited and mobilized in Vancouver.
The battalion embarked at Halifax on 25 April 1916 aboard EMPRESS OF
BRITAIN, disembarking in England on 5 May 1916. Its strength was 34
officers and 1094 other ranks. The battalion arrived in France on 12
August 1916, becoming part of the 4th Canadian Division, 12th Canadian
Infantry Brigade. It was later reinforced by the 24th Canadian Reserve
Battalion. The battalion returned to England on 6 May 1919,
disembarked in Canada on 13 June 1919, was demobilized on 19 June
1919, and was disbanded by General Order 149 of 15 September 1920.
The battalion supported a brass and a pipe band. The battalion
published "The Kilt" between 27 November 1915 and 15 April
1916.
The 72nd Canadian Infantry Battalion was perpetuated by The Seaforth
Highlanders of Canada.
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Sub-Components:
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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:
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