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Canadian Expeditionary
Force Study Group
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| Component: |
99th Canadian
Infantry Battalion |
| Active Dates: |
Canada November 5, 1915 - June
6, 1916
England June 8, 1916 - July 6, 1916 |
| Contributors: |
R. Laughton, |
| Theatre of Operations: |
Not an
active service battalion in France or Flanders
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| Major Battles /
Battle Honours: |
YPRES 1915, 1917;
Festubert 1917; Mount Sorrel; SOMME 1916, 1918;
Flers-Courcelette; Theipval; Ancre Heights; Arras 1917, 1918;
VIMY 1917; HILL 70; PASSCHENDAELE; AMIENS; Scarpe 1918;
HINDENBURG LINE; Canal du Nord; CAMBRAI 1918; PURSUIT TO MONS;
France and Flanders 1915-1918.
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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 99th
Infantry Battalion was organized on December 22, 1915 with a
strength of 825 and disbanded on September 15, 1920. Stewart
also reports that the unit was broken up and absorbed by the 4th
Reserve Battalion to provide reinforcements for the Canadians
Corps in the field. Both Meek and Love report that the 99th was
absorbed by the 35th Battalion and Stewart notes the 35th was
absorbed into the 4th Reserve Battalion. Love does note that the
4th Reserve Battalion did have a Western Ontario affiliation and
that it trained the 35th and 99th. Men of the 4th Reserve
Battalion later found themselves in the 1st, 18th and 47th
Infantry Battalions in France.
Nicholson does not report on the 99th Infantry Battalion.
From Library and
Archives Canada:
There are files
available from LAC that related to the 99th Canadian Infantry
Battalion (link).
There is no on-line written text regarding the unit.
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Sub-Components:
War Diary Entries:
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none available
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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:
not available
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