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Canadian Expeditionary
Force Study Group
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| Component: |
159th Infantry
Battalion |
| Theatre of Operations: |
Canada and England
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| Major Battles /
Battle Honours: |
YPRES 1915;
FESTUBERT 1915; SOMME 1918; ST. QUENTIN; BAPAUME 1918;
HINDENBURG LINE; Epehy; ST. QUENTIN CANAL; BEAUREVOIR;
CAMBRAI 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 159th
Infantry Battalion ("Algonquins") was organized in
Haileybury, Ontario in 1915 with a strength of 972 men.
The battalion did not serve in France or Flanders but was
absorbed by the 8th Reserve Battalion to provide reinforcements
for the Canadian Corps in the field. Meek reports that the
unit was operational in Canada from December 1, 1915 to November
1, 1916 and in England from November 11, 1916 to January 20,
1917. Love reports only that the unit was absorbed by the
8th Reserve Battalion but does not report that it was trained by
the 8th Reserve Battalion.
There is no report on this unit in Nicholson.
From Library and
Archives Canada there is only the one reference of the 159th
Infantry Battalion in the fonds
of R. H. James. There is no on-line information.
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Sub-Components:
War Diary Entries:
| there are no war diaries for this unit
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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. |
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