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Canadian Expeditionary
Force Study Group
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| Component: |
193rd Infantry Battalion |
| Active Dates: |
1916 - 1920 |
| Theatre of Operations: |
Canada: January 27, 1916 - October
13t, 1916
England: October 19, 1916 - January 20, 1917
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| Major Battles /
Battle Honours: |
Arras 1917, 1918; Ypres 1917;
AMIENS, HINDENBURG LINE; 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 193rd "Cumberland
Highlanders" was organized in Truro, Nova Scotia in
1916. The unit was not active in France as it was absorbed
by the 17th Reserve Battalion to provide reinforcements to the
Canadian Corps in the field. That information is confirmed
by Love. Meek adds only that it was active in England as
well as Canada.
There is no mention of the 193rd Battalion
in Nicholson or Livesay.
There are 14 records on
file at Library and Archives Canada for the 193rd Battalion but
none of these are available on-line:
On December 5, 2009 CEFSG member Canach
provided the following additional information regarding the
193rd Battalion:
A little more on the 193rd. They were recruited in the six north-eastern counties of
Nova Scotia - Pictou, Colchester, Cumberland, Hants, Antigonish and
Guysborough. Initially they trained as detachments in their home counties with Truro as HQ.
until 23 May /16 when they mobilized with the other 4 battalions of the Highland Brigade at
Aldershot, Nova Scotia.
A couple of months after arrival in England, late December, they were broken up with 300 OR and 15 officers going to the 185th Bn. Cape Breton Highlanders.
When the 185th was dispersed in late February 1918, 100 men went to each of the following
Bns.: 25th, 85th, 58th and RCR - the remainder going to 17th Reserve Bn.
Of the 100 men to the 85th, 46 of them started out with the 193rd. 34 of the 46 were casualties.
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Sub-Components:
| none known, unit broken up and
dispersed |
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War Diary Entries:
| none - did not serve as a unit in France
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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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