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Force Study Group
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| Component: |
39th Infantry Battalion |
| Active Dates: |
July 1, 1915 - September 15,
1920 |
| Theatre of Operations: |
Not an active
unit.
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| Major Battles /
Battle Honours: |
Mount Sorrel;
SOMME 1916; ARRAS 1917; HILL 70; 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
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Background:
| Stewart reports that the 39th
Infantry Battalion was organized in Belleville, Ontario and
later absorbed by the 6th Reserve Battalion to provide for
reinforcements in the field. Love reports that the 6th
Reserve Battalion trained the 39th and reinforced the 2nd, 21st,
and 38th Infantry Battalions, as well as the P.P.C.L.I, in
France. There are no reports on the
39th Infantry Battalion in the Nicholson text.
From Library and
Archives Canada:
| Part II Daily Orders - 39th Infantry Battalion
1915/07-1917/01. File.
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| List of Officers - 39th Infantry Battalion
1916/10-1916/11. File. |
From CEFSG member Stonetown:
The 39th was authorized by PC 2831 and mobilized 26 December 1914. Based in Belleville, it was raised as a depot battalion and was not intended for service in France as such. Nine militia regiments contributed recruits including the 40th Northumberland Regiment which sent about 200 men.
The battalion sailed 24 June 1915 from Montreal on the SS Missanabie and on arrival in England, was initially stationed in Shorncliffe and from 24 September 1915 onwards, at West Sandling. Used as a reinforcing unit, the 39th was merged with the 154th and 155th Battalions and then used to form the 6th Reserve Battalion on 4 January 1917.
A total of 921 'Originals' from the 39th were drafted to eleven different battalions in France with the largest drafts going to the 18th Battalion (105), 21st Battalion (150) and 26th Battalion (112).
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War Diary Entries:
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none
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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:
| see newspaper item
1 and item 2
related to riot, as provided and posted on the CEFSG Forum |
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